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You want it to be a home for the mind as well as the body, do you not? I heard of a young lawyer who put aside a little of every fee as a sinking-fund for a library. He and his wife bought books with that not books for the office, but books for their home.
The courier arrived at Naples; and Rodolfo, eager to become possessed of so beautiful a wife as his father had described, took advantage of the opportunity offered by four galleys which were ready to sail for Spain; and two days after the receipt of the letter he embarked with his two comrades, who were still with him.
If he is in serious trouble I should be glad to do anything within my power to help him." "Even if it cost, we will say, about six hundred English pounds?" Agatha gazed at him in bewildered astonishment. "There are some twenty dollars in my possession which your wife handed me not long ago." "Still, if you had the money, you would be glad to help him and would not regret it afterwards?"
He was more proud of her bulk than of his own height, and used to jeer at his Hottentot leader for the scraggy appearance of his weaker half, possibly with the kindly intention of reducing the number, or severity, of the poor creature's beatings. I do not believe Jan ever beat his wife, though I think she was as lazy a woman as could be found.
This was a pretty hard hit; and I felt a little "riled up," as the Yankees say, but I concluded that the uttering of a few sharp sayings to my wife, under the circumstances, would not prove my claim to being a gentleman, especially against the facts of the case; so I cooled down, and walked home rather silently, and in not the best humour with myself.
The next time the Skrellings came they found Karlsefni's men ready and fled helter-skelter into the woods. Karlsefni and his party remained there throughout the winter, but in the spring Karlsefni announced that he did not intend to remain there longer, for he wished to return with his wife and son to Greenland.
What recruit can afterwards remember which argument of the skilful sergeant did most to melt his discretion into valor? As the Cheap Jack and his wife hastened home from the mop, Sal had some difficulty in restraining her husband's impatience to examine the pocket-book as they walked along. Prudence prevailed, however, and it was not opened till they were at home and alone.
He found it no great task to comfort the woman and children of the fugitive Jack. They were well fed and had the skipper's word that they should never lack food and clothing. He was not surprised to learn from the deserted wife that the man had been a bully at home as well as abroad. For his own part, he had never thought very highly of Foxey Jack Quinn.
The following year the political disturbances interfered with the opera performances at Cassel, and caused him much annoyance. In 1834 he lost his wife, but his work of composition proceeded with vigour.
Yes, there they were, Hegner and his wife, at the end of a row of chairs, a long way down; she looking very pretty and graceful, instinctively well-dressed in her grey muslin Sunday gown and wide floppy hat looking, indeed, "quite the lady," as more than one of her envious neighbours had said to themselves when seeing her go by on her husband's arm.
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