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"And what will make it worth your while to let it alone?" said Mary; for she saw that she must either get into a quarrel or give up her habitation, or comply with the conditions of this provoking old woman. Half a crown, Goody Grope said, was the least she could be content to take.
When men go off the stage so early, it scarce seems a noticeable thing in their epitaphs, whether they had been wise or silly in their lifetime. I am glad the snuff and Pi-pos's books please. "Goody Two Shoes" is almost out of print. Mrs.
And even Frisky Squirrel was no spryer at carrying beechnuts or any other goody to his secret cupboard than little white-footed Dickie Deer Mouse. It was no wonder that Dickie could be cheerful right in the dead of winter, when he had a fine store of the very best that the fields and forest yielded, to keep him sleek and fat and happy.
After mention of each article by P'ing Erh, goody Liu muttered the name of Buddha, so already she had repeated Buddha's name several thousands of times. But when she saw the heap of presents which P'ing Erh too bestowed on her, and the little ostentation with which she did it, she promptly smiled. "Miss!" she said, "what are you saying? Could I ever disdain such nice gifts as these!
'There! she said, pointing to the top of the square tower over the entrance to the hall, from which we had watched the arrival of the guests: it rose about nine feet only above where we now stood in the gutter 'I know I left the door open when we came down. I did it on purpose. I hate Goody Wilson. Lucky, you see! that is if you have a head. And if you haven't, it's all the same: I have.
"No one" with a rebellious blush, and the truthful addition "I see much to admire and like in many persons, but none quite strong and good enough to suit me. My heroes are old-fashioned, you know." "Prigs, like Guy Carleton, Count Altenberg, and John Halifax I know the pattern you goody girls like," sneered Charlie, who preferred the Guy Livingston, Beauclerc, and Rochester style.
I declare to you, Smith, I would rather work in the docks, and leave the churching to the softs and dandies; for then I should be able to respect myself as giving work for my bread, instead of drawing so many pounds a-year for talking goody to old wives and sentimental young ladies; for over men who are worth anything, such a man has no influence.
Ah! there was great fervour in Stephen Orpin's tones when he said, as he often did "Men and women, I do not come here to make you good, which, in the estimation of more than one half of the so-called Christian world, means goody. My desire is to open your eyes to see Jesus, the Saviour from sin.
"Hadn't you better tell the other story, while you wait for him?" said Demi, anxious that no time should be lost. "I really have nothing but a little tale about a wood-box," said Mrs. Jo, seeing that Rob had still seven corns to eat. "Is there a boy in it?" "It is all boy." "Is it true?" asked Demi. "Every bit of it." "Goody! tell on, please."
The "mother dear" probably answered her boy in the form of cakes and "goody," for there were none of her letters among this set; but a whole collection of the rector's, to whom the Latin in his boy's letters was like a trumpet to the old war-horse.
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