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As for butterflies, beetles, and those sort of things, he will chase them like a child all day. His house is a regular . I don't recollect the word in English; in Gaelic it is 'tigh neonachais." "Museum?" said I. "Ah, that's it," said she. "He can't have much practice," I said, "if he goes racing and chasing over the country that way, like a run-away engine."
Besides, such is human nature, that to oppose lovers, or to speak against the person beloved, only increases their desire and determination to marry. RUN-AWAY MATCHES. Many a run-away match would never have taken place but for opposition or interference. Parents are mostly to be blamed for these elopements. Their children marry partly out of sprite and to be contrary.
Without even a backward glance she gave warning to those in the house, but cleverly continued her raid upon the crows, laughingly asking the men when she passed them, "if they had come there to search for run-away Christians!" "This way," whispered the host to his two guests when the warning reached him. Leading them to an inner room he made them creep under a bed and covered them with a mat.
There were two flat-topped desks, placed so that their swivel chairs faced across a considerable expanse of surface, two bookkeepers' perches also rigged up to meet the exigencies of run-away affairs, and her own little table with its brand-new typewriting machine. Yet Lilly never entered the rather cold breath of this atmosphere without a sense of haven.
Henry tells of an annoyance at Malbaie that still continues; mongrel dogs ran after their calèche; sometimes one would try to seize the horse by the nose and nearly cause a run-away. Each cur pursued the vehicle and barked himself hoarse, and then, when he retired, his neighbour would take up the task. At length, after this experience had been frequently renewed, they decided to retaliate.
I think I see the urn smoking before me now, and papa wheeling the sopha round, that I might sit between them at the table. Mamma called me Little Run-away, and said it was very well it was only papa. I told her how we frightened the old gardener, and opened my eyes to shew her how he stared, and how my papa made the milliner believe we were going to Gretna Green.
How fair the sight! Approach the twirling couples. They talk as they whirl. 'Fancy the run-away tailor! is the male's remark, and he expects to be admired for it, and is. 'That make-up Countess his sister, you know didn't you see her? she turned green, says Creation's second effort, almost occupying the place of a rib. 'Isn't there a run-away wife, too? 'Now, you mustn't be naughty!
As twilight was settling down we arrived on schedule time at the white stone station in Granada where carriages stood in waiting to convey us to the hotels. The Spanish drivers strove to surpass each other in speed. Our coachman lashed his horses till they ran like a run-away team.
Run for your life! leap! or you will be a cinder in five minutes, that nothing but a coroner would take for the wreck of a human being! If any gentleman will have the kindness to stop this run-away comparison, I shall be much obliged to him.
Maurice took a fancy to him abroad; however, he was clever enough to save Beatrice's life by stopping a run-away horse. Some people say the accident was the invention of the lovers' own imaginations; however, the parents believed in it, and it turned the scales in his favour; but he has taken himself off, I am thankful to say, and is staying at Lutterton with her uncle.
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