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He lowered his hand with the same slow precision and folded it with the other, all the time probing Donnegan with his difficult eyes. "Unfortunately most unfortunately, it is impossible for me to accommodate you, Mr. Donnegan." The reply was not flippant, but quick. "Not at all. I am the easiest person in the world to accommodate." The big man smiled sadly.
I have very little more to say of him; for he had scarcely begun to enjoy his high honours when Death came to laugh at him for the sweating labour he had taken to acquire them. On the 11th of June, 1723, the King went to reside at Meudon, ostensibly in order that the chateau of Versailles might be cleared in reality, to accommodate Cardinal Dubois.
Friends would accompany him, but not in any number. The yacht was not large enough to accommodate comfortably more than one or two guests at a time. "You may have heard of Sandyseal," the Captain wrote, "as one of the places which have lately been found out by the doctors. They are recommending the air to patients suffering from nervous disorders all over England.
Their father was at the station to meet them and took them directly to their grandfather's home. As this home was too small to accommodate them long, their new home was waiting for them. Grandmother Hill received them with open arms. She felt much more contented to have them where she could know all was well.
So he threw himself into an approved scientific attitude, and, in brief, emphatic language, expressed his urgent anxiety to accommodate any classical young gentleman who chose to consider himself a candidate for his attentions.
My father's dwelling did not equal the height of one story, and might be easily comprised in one-fourth of those buildings which here were designed to accommodate the menials. My heart dictated the comparison between my own condition and that of the proprietors of this domain. How wide and how impassable was the gulf by which we were separated!
What do you say to our makin' a party to visit the 'Bachelor beaver's dam, and see your museum, fixins, betterments, and what not?" "Why," said he, "I should like it above all things; but " "But what?" said I. "But I am afraid, as you must stay all night, if you go, my poor wigwam won't accommodate so many with beds."
Though I never had with me less than a half a score of led horses, I had such an affection for the sorrel that I preferred to wait until it was shod, rather than accommodate myself to a nag of less easy paces; and would allow my household to precede me, while I stayed behind with at most a guard or two, my valet, and a page.
The room where the prisoners dine is a large hall capable of seating fully twelve hundred men. Each table is long enough to accommodate twenty men, and resembles an ordinary school-desk. There are no table-cloths or napkins; nothing but a plain, clean board. The table furniture consists of a tin quart cup, a small pan of the same precious metal, which holds the hash, an iron knife, fork and spoon.
So far as mistakes have been made on the side of those who believe it, they have issued from forgetting that fact more than from any other one cause. On the other hand, it has sometimes occurred that believers in the Bible have been quite too eager to accommodate themselves to purely passing phases of objection to it.
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