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‘I thought,’ continued he, ‘I’d just look in upon you as I passed, and taste your home-brewed ale. I’ve been to call on Mrs. Graham.’ ‘Have you, indeed?’ He nodded gravely, and added with awful emphasis—‘I thought it incumbent upon me to do so.’ ‘Really!’ ejaculated my mother. ‘Why so, Mr. Millward?’ asked I.
I don’t think Collingwood was trying to be ‘fresh.’ Of course, he shouldn’t have lost his temper and banged the ball at your door—but I think that hardly showed malice.” “It seemed to me it was insolent—and disorderly. I felt the fellows all thought they could do anything with me and I would be afraid to report them. And so I thought I’d show them I wasn’t afraid.”
We followed it for that length of time across the icy mountains, Siurd and I. I thought I’d die." "Cold work, eh?" Stent nodded, pocketed his sketch, fished out a packet of bread and chocolate from his pocket and, rolling over luxuriously in the sun among the alpine roses, lunched leisurely, flat on his back.
Aunt Dilsey hadn’t expected all this, and the poor creature burst into tears, saying, "Lord bless the sweet miss! I’d die for her this minute, I would."
"You know Horace Holloway; we were up at his place once for the night. Don’t you remember?" "I remember his place well enough; but he hadn’t got in when we came, and hadn’t got up when we left, so his features aren’t as distinctly imprinted on my memory as they might be." "That’s so," said Burnett, pushing aside the curtains that concealed the foot of the wee stair; "I’d forgotten.
"That ain’t no great news to me," said Joshua. "Joshua Whittlesey, you make my blood boil. Things is goin’ rackin’ and ruinin’ at a great pace here an’ you as cold as a cauliflower over it all." Joshua sorted potatoes phlegmatically and said nothing. "S’posin’ I’d ’a’ wanted to marry him?" Joshua continued to sort potatoes. "Or, s’posin’ you wanted to marry her?" Joshua looked up quickly.
If I’d only been an athlete instead of a student in college!” sighed Irving whimsically.
I made up that anecdote and told it to a schoolfellow called Korovkin, it was at Moscow.... The anecdote is so characteristic that I couldn’t have taken it from anywhere. I thought I’d forgotten it ... but I’ve unconsciously recalled it—I recalled it myself—it was not you telling it!
I’d as soon she’d have him as anybody, and she’s worthy of him too, for if she can love such a hideous old clown as I am, she’ll stick to such a nice man as Dr. Lacey through thick and thin. But what do you say to goin’, Tempest?" Julia had at first thought that nothing could induce her to become a pupil of Mr. Miller, but his allusion to Dr. Lacey decided her otherwise.
“They sometimes call ’em duckies, they sometimes call ’em pets, And sometimes they refer to ’em as dears They live on little matters that a gentleman forgets, In a little world of giggles and of tears; There are different varieties from which a man may choose, There are sorts and shapes and sizes without end, But the kind I’d pick myself is the kind you introduce By the simple title of ‘my lady friend.’ ”
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