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He knew who was safe and who was shaky, as if by a kind of instinct, and he knew where and when to invest, and where and when not to invest, as few men did. 'You can't get at me, he would say; for, old-fashioned as he was, he used a little of the new-fashioned slang to give spice and vigour to his conversation.
Probably also it was in view of this time, seen from afar in silent approach, that, from the very moment when he took his education into his own hands, he had paid thorough attention to Richard's bodily as well as mental accomplishment, encouraging him in all manly sports, such as wrestling, boxing, and riding to hounds, with the more martial training of sword-exercises, with and without the target, and shooting with the carbine and the new-fashioned flint-lock pistols.
She meant, on this occasion, to resist his friendly tyranny, having so little inclination for sleep, and hoping to find peace of mind and distraction in this elaborate embroidery of gold thread and many-coloured silks, which was destined to adorn her father's person, on the facings of a new-fashioned doublet.
So the new school and reading-room arose amidst the sneers and loudly- expressed disgust of the majority of the population; the proprietors of the beer-shops being specially bitter in their denunciations of this uncalled-for innovation on the good old times and habits, so long the favoured lot of a primitive and unsophisticated people, who had been quite content when left to their own devices, and could do perfectly well without these new-fashioned schemes, if only good people would just let them alone.
I should not have minded that myself, but it would have grieved the Earl, and I am not one of the new-fashioned ones who care naught for what their fathers may say. He has been praising you up to the skies this morning, I can tell you I don't mean only as to the fire but about other things and says he hopes we shall be great friends, and I am sure I hope so too, and think so.
One picked him up another his hat-crown a third his whip a fourth his gloves while Margaret, the housemaid, rushed to the rescue with her private bottle of sal volatile and John, the under-butler, began to extricate him from the new-fashioned neckcloth he had made of his hat.
"New-fashioned!" cried the parson, almost indignantly, for he had a great disdain of new fashions. Depend on it, donkeys were allowed to eat thistles there." "Very possibly," said the squire, dryly. "But Hazeldeau, though a very pretty village, is not Paradise.
'Good old ladies, they have always been very kind to me, and petted me exceedingly when I was a little child, but for the rest still seeing Albinia's anxious look 'Oh! they would not think of it; I don't believe they could argue; they are not like the new-fashioned Roman Catholics of whom you are thinking, madame. 'And are there no enthusiastic young novices?
"Well, Kitty, I don't pretend to understand this new-fashioned way of being 'off' and 'on' with a lover at the same time. Did you take me from papa simply to tell me this?" "No; I thought perhaps you might like to devote a few moments to papa's daughter. Papa has no hair to crimp and no braids to make.
But with all the new-fashioned talk about education and work for women, which then had just begun, nice girls were not quite so sure as they used to be that to reclaim a prodigal, or consolidate a penitence, was their mission in life.
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