Amelia -- Volume 2

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d that in terms not only of approbation but even of affection. She called him her clever serjeant, and her dear serjeant, repeated often that he was t

if he could find a wife now to help him to two or three hundred more, I think he might easily get a c

es who would refuse him, if he had but a proper opportunity of soliciting them. The colonel and the lady both would be better off than with one

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would be both

would rather leave the two first syllable

Though the fellow hath the bravery of a lion, he hath the meekness of a lamb. I can

been my defence).-Another instance of his goodness, which greatly recommended him to my father, and which I have loved him for ever since, was this: my father was a great lover of birds, and strictly forbad the spoiling of their nests. Poor Joe was one day caught upon a tree, and, being concluded guilty, was severely lashed for it; but it was afterwards discovered that another boy, a friend of Joe's, had robbed the nest of its young ones, and poor Joe had climbed the tree in order to restore them, notwithstanding which, he submitted to the punishment rather than he would impeach his co

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ow, cried out, "Let me die if it is not my lord! what shall I do? I must be at home to him; b

came running into the room, and said, "There was a prodigious great gentleman coming up- stairs." She was immedi

, though she knew nothing of the town, she had had a genteel education, and kept the best c

oned your affair where I promised you, and I have no doubt of my success. One may easily perceive, you know, from the manner of people's behaving upon such occasions; and, indeed, when I

his art of promising is the economy of a great man's pride, a sort of good husbandry in conferring favours, by which they receive tenfold in acknowledgments for every

and my lord began to entertain the ladies with some of that elegant discours

igher degree of respect, and was so very polite, and so very distant, that she herself was pleased, and at his departure, which was not till he had far exceeded

I have not the least relish for those very fine gentlemen; what the world generally calls politeness, I term insincerity; and I am more charmed

ry proper for some folks to wear in their coat of arms; but the generality of the world w

t she said, thought proper to make some apology, whi

ing that such is the ambitious temper of beauty, that it m

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well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place. This observation, however, I humbly su