about eight hours , as I was afterwards assuredassure; and it was no wonder , for the physicians , by the emperor ’s orderorder, had mingledminglea sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine .
I can assureassureyou I have become the victim of an almost unaccountable craving .
His countenance became intolerably fervidfervid, as he oratorically assuredassureme -- gesticulatinggesticulatewith a long ruler at the other end of the room -- that if his services in the morning were useful , how indispensable , then , in the afternoon ?
The cost of living -- ordinary plain , or garden living nowadays is , I assureassureyou , if you do not know ---- ” “ My dear child , ” interruptedinterruptTuppence , “ there is nothing I do _ not _ know about the cost of living .
He assuredassureme it was all rubbish , and exhortedexhortme , with his dying breathbreath, to continue in the good old way , to follow his steps , and those of his father before him , and let my highest ambition be to walk honestly through the world , looking neither to the right hand nor to the left , and to transmit the paternal acres to my children in , at least , as flourishing a condition as he left them to me .
Also let me assureassureyou that the politician is not dangerously imminent ; and that , anyway , he is a very desirable politician , even though his views on tariff and single tax and trade-unionism do not exactly coincide with Jervis 's .
I have n't seen Jervis 's wonderful Scotch doctor yet , but I assureassureyou that he will have to be VERY wonderful to make up for the rest of these people , especially the kindergarten teacher .
The transition is a keen one , I assureassureyou , from a schoolmaster to a sailor , and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it .