this moment to givegivethem a little sketch of the four sisters , who sat knittingknitaway in the twilight , while the December snowsnowfell quietly without , and the firefirecrackledcracklecheerfully within .
Wherefore , when at midday I metmeetgood Master Wickham rowingrowdown from Henricus to Jamestown , to offer his aid to Master Bucke in his press of business to-morrow , I gavegivethe good man Godspeed , and thought his a fruitful erranderrandand one pleasing to the Lord . ”
She was too weak to resist his wishwish, and she gavegivethe child up .
The old man -- he was white-haired and a little stooped , but with an immense idea of his personal dignity -- gavegiveme his reasons hesitatingly .
But , inasmuch as it has never been my practice to furnish my relatives with an itinerary of my journeys and in this case I anticipatedanticipateopposition to my wishes , I gavegiveout that I was going for a ramble in the Tyrol -- an old haunt of mine -- and propitiatedpropitiateRose ’s wrath by declaringdeclarethat I intended to study the political and social problems of the interesting community which dwells in that neighbourhood .
After the mother 's throes she felt very few sentiments of maternal tenderness : the children were givengiveto nurses , and she played with her dogs .
When he had reachedreachthe age of fourteen a friend of his late father , an agent for a foreign preserved milk firm , having givengivehim an opening as office-boy , he was discovereddiscoverone foggy afternoon , in his chief ’s absence , busy lettingletoff fireworks on the staircase .
In the reign of King John one of them was rich enough to givegivea manor to the Knights Hospitallers ; and in Edward the Second 's time your forefather Brian was summonedsummonto Westminster to attend the great Council there .
When he dieddiehe toldtellhis widder to give it to some smart young feller that had n't got none of his own ; so she gavegiveit to me .
Mrs. Shaw had givengiveway to the presentimentpresentiment, as she expressedexpressit ; and had rather urgedurgeon the marriage , although it was below the expectations which many of Edith 's acquaintances had formed for her , a young and pretty heiress .
She wrotewriteout the recipe for this and gavegiveit to my mother a year or two before she dieddie, but we could never make it as she did .
The author givesgivesome account of himself and family .
One day when he had been calledcallto the castle the butler had shownshowhim the marks of the soldiers ' slugs in the wood of the door and had givengivehim a piece of shortbread that the community ate .
Silently , in a dreamdreamshe had comecometo him after her deathdeath, her wasted body within its loose brown graveclothes givinggiveoff an odour of wax and rosewood , her breath , that had bentbentupon him , mute , reproachful , a faint odourodourof wetted ashes .
I thoughtthinkof the terms we now kept with these heathen ; of how they came and went familiarly amongst us , spying out our weakness , and losing the salutary awe which that noblest captain had struckstrikeinto their souls ; of how many were employed as hunters to bring down deer for lazy masters ; of how , breakingbreakthe law , and that not secretly , we gavegivethem knives and arms , a soldier 's bread , in exchangeexchangefor pelts and pearls ; of how their emperor was forever sending us smooth messages ; of how their lips smiled and their eyes frowned .
Edith had rather objectedobjectto this arrangement , for Captain Lennox was expected to arrive by a late train this very evening ; but , although she was a spoiled child , she was too careless and idle to have a very strong will of her own , and gavegiveway when she foundfindthat her mother had absolutely orderedorderthose extra delicacies of the season which are always supposed to be efficacious against immoderate grief at farewell dinners .
She smiledsmile, and gavegivesome message to an elderly man in white shirt-sleeves , who had followed her to the door .
Her height and massiveness in the low room gavegiveher the look of a huge sibyl , while the strange fragrancefragranceof the mysterious herb blew in from the little garden .
It gave her no extra pleasure that any one should be left in the cold ; and when she roseriseto go , she turnedturnback and gavegivethe two outsiders a nervous little bowbow.
And his father had givengivehim two five-shilling pieces for pocket money .
The yellow , mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead , and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host , and so I givegiveyou the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies .
There were people on the ship with whom he had easily consortedconsort-- so far as ease could up to now be imputed to him -- and who for the most part plungedplungestraight into the current that set from the landing-stage to London ; there were others who had invitedinvitehim to a tryst at the inn and had even invokedinvokehis aid for a " look round " at the beauties of Liverpool ; but he had stolenstealaway from every one alike , had kept no appointment and renewed no acquaintance , had been indifferently aware of the number of persons who esteemed themselves fortunate in being , unlike himself , " metmeet, " and had even independently , unsociably , alone , without encounter or relapse and by mere quiet evasionevasion, givengivehis afternoon and evening to the immediate and the sensible .
Pulls down ninety thousand a year , and if he 's thirty-five I 'll -- " " Well , you askedaskmy advice , " interruptedinterrupthis mother 's voicevoicewith that muffled effect which is caused by a skirt being slipped over the head , " and I gavegiveit .