She tellstellme that she has , for many years past , been in continual expectation of making a journey to England , which prevented her writing for information concerning this melancholy subject , by giving her hopes of making personal inquiries ; but family occurrences have still detaineddetainher in France , which country she now sees no prospect of quitting .
Afterward , in the churchyard , between the services , the more timorous began to telltellof divers portents which they had observed , and to recountrecountold tales of how the savages distressed us in the Starving Time .
His work was in a way political , he toldtellWinnie once .
He gotgetback home barely in season to help Jim , the small colored boy , sawseenext-day 's wood and splitsplitthe kindlings before supper -- at least he was there in time to telltellhis adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work .
He toldtellme I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing — viz .
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 .
And now I ’ll telltellyou another thing , and that is , that for years and years I have heard rumours of a great white race which is supposed to have its home somewhere up in this direction , and I have a mind to see if there is any truth in them .
Now she had got a start , and she wentgoon and toldtellme all about the good place .
I toldtellyou to stay in the store and not to come out .
I toldtellher she would find the nice things of London without the horrid streets that depress one so . ”
This put my mother into a great passionpassion; she toldtellme she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject ; that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt ; and that she wonderedwonderhow I could think of any such thing after the discoursediscourseI had had with my father , and such kind and tender expressionsexpressionas she knew my father had used to me ; and that , in short , if I would ruin myself , there was no help for me ; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it ; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction ; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not .
— He ca n’t wear them , Buck Mulligan toldtellhis face in the mirror .
Chapter 1 Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow comingcomedown along the road and this moocow that was comingcomedown along the road metmeeta nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ... His father toldtellhim that story : his father lookedlookat him through a glass : he had a hairy face .
After this he pressedpressme earnestly , and in the most affectionate manner , not to play the young man , nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature , and the station of life I was born in , seemed to have provided against ; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread ; that he would do well for me , and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me ; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world , it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it ; and that he should have nothing to answer for , having thus discharged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt ; in a word , that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed , so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away ; and to close all , he toldtellme I had my elder brother for an example , to whom he had used the same earnest persuasionspersuasionto keep him from going into the Low Country wars , but could not prevail , his young desires prompting him to runruninto the army , where he was killedkill; and though he saidsayhe would not cease to pray for me , yet he would venture to say to me , that if I did take this foolish step , God would not bless me , and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery .
When my convivial host discovereddiscoverthat he had toldtellme so much , and that I was prone to doubtfulness , his foolish pride assumed the tasktaskthe old vintage had commencedcommence, and so he unearthedunearthwritten evidence in the form of musty manuscript , and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative .
My father toldtellhim no , very little company , the more was the pity .
Therefore she diddoas she was toldtell, and diddoit with such nervous hands that her hair ( which was luxuriant and beautiful ) fellfallall about her face .
Farther down , before one of the cottages , a lady in black was walkingwalkdemurely up and down , tellingtellher beads .
I was in the utmost astonishment , and roaredroarso loud , that they all ranrunback in a fright ; and some of them , as I was afterwards toldtell, were hurthurtwith the fallsfallthey got by leapingleapfrom my sides upon the ground .
“ This son of mine , ” he heardhearher telltella room full of awestruck , admiring women one day , “ is entirely sophisticated and quite charming -- but delicate -- we 're all delicate ; _ here _ , you know . ”
That book was mademakeby Mr. Mark Twain , and he toldtellthe truth , mainly .
“ They have accents , my dear , ” she toldtellAmory , “ not Southern accents or Boston accents , not an accent attached to any locality , just an accent ” -- she became dreamydreamy.
He could telltellus only what the others had -- a land of women -- no men -- babies , but all girls .
There was scant love between the savages and myself , -- it was answeranswerenough when I toldtellhim my name .
“ My friend Blakeney , ” saidsayhe , addressingaddressthe old man , “ toldtellme I could be of service to you : be so kind then , dear Sir , as to point out some way in which I can relieve the anxiety of your heart and increase the pleasures of my own . ”
Then she toldtellme all about the bad place , and I saidsayI wished I was there .
" I telltellyou , Edward , " saidsaymy father with some severity , " we must judge men not so much by what they do , as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do .
He toldtellme that there was another river -- “ over there , short river , sweet water , red and blue . ”
He toldtellme it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand , or of aspiring , superior fortunes on the other , who went abroad upon adventures , to rise by enterprise , and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road ; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me ; that mine was the middle state , or what might be called the upper station of low life , which he had found , by long experience , was the best state in the world , the most suited to human happiness , not exposed to the miseries and hardships , the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind , and not embarrassed with the pride , luxury , ambition , and envy of the upper part of mankind .
III So , as toldtellin our camp , ran the fanciful story of the Moonstone .