FORE:I wish you would flirt with him yourself, Emmeline, he said, and take him away from Alice. Perhaps you do: some of these clergy flirt with every decent-looking woman within reach, and youre twice as handsome as Alice."In the books I've read," Arthur resumed, "there's generally a chap whom you might regard as being not much good at anything and yet pretty decent."
FORE:They descended the river to the sea, and then turned to the northward. Nothing of moment occurred as the steamer moved along on her course, and on the morning of the third day from Shanghai they were entering the mouth of the Pei-ho River. The Doctor pointed out the famous Taku forts through the thin mist that overhung the water, and the boys naturally asked what the Taku forts had done to make themselves famous.
FORE:"It's very hard," the Curate complained, "that my infirmity should have prevented me from seeing more. The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak."
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THREE:You neednt be. I told him he wanted to{133} make me pay a big doctors bill for him instead of his paying a little one. He deserved that for being so idiotic as to come out. Read the letter, please, which we stopped in the middle of.These pathetic reflections had the effect of really working on Lady Keelings feelings, and her throat tied itself into knots.
