Farther
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You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get
farther
back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other.
I was glad that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was
farther
from danger when he was away from home.
At the
farther
end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire.
"In that case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this wind-swept market-place," said he."But pray tell me, before we go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting."
We even traced them as far as Reading, but could get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that showed that they were very old hands.
"He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to say,
farther
up the path than is necessary to reach the door?""Yes, he did."
I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
She was first called to observe and approve him farther, by a reflection which Elinor chanced one day to make on the difference between him and his sister.
But
farther
than this you must not believe.
But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no
farther
than their maintenance for six months at Norland.
Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing
farther
to ask."--"Elinor," cried Marianne, "is this fair? is this just?
She played over every favourite song that she had been used to play to Willoughby, every air in which their voices had been oftenest joined, and sat at the instrument gazing on every line of music that he had written out for her, till her heart was so heavy that no
farther
sadness could be gained; and this nourishment of grief was every day applied.
Elinor thought this generosity overstrained, considering her sister's youth, and urged the matter farther, but in vain; common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
The subject was continued no farther; and Marianne remained thoughtfully silent, till a new object suddenly engaged her attention.
her curiosity was unavailing, for no
farther
notice was taken of Mr. Ferrars's name by Miss Steele when alluded to, or even openly mentioned by Sir John.
She remembered too, her own surprise at the time, at his mentioning nothing
farther
of those friends, at his total silence with respect even to their names.
Fortunately for her, they had now reached the cottage, and the conversation could be continued no
farther.
And without
farther
ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.
"I should be undeserving of the confidence you have honoured me with, if I felt no desire for its continuance, or no
farther
curiosity on its subject.
Believe me," and Elinor spoke it with the truest sincerity, "nothing could be
farther
from my intention than to give you such an idea.
After very little
farther
discourse, it was finally settled that the invitation should be fully accepted.
"I am writing home, Marianne," said Elinor; "had not you better defer your letter for a day or two?""I am NOT going to write to my mother," replied Marianne, hastily, and as if wishing to avoid any
farther
inquiry.
Elinor, for her sister's sake, could not press the subject farther, and she hoped it was not required of her for Willoughby's; since, though Marianne might lose much, he could gain very little by the enforcement of the real truth.
"You have something to tell me of Mr. Willoughby, that will open his character
farther.
"You shall; and, to be brief, when I quitted Barton last October,--but this will give you no idea--I must go
farther
back.
THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being
farther
augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
Elinor would not humour her by
farther
opposition.
"And do you not think it more likely that she should leave it to her daughters, than to us?""Her daughters are both exceedingly well married, and therefore I cannot perceive the necessity of her remembering them
farther.
They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still
farther
by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.
Elinor, having once delivered her opinion on William's side, by which she offended Mrs. Ferrars and Fanny still more, did not see the necessity of enforcing it by any
farther
assertion; and Marianne, when called on for hers, offended them all, by declaring that she had no opinion to give, as she had never thought about it.
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