Obliged
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George listened, and a neighbouring clock immediately
obliged.
None of us spoke for a while; but, at length, George turned to the new comer, and said:"I beg your pardon, I hope you will forgive the liberty that we - perfect strangers in the neighbourhood - are taking, but my friend here and myself would be so much
obliged
if you would tell us how you caught that trout up there."
At first she believed them; but there was occasionally a general, who was
obliged
to do justice to his enemy in order to obtain justice for himself; and Frances became somewhat skeptical on the subject of the inefficiency of her countrymen.
In the meanwhile, great numbers of the English, taking advantage of the smoke and confusion in the field, were enabled to get in the rear of the body of their countrymen, which still preserved its order in a line parallel to the wood, but which had been
obliged
to hold its fire, from the fear of injuring friends as well as foes.
In this position, the impatient trooper well understood that brave men could never be assailed by cavalry with success, and he was reluctantly
obliged
to hover near them, without seeing any opportunity of stopping their slow but steady march to the beach.
"I have much reason to be
obliged
to the cap," said Mason dryly.
England herself has none, but England is overflowing with physical force, a part of which she is
obliged
to maintain in the shape of paupers.
"They do a little at it; but they are
obliged
to be sparing among their own people.
Take awful warning from the visit therefore - "Here the dialogue was interrupted by a peremptory summons to the sutler to prepare the morning's repast, and they were
obliged
to separate; the woman secretly hoping that the interest the sergeant manifested was more earthly than he imagined; and the man, bent on saving a soul from the fangs of the dark spirit that was prowling through their camp in quest of victims.
But the friendship or enmity of Mrs. Flanagan was alike indifferent to the surgeon, who could think of nothing but his loss; and Lawton was
obliged
to explain to his friend the apparent manner in which it had happened.
Lawton was ready for the excursion; and mounting, they were soon on the road, though the surgeon was
obliged
to submit to a few more jokes from the washerwoman, before he could get out of hearing.
"Really, sir, the ladies are infinitely
obliged
to you, for attributing folly to them as part of their nature."
"I'm
obliged
to you for the rescue, and equally indebted to the motive."
The repeated applications of the surgeon, to be permitted to use professional aid, were steadily rejected, and, at length, he was
obliged
unwillingly to retire.
The road which it was necessary for the peddler and the English captain to travel, in order to reach the shelter of the hills, lay, for a half mile, in full view from the door of the building that had so recently been the prison of the latter; running for the whole distance over the rich plain, that spreads to the very foot of the mountains, which here rise in a nearly perpendicular ascent from their bases; it then turned short to the right, and was
obliged
to follow the windings of nature, as it won its way into the bosom of the Highlands.
Nearly an hour did she struggle with the numerous difficulties that she was
obliged
to overcome, when, having been repeatedly exhausted with her efforts, and, in several instances, in great danger from falls, she succeeded in gaining the small piece of tableland on the summit.
To this appeal the youth felt unwillingly
obliged
to submit; and they continued their course towards the city.
If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is _obliged_ to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not
obliged
to do.
Yet he felt
obliged
to speak up and say: "Answer the gentleman, Thomas--don't be afraid."
There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel
obliged
to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
The ladies also gave me clothes frequently of their own or their children's; some stockings, some petticoats, some gowns, some one thing, some another, and these my old woman managed for me like a mere mother, and kept them for me,
obliged
me to mend them, and turn them and twist them to the best advantage, for she was a rare housewife.
I was not alarmed at the news, having a full satisfaction that I should be otherwise provided for; and especially considering that I had reason every day to expect I should be with child, and that then I should be
obliged
to remove without any pretences for it.
It struck me to the heart when he told me this, for though it was most rational to think I would not deny him, yet I knew in my own conscience I must deny him, and I saw my ruin in my being
obliged
to do so; but I knew it was my business to talk otherwise then, so I interrupted him in his story thus.
First of all, I am not
obliged
to give me any reason at all; on the other hand, I may tell them I am married already, and stop there, and that will be a full stop too to him, for he can have no reason to ask one question after it.'
I cannot say, however, that anything he said made impression enough upon me so as to give me any thought of the matter, till he told me at last very plainly, that if I refused, he was sorry to add that he could never go on with me in that station as we stood before; that though he loved me as well as ever, and that I was as agreeable to him as ever, yet sense of virtue had not so far forsaken him as to suffer him to lie with a woman that his brother courted to make his wife; and if he took his leave of me, with a denial in this affair, whatever he might do for me in the point of support, grounded on his first engagement of maintaining me, yet he would not have me be surprised that he was
obliged
to tell me he could not allow himself to see me any more; and that, indeed, I could not expect it of him.
But there was no remedy; he would have me, and I was not
obliged
to tell him that I was his brother's whore, though I had no other way to put him off; so I came gradually into it, to his satisfaction, and behold we were married.
Modesty forbids me to reveal the secrets of the marriage-bed, but nothing could have happened more suitable to my circumstances than that, as above, my husband was so fuddled when he came to bed, that he could not remember in the morning whether he had had any conversation with me or no, and I was
obliged
to tell him he had, though in reality he had not, that I might be sure he could make to inquiry about anything else.
He was so
obliged
by the manner, and so pleased with the sum, for he had been in a terrible fright lest it had been nothing at all, that he accepted it very thankfully.
He began with a calm expostulation upon my being so resolute to go to England; I defended it, and one hard word bringing on another, as is usual in all family strife, he told me I did not treat him as if he was my husband, or talk of my children as if I was a mother; and, in short, that I did not deserve to be used as a wife; that he had used all the fair means possible with me; that he had argued with all the kindness and calmness that a husband or a Christian ought to do, and that I made him such a vile return, that I treated him rather like a dog than a man, and rather like the most contemptible stranger than a husband; that he was very loth to use violence with me, but that, in short, he saw a necessity of it now, and that for the future he should be
obliged
to take such measures as should reduce me to my duty.
The looking after my cargo of goods soon after
obliged
me to take a journey to Bristol, and during my attendance upon that affair I took the diversion of going to the Bath, for as I was still far from being old, so my humour, which was always gay, continued so to an extreme; and being now, as it were, a woman of fortune though I was a woman without a fortune, I expected something or other might happen in my way that might mend my circumstances, as had been my case before.
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