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'At this command, half a dozen officious goblins, with a perpetual smile upon their faces, whom Gabriel Grub imagined to be courtiers, on that account, hastily disappeared, and presently returned with a goblet of liquid fire, which they presented to the king.
Put down your hat, Sam, and let me explain my meaning, a little more at length.''Won't presently do, sir?' inquired Sam.
By the bye--'As Smangle pronounced the last three words, he stopped suddenly, reclosed the door which he had opened, and, walking softly back to Mr. Pickwick, stepped close up to him on tiptoe, and said, in a very soft whisper--'You couldn't make it convenient to lend me half-a-crown till the latter end of next week, could you?'Mr. Pickwick could scarcely forbear smiling, but managing to preserve his gravity, he drew forth the coin, and placed it in Mr. Smangle's palm; upon which, that gentleman, with many nods and winks, implying profound mystery, disappeared in quest of the three strangers, with whom he presently returned; and having coughed thrice, and nodded as many times, as an assurance to Mr. Pickwick that he would not forget to pay, he shook hands all round, in an engaging manner, and at length took himself off.
All this, Mr. Raddle heard with great submission, and presently returned to the parlour in a most lamb-like manner.
See who there is in the travellers' room, Sam.'Mr. Weller departed on his errand, and presently returned to say that there was only a gentleman with one eye; and that he and the landlord were drinking a bowl of bishop together.
'You shall have this presently,' said Pott, looking up, pale with rage, and quivering in his speech, from the same cause.
Having got thus far, he looked about him again, and sighed grievously; with that, he walked softly into the bar, and presently returning with the tumbler half full of pine-apple rum, advanced to the kettle which was singing gaily on the hob, mixed his grog, stirred it, sipped it, sat down, and taking a long and hearty pull at the rum-and-water, stopped for breath.
I'll run out presently, and get a bottle of soda.
Here the old gentleman stopped to laugh; and having done so to his heart's content, presently resumed--'But this is not the best of it, it seems.
'May I ask what it is?''Presently, ma'am, presently,' said the stranger, not having yet removed his eyes from her countenance.
Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than before.
"You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones.
You may walk to the cab, and I shall be with you presently."
"They may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently.
"Here it is," said he presently:"'Ku Klux Klan.
You'll know all about it presently.
Presently he came to himself once more, very weary and pale-looking.
This he unpacked with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble lodging-house mahogany.
Presently she emerged from the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw that she carried the precious coronet in her hands.
Last night after tea, when you and mama went out of the room, they were whispering and talking together as fast as could be, and he seemed to be begging something of her, and presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book."
"Is anything the matter with her?" cried Mrs. Dashwood as she entered--"is she ill?""I hope not," he replied, trying to look cheerful; and with a forced smile presently added, "It is I who may rather expect to be ill--for I am now suffering under a very heavy disappointment!"
"I am going into the village to see my horses," said he, "as you are not yet ready for breakfast; I shall be back again presently."
But then again, the dread of having been too civil, too encouraging herself, probably came over her, for she presently added, "Do you not think they are something in Miss Morton's style of painting, Ma'am?--She DOES paint most delightfully!--How
"I think, Elinor," she presently added, "we must employ Edward to take care of us in our return to Barton.
"Fanny is in her own room, I suppose," said he:--"I will go to her presently, for I am sure she will not have the least objection in the world to seeing YOU.-- Very far from it, indeed.
Her voice sunk with the word, but presently reviving she added, "I am thankful to find that I can look with so little pain on the spot!--shall we ever talk on that subject, Elinor?"--hesitatingly it was said.--"Or will it be wrong?--I
THAT," he presently added, "might perhaps be in HIS head when the acquaintance between them first began.
She was presently in full charge, and in that long, bare ward where she strengthened so many sufferers for the last parting, where she lived with death and dealt with it, where she went about softly, soothing unspeakable pain, learning the note of human anguish, hearing no sound but the murmur of suffering or relief, she sounded one night the depths of her own nature, and received from an inward monitor the confirmation of her mission.
Apparently out of a crack in the earth in fact, as he presently perceived, out of a spot where two waves of plain folded in upon each other and contained a village came a pillar of dust, the heart of which was a bullock-cart.
But he presently found that there were living beings inside the house, with warm hearts and a welcome for him.
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