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He could have stepped over the house; but the girl was not hypercritical; she was
satisfied
with the monster, and whispered:"It's a beautiful man--now make me coming along."
At last he was
satisfied
that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in spite of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
Sid seemed
satisfied.
He would have hidden the silver with the gold to wait there till his "revenge" was satisfied, and then he would have had the misfortune to find that money turn up missing.
CHAPTER XXXVTHE reader may rest
satisfied
that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.
It had
satisfied
me and filled my whole life that I could run faster and jump higher than my neighbour; but now all that seemed such a little thing, and I yearned, and yearned, and looked up at the big arching sky, and down at the flat blue sea, and felt that there was something wanting, but could never lay my tongue to what that something was.
The old lady was fully satisfied, and kissed me, spoke cheerfully to me, and bid me take care of my health and want for nothing, and so took her leave.
Her jointure ought to be according to her portion; but what fortune does she bring you?''Nay, as to fortune,' says Robin, 'she is rich enough; I am
satisfied
in that point; but 'tis I that am not able to come up to her terms, and she is positive she will not have me without.'
'My dear,' said I, 'we have been married a fortnight; is it not time to let you know whether you have got a wife with something or with nothing?''Your own time for that, my dear,' says he; 'I am
satisfied
that I have got the wife I love; I have not troubled you much,' says he, 'with my inquiry after it.'
He told me, that however he was disappointed in his expectations of a fortune, he was not disappointed in a wife, and that I was all to him that a wife could be, and he was more than
satisfied
on the whole when the particulars were put together, but that this offer was so kind, that it was more than he could express.
In the next place, I told her that her being alive was the only support of the discovery, and that while she owned me for her child, and saw reason to be
satisfied
that I was so, nobody else would doubt it; but that if she should die before the discovery, I should be taken for an impudent creature that had forged such a thing to go away from my husband, or should be counted crazed and distracted.
He had continued his altered carriage to me near a month, and we began to live a new kind of life with one another; and could I have
satisfied
myself to have gone on with it, I believe it might have continued as long as we had continued alive together.
'But I live,' said I, 'as well
satisfied
now as I did then'; adding, that his company had been a means to make me live much more cheerfully than otherwise I should have done, for which I was much obliged to him; and so I put off all room for any offer for the present.
The next morning we talked of it again, when I found he was fully satisfied, and, smiling, said he hoped I would not want money and not tell him of it, and that I had promised him otherwise.
I told him I was fully
satisfied
of it.
After I was sure it was so, and I had
satisfied
him of it too, we began to think of taking measures for the managing it, and I proposed trusting the secret to my landlady, and asking her advice, which he agreed to.
This
satisfied
the parish officers presently, and I lay in with as much credit as I could have done if I had really been my Lady Cleve, and was assisted in my travail by three or four of the best citizens' wives of Bath who lived in the neighbourhood, which, however, made me a little the more expensive to him.
I sent my gentleman a short letter, therefore, that I had obeyed his orders in all things but that of going back to the Bath, which I could not think of for many reasons; that however parting from him was a wound to me that I could never recover, yet that I was fully
satisfied
his reflections were just, and would be very far from desiring to obstruct his reformation or repentance.
'I dare say, madam,' says he, 'that you will be as well
satisfied
with my friend as with me, and he is thoroughly able to assist you, which I am not.'
And indeed as soon as I saw his friend, and he began but to talk of the affair, I was fully
satisfied
that I had a very honest man to deal with; his countenance spoke it, and his character, as I heard afterwards, was everywhere so good, that I had no room for any more doubts upon me.
Then, as to executors, I assured him I had no heirs, nor any relations in England, and I should alter my condition before I died, and then his trust and trouble should cease together, which, however, I had no prospect of yet; but I told him if I died as I was, it should be all his own, and he would deserve it by being so faithful to me as I was
satisfied
he would be.
He was very much against my being without a maid, but she being a servant hired in the country, and I resolving to keep no servant at London, I told him it would have been barbarous to have taken the poor wench and have turned her away as soon as I came to town; and it would also have been a needless charge on the road, so I
satisfied
him, and he was easy enough on the score.
Now we know, mother,' said I, 'that those are poor people, and their gain consists in being quit of the charge as soon as they can; how can I doubt but that, as it is best for them to have the child die, they are not over solicitous about life?''This is all vapours and fancy,' says the old woman; 'I tell you their credit depends upon the child's life, and they are as careful as any mother of you all.''O mother,' says I, 'if I was but sure my little baby would be carefully looked to, and have justice done it, I should be happy indeed; but it is impossible I can be
satisfied
in that point unless I saw it, and to see it would be ruin and destruction to me, as now my case stands; so what to do I know not.''A fine story!' says the governess.
'As to that,' says the governess, 'you shall be secure, for the nurse shall never so much as dare to inquire about you, and you shall once or twice a year go with me and see your child, and see how 'tis used, and be
satisfied
that it is in good hands, nobody knowing who you are.''Why,' said I, 'do you think, mother, that when I come to see my child, I shall be able to conceal my being the mother of it?
I assured her it would, and so took my leave, well
satisfied
to have been freed from such a house, however good my accommodations there had been, as I have related above.
Why, you were fully
satisfied
that I would comply and yield at first word, or resolved to take no denial.'
The constable who came with the hue-and-cry was immediately informed of this, and came over to me to be
satisfied
from my own mouth, and I assured him that I saw the three gentlemen as I was at the window; that I saw them afterwards at the windows of the room they dined in; that I saw them afterwards take horse, and I could assure him I knew one of them to be such a man, that he was a gentleman of a very good estate, and an undoubted character in Lancashire, from whence I was just now upon my journey.
I stood stock-still all this while, till they came back, dragging the poor fellow they had taken, and lugging the things they had found, extremely well
satisfied
that they had recovered the booty and taken the thief; and thus they passed by me, for I looked only like one who stood up while the crowd was gone.
I left the officer overjoyed with his prize, and fully
satisfied
with what he had got, and appointed to meet him at a house of his own directing, where I came after I had disposed of the cargo I had about me, of which he had not the least suspicion.
This was indeed probable enough, and the justice
satisfied
himself with giving her an oath that she had not received or admitted any man into her house to conceal him, or protect or hide him from justice.
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