In the afternoon, after we had done with him, I went to speak with my uncle Wight and found my aunt to have been ill a good while of a miscarriage, I staid and talked with her a good while.
Musique practice a good while, then to Paul's Churchyard, and there I met with Dr.
So to the Wardrobe to dinner with the young Ladies, and then into my Lady's chamber and talked with her a good while, and so walked to White Hall, an hour or two in the Park, which is now very pleasant.
After dinner, to the rest of the ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a good while) quite through the fleet.
Who told me that they had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I believe a good while.
After that to the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men and good things were now discouraged.
I begged my landlady that we might not have any more music in the town, nor ringing of bells, and she managed it so well that we were very quiet; but an odd passage interrupted all my mirth for a good while.
To be brief, he took the materials, of which he made a compound, mixing them all and boiling them a good while until it seemed to him they had come to perfection.
Thence visited my Lord Barkeley, and did sit discoursing with him in his chamber a good while, and [he] mighty friendly to me about the same business of Tangier.
Thence to walk alone a good while in St. James's Parke with Mr. Coventry, who I perceive is grown a little melancholy and displeased to see things go as they do so carelessly.
However, to cards with my wife a good while, and then to bed.
I am come home; and it is late, and my puppy let out my fire, and I am gone to bed and writing there, and it is past twelve a good while.
My humble service to Mrs. Walls and Mrs. Stoyte; I missed the former a good while.
Dilly is not tired at all with England, but intends to continue here a good while: he is mighty easy to be at distance from his two sisters-in-law.
We stared at it a good while to discover the paint and hieroglyphics, but could see nothing except iron stains.
I confess that I cannot shake off 'Lohengrin' in a good while after I hear it.
I told Mrs. Henderson that we had gone long on the colored brother a good while.
Batelier a good while, so I made nothing of it, but to supper and to bed.
It was, however, a good while before we saw anything of him, and we were already flattering ourselves that we had arrived first when he was suddenly observed in a boat coming under our stern.
Easterly breeze and thick when I was out; but that's a good while ago.
And now began a work of tunnelling which lasted a good while, for one excavation led to another, and we did not stop until we had a whole underground village -- probably one of the most interesting works ever executed round a Polar station.
Up betimes and to my office a good while at my new rulers, then to business, and towards noon to the Exchange with Creed, where we met with Sir J.
Up betimes and to my office, and there busy all the morning, among other things walked a good while up and down with Sir J.
Then home with my workmen all the afternoon, at night into the garden to play on my flageolette, it being moonshine, where I staid a good while, and so home and to bed.
Home, and I sat with him a good while talking, and then home and to bed.
And on another occasion he received a violent blow with a stone upon the nape of the neck, which dimmed his sight for a good while afterwards.
This was not observed for a good while, but at the very time when Cimon spied it, the priest came and showed him the liver of the sacrifice imperfect, wanting that part of it called the head.
Thence home, and by water by a gally down to Woolwich, and there a good whilewith Mr. Pett upon the new ship discoursing and learning of him.
After a little discourse I to the Lords' House before they sat; and stood within it a good while, while the Duke of York came to me and spoke to me a good while about the new ship' at Woolwich.
And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf.
After walking a good while in the Hall, it being Term time, I home by water, calling at Michell's and giving him a fair occasion to send his wife to the New Exchange to meet my wife and me this afternoon.
Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have had with any body a good while.
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