I had long been one of his most important customers and I had always sought to build up a good record with him.
Anyhow, he seemed to be my last resort, and I was determined to make my appeal to him as effective as I knew how As he had always seen me shabbily clad, I decided to overwhelm him with a new suit of clothes.
He was absolutely the same man as he had always been, except, perhaps, that I vaguely felt like a thief in his presence.
I thought of his wife whom his mother had repeatedly described to me as a "meat-ball face" and a virago, and of his home which I had always pictured as hell.
He had always seemed to hold aloof from me, as if he were opposed to the visits of the "money-bag" that I was at his father's house.
Why couldn't father be prevented without its being made public?
Besides, this was the second time he had stayed to supper with them; he owed them hospitality.
He remembered her birthday well--he had always observed it religiously, even that last birthday so soon before she left him, when he was almost certain she was faithless.
Many a time had he tried to think that in the old days of his thwarted married life; and he had always failed.
Or was Jolyon but taking compassion on her loneliness, as he would call it--sentimental radical chap that he had always been?
He loved it all -- everything -- had always loved it!
Her religious and social history, her economical interests, her military geography, her political convenience, had always tended to eccentric rather than concentric motion.
He figured the human mind itself as another radiating matter through which man had always pumped a subtler fluid.
I had alwaysbeen a good pedestrian; but now, whether owing to indisposition or to not having for some time past been much in the habit of taking such lengthy walks, I began to feel not a little weary.
He had always appeared to me a singular being, this same Moldavian clerk.
My own obstinate pride prevented me from asking what it was in so many words; I only made a point of being to him exactly as I had always been, so far as he would allow me.
He and I remained good friends, though we never spoke of anything intimate after that disappointment of his; but I made a point of seeing no less of him than I had always done.
I had always thought of myself as a creature utterly apart.
He had always thought of her as he last saw her that evening in pink, with her white throat and her scornful eyes.
I had always kept, you know, one of papa's old horse-pistols as a protection.
His spirit shone through his son, to whom hehad always preached of "going out" early in life and whom he made a clerk in a sharp scrivener's office at twelve years old.
I had alwaysrather a noticing way--not a quick way, oh, no!
He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees.
Steerforth, dismissing the subject with a light nod, and a smile, and the remark that he would be glad to see the old fellow too, for he had always been an odd fish, inquired if I could give him anything to eat?
I had alwaysfelt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more.
Doctor,--which he had always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys.
The only consolation I had was, that I made the acquaintance of the amiable composer Lorzing, a circumstance which delighted me the more, as I had always been an admirer of his beautiful original music.
I had always regarded as myths the stories told about them in this respect, and should do so still had I not convinced myself of the truth of these assertions by laying hands upon the ducks myself.
I had alwaysdelighted in seeing her and being caressed by her.
I had always thought of the hawthorn as a pretty shrub, growing in hedges; as big as a currant bush or a barberry bush, or some humble plant of that character.
From his early youth he had always entertained a deep sense of religion, a consummate love of virtue, an ardent thirst after knowledge, and an earnest desire to promote the welfare and happiness of all mankind.
His words had power, because they accorded with his thoughts; and his thoughts had reality and depth, because they harmonized with the life which hehad always lived.
Now, as heretofore, he labored for his bread, and was the same simple-hearted man that he had always been.
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