She told him a part of it was required to keep him at Oxford.
These and Mrs. Dodd's loss by the bank combined to keep him out of Albion Villa.
The next instance he gave was of a stockbroker suffering under general paralysis and a rooted idea that all the specie in the Bank of England was his, and ministers in league with foreign governments to keep himout of it.
Bayliss wanted to reply with a carronade; but Dodd forbade him sternly, saying, "If we keep him aloof we are done for.
Was it only his imagination, he wondered, that she seemed trying to keep him at a distance, as though she were afraid of him?
Mullins, will you put the tray down, and tell my sister that Mr. Herrick has come down to speak to us on business, and ask her not to keep him waiting.
Poor old Anderson has been the chief sufferer, and the victim of your strictness; do you think it has not troubled me to keep him up night after night?
He might have to go to India, you see, and it would be so much nicer to keep him in England.
It was really very stupid of me; Cedric was quite put out about it.
By all accounts the poor fellow cannot last many days.
Why don't you put her in her cot and order her to go to sleep, instead of crooning absurd ditties over her?
An' ony day 'at ye want to keep him, ye can keep him; for it winna be as gien he gaed to the schuil.
But I had to punch him sometimes to keep him in order!
If the clergy cannot tell a poor girl about her sweetheart, and how to keep him in hand, why should she not go and consult La Corriveau, who can?
I know you have banished Le Gardeur de Repentigny when it had been better to keep him securely in the ranks of the Grand Company.
Presentiments do not always deceive, and at first sight I recognize in him a strong enemy to my repose and happiness; but I shall manage to keep him at a distance.
If the weather is fine tomorrow, keep himin the open air all day, and in the evening walk him on the terrace; he must get his blood stirred up.
I must own I am not sorry that for the time being he looks upon me as an exceptional being; for it is well to keep him a little in awe of me.
I keep him waiting a little while, so he should not know I was so near by, and then I open, pretending to have hurried up ever so fast.
How I have stooped to meanness, to falsehood, to keep him a single day longer, perhaps a single hour!
If he thinks better of it, you won't keep him to it, will you?
But it is better to keep him bound, "so as to make him 'sing.
He was, in fact, permanently placed, and very generally his personal merit sufficed to keep him in his place.
She was too old to let him fall in love with her, which might have done him good; and her inclination was to keep him young, so that the nonsense he talked might never transgress a certain line.
He had had what is vulgarly termed a great scare; he believed, very poignantly for the time, in the Devil, and he felt an irresistible need to subscribe to any institution which engaged to keep him at a distance.
I certainly hope you 'll keep him," he said to Mrs. Light.
To keep him no longer in suspense, I told him my name, which when he heard, he embraced me with affection, and professed his sorrow at seeing me in such a disagreeable situation.
After we had put the can about for some time, our new friend began to yawn, telling us he had been up all night with a sick person; and proposed we should have recourse to some diversion to keep him awake.
He had Philip completely in his own hands by means of the Queen, and was always on his guard tokeep him there.
He arrived there, accompanied by the attendants that the Princesse des Ursins had placed near him, to keep him company, and to allow no one else to approach him.
He said he would go if I didn't, so I gave in to keep him.
I told him that I had been free for the last twenty-four hours, but that to shew my gratitude for his friendly confidence I would feel honoured if he would allow me to keep him company.
Furthermore, the dean had promised to keep him till he obtained his secularization from Rome, and with it freedom to return to Venice, for as soon as he ceased to be a monk the Tribunal would have no lien upon him.
I told my niece to keep him company, and going to the master, whispered to him to let go directly.
We have studied him very carefully, and we know that the only way to live with him is to keep him in a sort of "pint pot" where we can hold the lid open just a little, and clap it down suddenly whenever he tries to spring out.
I have tried to keep him out of trouble, as you asked me; and although it gives me plenty to do, I am succeeding tolerably well, except in his dealings with Polly.
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