and who is to
stay? Captain Ebsworth says, and I say, let chance decide it.
It'll be hard for Martin Poyser to go to a strange place, among strange faces, when he's been bred up on the Hall Farm, and his father before him; but then it 'ud be harder for a man with his feelings to
stay. I don't see how the thing's to be made any other than hard.
Antonia was frightened, and was going home to
stay for a while, she told Mrs.
But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to
stay, that the Doctor hadn't the heart to turn him out.
While we
stayed here we were given to understand that those who had been pleased at Goa to give us directions in relation to our journey had done nothing but tell us lies.
On this even those who as yet had
stayed always at the ships, the pilots and helmsmen, and even the stewards who were about the ships and served out rations, all came to the place of assembly because Achilles had shown himself after having held aloof so long from fighting.
The first thing he said then was that he was a fool to go on getting himself killed for anyone he ever saw, and was determined to be off and
stay there no longer, When the Princess learned his intention she entreated him to
stay, reminding him that another night would free her from the spell.
A German gentleman told me that when he remained a week in a hotel, he gave the portier five marks, the head waiter four, the Boots three, and the chambermaid two; and if he
stayed three months he divided ninety marks among them, in about the above proportions.
"I will
stay with you one night longer," said the Swallow, "but I cannot pluck out your eye.
It was so much more natural to have him
stay when he was not absolutely required to leave her.
Bingley and his sister pressed them to
stay longer, she could spare them very well.
"Well, then, some lady must have
stayed here once," I retorted, with a sudden inspiration, "and left them behind--"