" "Here, my dear, try if you can eat a bit o' this," said the younger woman, handing some of the stew on a brown dish with an iron spoon to Maggie, who, remembering that the old woman had seemed angry with her for not liking the bread-and-bacon, dared not refuse the stew, though fear had chased away her appetite.
I allays offer it along with the sherry, though sister Glegg will have it I'm so extravagant; and as for liking to have my clothes tidy, and not go a fright about the house, there's nobody in the parish can say anything against me in respect o' backbiting and making mischief, for I don't wish anybody any harm; and nobody loses by sending me a porkpie, for my pies are fit to show with the best o' my neighbours'; and the linen's so in order as if I was to die to-morrow I shouldn't be ashamed.
For Kezia had not betrayed the reason of Maggie's refusal to come down, not liking to give her mistress a shock in the moment of carving, and Mrs Tulliver thought there was nothing worse in question than a fit of perverseness, which was inflicting its own punishment by depriving Maggie of half her dinner.
She was thankful to have been a Dodson, and to have one child who took after her own family, at least in his features and complexion, in liking salt and in eating beans, which a Tulliver never did.
" "Yes, that he does," said Mrs Tulliver, accepting the last proposition entirely on its own merits; "he's wonderful for liking a deal o' salt in his broth.
Bulstrode, not liking what he had to say, but desiring the end he had in view, for other reasons besides the consolation of his wife.
" said Sir James, not liking to hear any one else speak, though finding it difficult to speak himself.
You know all about it," said Fred, not liking to be catechised in this way.
The poor thing saw only that the world was not ordered to her liking, and Lydgate was part of that world.
—since to-day he seemed not to respond as he used to do to her thorough trust and liking?
For the first time she took down the miniature from the wall and kept it before her, liking to blend the woman who had been too hardly judged with the grandson whom her own heart and judgment defended.
He had lit two candles, expecting that Dorothea would awake, but not liking to rouse her by more direct means.
I don't wonder at Mary's not liking it.
But really, when I came to think of it, I couldn't help liking that the fellow should have a bit of hare to say grace over.
Was inheritance a question of liking or of responsibility?
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.
Vincy's want of liking for the Garths had been converted into something more positive, by alarm lest Fred should engage himself to this plain girl, whose parents "lived in such a small way.
But his liking for the Vicar of St.
" "I know little of either," said Lydgate; "but in general, appointments are apt to be made too much a question of personal liking.
" "There is no question of liking at present.
