Lord Dorset used to say of a very goodnatured, dull fellow, "'Tis a thousand pities that man is not illnatured!

"They both coughed arter that, and like a goodnatured fool I stood 'em a sixpenny cigar apiece, and I 'ad just turned to go back to my seat when up come two more hands from the Lizzie and Annie.

"They both coughed arter that, and like a goodnatured fool I stood 'em a sixpenny cigar apiece, and I 'ad just turned to go back to my seat when up come two more hands from the Lizzie and Annie.

But common soldiers are not apt to be the elite of mankind; neither do we know with how goodnatured a smile the mention of them may have been accompanied.

Do take pen, or put it into goodnatured hands Dorothean or Wordsworthian-female, or Hutchinsonian, to inform us of your present state, or possible proceedings.

But Rogers, I am told, has done many goodnatured things of this nature.

The stories from goodnatured Pulci I have been obliged to compress for other reasonschiefly their excessive diffuseness.

They seem amiable and goodnatured and by no means minaudières, as Lady Mary Wortley Montague has rather unjustly termed them; for they appear to me to be the most frank, artless creatures I ever beheld, and to have no sort of minauderie or coquetterie about them.

She was goodnatured and full of energy, forever trying to get Verdi to play.

"Come Thomas," says Kitty, "pray make us a pun, You're goodnatured and never refuse;" "Ask coachee," says Tom, "he's the fellow for Fun, For he knows the way to a-mews.

245, n. 2; v. 132, 139; 'good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362; iii. 78; goodnatured, but not good-humoured, ii. 362; good in others seen by him, i. 161, n. 2; good things of this life, loved the, iii. 310, n. 4; good sayings, forgets his, iv. 179; Gordon Riots, iii.

Then his temper was imperturbable, and although the most obliging and kindest-hearted creature that ever lived, there was a native dignity about him which prevented his goodnature from being abused.

[Footnote 4: goodnatured Reader]

I have often thought, if the Letters written by Men of Goodnature to their Wives, were to be compared with those written by Men of Gallantry to their Mistresses, the former, notwithstanding any Inequality of Style, would appear to have the Advantage.

" Now and then when the death has been preceded by a long illness, and the family exchequer has sunk low, the neighbours come to the rescue, and with characteristic straightforwardness and goodnature avert impending disgrace.

Gisborne's "Rulers and Statesmen of New Zealand," though not a connected history, is written with such undoubted fairness and personal knowledge, and in so workmanlike, albeit goodnatured, a way, as to have a permanent interest.