Yet I daresay the fellow is punctual in settling his milk-score, etc. Keep to your bank, and the bank will keep you.

But he thought not of such consequences resulting from the intimacy of Henrich and Oriana: he only saw that his child was happy, and that she daily improved in grace and intelligence, and in the skilful and punctual performance of all her domestic duties; and he was well satisfied that he had not shed the blood of the Christian youth on the grave of his lost Tekoa.

At the same time, his family, relatives and friends, discover that the erstwhile generous, frank, neat and punctual and liked, has become stingy and suspicious and slovenly and hated.

He had lately completed his sixty-ninth year; thirty years had gone by since the death of his wife Valerie, more than twenty since his daughter Reine had joined her, and he still ever lived on in his methodical, punctual manner, amid the downfall of his existence.

"I was waiting for you, my friend; you are late, you who are so punctual as a rule," said Constance.

Already in the factory yard Mathieu had fancied that he could see the shadow of Morange gliding past himthe punctual, timid, soft-hearted accountant, whom misfortune and insanity had carried off into the darkness.

It was my fortune to encounter him near St. Dunstan's Church (which, with its punctual giants, is now no more than dust and a shadow), on the morning of his election to that high office.

Only that punctual face of the old nurse pleases him, that announces his broths, and his cordials.

There is a punctual generation who time their calls to the precise commencement of your dining-hournot to eatbut to see you eat.

Then turning to our marshal, he said, "Take Jack into Baron Pollock's room"the Baron had just gone in to lunch, for he was always punctual to a minute"and ask him to give him a mutton-chop.

" "My dear Mary," said Sir Timothy, "will you never learn to be punctual?

His chief province is at funerals, where he commands in chief, marshals the tristitiae irritamenta, and, like a gentleman-sower to the worms, serves up the feast with all punctual formality.

The salutations, however, were short, and onwards went the cortege, for the chapel bell was tolling in, and the king was always punctual.

I know they would candidly confess that it does sothey must have many gratifying instances of a contrary nature, in children, who from evil habits have been won to a love of goodness and religion, shewn not merely in a punctual attendance at their school, but in that good-will toward their fellow-scholars, and grateful love to their teachers, which are the only infallible signs of a change in the affections.

But, in the clear, cold nights that precede the punctual and distinct winter of these regions, the black bears often come down from their fastnesses amid the wild ridges, and astonish the drowsy habitant and his household by their pranks among his pigs and calves: also in the spring.

She ought not to expect that Pete, getting away from the office in business hours, could be as punctual as an eager, idle creature like herself.

This was Giles's story; and the General adds that as he knew what little dependence was to be placed on the punctual conveyance of letters by a private hand, he writes this duplicate by post to repeat his request that Mr. Lear will inform him, by return of post, what he has to expect with certainty as to the coach hired for taking on a part of his family to Philadelphia.

He had supposed it to be the 31st, and intended to spend Monday and possibly Tuesday in Georgetown; but now he would endeavor to reach Bladensburg on Monday night and lose no time afterwards in pursuing his journey onward to Philadelphia, as scarce any time would be left to him for preparing his communications when the session opened, if the members were punctual in attending.

Formerly I hated you, it is true, for you were more powerful and richer than I was; you were renowned for being honest and punctual, and that hurt me.

If you had sat there punctual all those Sunday evenings, do you think he would have believed it then?"

"You'll be punctual, won't you?" "Of course I'll be punctual," said Mountjoy, scowling.

"You'll be punctual, won't you?" "Of course I'll be punctual," said Mountjoy, scowling.

It is true the teacher can not rely wholly on the interest which his scholars take in their studies to make them punctual at school; but if he finds among them any very general disposition to be tardy, he ought to seek for the fault mainly in himself and not in them.

Punctual to the moment the train steamed into the station, and the giant form of O'FLAHERTY, the "man in a million," leaped out of the railway carriage, amid the plaudits of all the blue blood of England's sports.

In the following sentences, for instance, they express the indicative idea: "You may (i.e., are permitted to) stay an hour;" "You should (i.e., ought to) be punctual;" "Edith would not (i.e., was unwilling to) come."