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I.--Uncomfortable Visitors Near the close of the year 1780 a solitary traveller was pursuing his way through one of the numerous little valleys of New York State which were then common ground for the British and Revolutionary forces.
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Much rather let him reserve the allowance of spirits he gives himself until the evening, when he can enjoy it in warm toddy beside a comfortable fire, before retiring to rest for the night."
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Seventy magnificent creatures had been brought down by a single breeder, a comfortable- looking, keen-eyed, ruddy-cheeked gentleman who stood beside the sales-man and whispered cautions and precepts into his ear.
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"But, Manuel, you have another dear friend in England; and in England, although the Lord knows I never want to lay eyes on her, we might at least be comfortable--" Manuel shook his head: "I am very fond of Alianora, because she resembles me as closely as it is possible for a woman to resemble a man.
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It was as follows:-- 'I, Sir James Macdonald, of Macdonald, Baronet, now, after arriving at my perfect age, from the friendship I bear to Alexander Macdonald of Kingsburgh, and in return for the long and faithful services done and performed by him to my deceased father, and to myself during my minority, when he was one of my Tutors and Curators; being resolved, now that the said Alexander Macdonald is advanced in years, to contribute my endeavours for making his old age placid and comfortable,'-- therefore he grants him an annuity of fifty pounds sterling.
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Because, my friends, God's grace is too full for fallen man's notions; and therefore there is an evil fashion abroad in the world, that where a text speaks of wrath, and misery and punishment, you are to interpret it exactly, and to the very letter: but where it speaks of love, and mercy, and forgiveness, you are to do no such thing, but narrow it, and fence it, and explain it away, for fear you should make sinners too comfortable,--a plan which seems wise enough, but which, like other plans of man's wisdom, has not succeeded too well, to judge by the number of sinners who are already too comfortable though they hear the Bible misused, and God's grace narrowed in this way every Sunday of their lives.
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You may not be sorry to learn, that, though not what great merchants call very rich, I was comfortable,--comfortable,--so that most of those moderate luxuries I described in my verses on Contentment--most of them, I say--were within our reach, if we chose to have them.
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And gently she removed her hat and gown, and her gestures and speech, and her comfortableness, from those august precincts.
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The same process is applied to the little feet, which swell to misshapen stumps beneath an accumulation of under-socks and over-socks, under-shoes and over-shoes, and are finally swallowed up in huge worsted stockings, which embrace all the drawers, short petticoats, ends of handkerchiefs, comfortables, and shawls they can reach, and are generally gartered in some incomprehensible fashion round the waist.
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She was the comfortablest cushion of a creature that the evolution of the universe had ever produced.
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All are then comfortable;--the noble Genoese, the honorable Melchior, and the worthy Chatelain.--And Jacques Colis?"
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Discomfortable cousin!
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I went in and found the house neat and not uncomfortable.
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Thet means they've moved on down to the edge of the timber an' oncomfortable near our wheat.
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"We reached this the day before yesterday, in the evening; having had a strong breeze against us for a day or two before; which made me extremely uncomfortable,--and indeed my headache is hardly gone yet.
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No, not at all, only very uncomfortable"--and then I explained the situation to him--that my dress was so tight I could neither move nor eat.
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She showed herself then so winning and gracious and altogether magical to the little girl that Sylvia forgot the uncomfortableness which always happened when her aunt and her father were together.
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And how," she enquired, changing the subject abruptly, "how is your bed,--comfortable, mm?"
