"I have no money," again he said, "or I would lend you some with pleasure." Several times I repeated that I myself possessed a little, and that I would repay any loan from him
punctually, most
punctually, and that he might charge me what interest he liked, since I would meet it without fail.
"
Punctually at eight, sir," said poor old Benjamin, obediently recording his formidable engagement.
It is of high importance to the peace of America that she observe the laws of nations towards all these powers, and to me it appears evident that this will be more perfectly and
punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies.
And he will calmly and
punctually act in accordance with his words.
"I will come very
punctually, my dear Ribby," wrote Duchess; and then at the end she added--"I hope it isn't mouse?"
She always collected her half of his pension
punctually, and he was always at the haunted house to have a chat with her on these occasions.
Saturday being a holiday, they were going to have the old white horse, drive to North Riverboro three miles away, eat a twelve o'clock dinner with Emma Jane's cousins, and be back at four o'clock
punctually.
Knowing that those orders are without appeal, and always
punctually executed, I prepared myself to receive the correction I was threatened with, but unexpectedly found the people so charitable as to lend me the money.
Had the States complied
punctually with the articles of Confederation, or could their compliance have been enforced by as peaceable means as may be used with success towards single persons, our past experience is very far from countenancing an opinion, that the State governments would have lost their constitutional powers, and have gradually undergone an entire consolidation.
Collins returned most
punctually on Monday fortnight, but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his first introduction.
We got away
punctually, and in the course of an hour and a half arrived at the town of Annunciation.
He began to forget the presence of God which had seemed so surrounding; and his religious exercises, still very
punctually performed, grew merely formal.