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The other day we went to ask after his brother.
I've been to Osaka to ask after my sick friend.
CHAPTER XXX I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she left: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her, and wouldn’t let me pass.
'Why, he was so angry, Oliver, that he forgot even to ask after you!
Micawber, bursting into a state of much excitement, and turning pale, 'if you ask after my employer as YOUR friend, I am sorry for it; if you ask after him as MY friend, I sardonically smile at it.
In whatever capacity you ask after my employer, I beg, without offence to you, to limit my reply to this-that whatever his state of health may be, his appearance is foxy: not to say diabolical.
Does she never ask after me? But, said the countess, we are not only come to ask after Mrs. Jervis's health neither; but we are come to see a rarity besides.
I wondered I saw not Mr. Williams the clergyman, but would not ask after him, apprehending it might give some jealousy; but when I had beheld the rest, he was the only one I had hopes of; for I thought his cloth would set him above assisting in my ruin.--But in the afternoon he came; for it seems he has a little Latin school in the neighbouring village, which he attends; and this brings him in a little matter, additional to my master's favour, till something better falls, of which he has hopes.
My Pamela! said he, May I just ask after your employment? You can witness for me, Mrs. Smith, and so can you, Mrs. Lovick, proceeded she, if any one ask after my life and conversation, since you have known me, that I have been very orderly; have kept good hours; and never have lain out of your house but when I was in prison; and then you know I could not help it.
Then to see them break in upon the zealous applauders, by their impatience and remorse, and throw abroad their helpless hands, and exclaim; then again to see them listen to hear more of her praises, and weep again--they even encouraging the servants to repeat how they used to be stopt by strangers to ask after her, and by those who knew her, to be told of some new instances to her honour--how aggravating all this! You ask after my health; I am in tolerable leanness, which I promote by exercise and abstinence.
You ask after the expense, a question no less interesting to the married than the single.
But Essper George was in his element: he joked, he assisted, he exhibited, he explained; tapped the cheeks of the children and complimented the elder ones; and finally, having parted at a prodigious profit, with nearly his whole, stock, paid himself out of a large and heavy purse, which the portly father, in his utter inability to comprehend the complicated accounts and the debased currency, with great frankness deposited in the hands of the master of the stall, desiring him to settle his own claims. "I hope I may be allowed to ask after Miss Fane," said Vivian. "She continues better; we are now about to join her in the Limewalk.
But you never ask after Jem "-anxious to get in a word on the subject nearest her heart. "No," replied Mary, blushing scarlet. "How is he?" "I cannot justly say how he is, seeing he's at Halifax; but he were very well when he wrote last Tuesday.
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