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I used to think I could take things quietly and bear them bravely. But I can't! If it were not for very shame I could sit here and cry to you. 'Don't mind me, I said; 'you know it is a part of our agreement that I was not to be critical. 'Our agreement? he repeated, vaguely.
"Ah, well, we found ourselves very much in agreement, anyhow, about Home affairs and about the position of the Anglican Church in Canada; the need there is for less exclusiveness and more direct methods. The idea of coming Home and preaching through England, a kind of pilgrimage that was entirely Reynolds's own.
No exaggeration is indulged in if we pronounce it simple and ingenious. It may be used in a great variety of eases. Electricite. We may discourse for some time to come upon the uniformity of electric language, for universal agreement is far from being established.
Stripped of its legal phraseology it was an agreement to the effect that if the boys would make no salvage charges for saving the yacht, they could have her free of cost to sail back to New York. "But," said Frank, "how did he know we intended to save her?"
"I've been wanting to leave here I've got tired of it. And" he continued with a mysterious smile "if things turn out as I expect, you'll be glad to have me go." He rose from the bench. "Let's write that agreement," he suggested. They entered the cabin, and a few minutes later Dakota sat again on the box in the lee of the cabin wall, mending his saddle, the signed agreement in his pocket.
After so many disappointments, the refugee could not be expected to leave a comfortable situation and to risk his head without some definite agreement as to the future; and the convention made with him by Eaton did not go beyond what Hamet had a right to demand, or the instructions of the Commodore, even in Article II., which was afterward particularly objected to by the Government. It ran thus:
Its hesitation appeared to be due to the apparent need for a further note to dispose of new interpretations Germany had ingeniously woven in her various excuses by way of evading the letter and spirit of the Sussex agreement. One view of her submarine "rights" which Germany insisted on upholding was that armed merchantmen were not legally immune from attack on sight.
Knowing that his companion would insist on the fulfillment of this agreement, Fred pushed on faster than before; the sailor, however, easily maintaining his place almost on his heels.
With my last words, I tell you, religion is the one thing needful." "And now," he continued, affectionately pressing the hand of his friend, "I am going to die, and I am glad of it." Many years before, an agreement had been made between Dr. Hopkins and his old and tried friend, Dr.
"In five minutes we had come to an agreement, and I deposited my bag upon the earthen floor of a rustic room, furnished with a bed, two chairs, a table and a washbowl. The room looked into the large, smoky kitchen, where the lodgers took their meals with the people of the farm and the landlady, who was a widow. "I washed my hands, after which I went out.
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