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In a few years they become orientalised, and, by the time that they are of my age, they would generally prefer India, as a residence, to England. But it is a very different matter when a man is transplanted at thirty-three." Making, as always, the best of everything, he was quite ready to allow that he might have been placed in a still less agreeable situation.
Many a story did he tell of his early attachment and of its course for the last ten years, but my space will not allow me to inflict one of them on the reader. My father saw that the more he listened and sympathised and encouraged, the fonder George became of him, and this was all he cared about. Thus did they converse hour after hour.
She had behaved very well, but still he would not be weak enough to yield to her in everything at once. As to opening her desk, or going up-stairs into her room, that he felt to be quite impossible. Even his nature did not admit of that. But neither did his nature allow him to ask her pardon and to own that he had been wrong. She had said that he must implore her forgiveness at her feet.
An attempt of the Boers to recruit in Damaraland was promptly stopped by the German officers in control, who were ordered to allow neither men nor horses to cross the border for the purposes of the war. All German steamship lines which held subventions from the Government were warned that if they were found carrying contraband they would thereby forfeit their privileges.
We shall not allow you to die so long as there is any hope for you or any resource left untried. It is possible that she will remain to supper." He left me, and I was alarmed to see him approach her. But they were soon lost in the crowd. "Is it possible," I murmured, "have I come to this? O, heavens! is this what I am going to love?
'I believe we are by way of being countrymen, and, therefore, although the hour is early, I hope you will allow me to offer you some of this bottled sunshine of the year '78 from la belle France, to whose prosperity and honour we shall drink together.
Allow me to speak plainly. Although it is harrowing to your feelings, it is necessary that the facts of the case should be stated. We have in the United States slave-breeding states.
He was the most modest, unobtrusive man in all our town, and yet knew more of his business than all of us put together. "'No, no, I can't allow that, cried the motherly wife. "'Nonsense! replied the old partner. 'However, my dear boy for I really must call you so it was that very thing that made your father's fortune; I mean that he was just as unpretending as he was clever.
It was a sad necessity, for I knew that the tide was falling very fast, and that before long we should be immovable; but to have kept on shifting the load and allow the enemy to get close in over our heads on the densely-clothed sides of the stream would, I knew, be madness; and the men showed how they appreciated the common-sense of the order by getting at once under cover, and then the sharp rattle of our fire was more than doubled.
He wouldn't know my name." "What's your business with him? You an insurance agent?" "Oh, no, nothing like that!" denied Anthony hurriedly. "Oh, no. It's a it's a personal matter." He wondered if he should have said this. It had all sounded so simple when Mr. Carleton had enjoined his flock: "Don't allow yourself to be kept out!
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