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"Nay, my young friend, I deserve it all. I have nothing but my own indiscretion to thank for all the turmoil and tumult that has arisen this morning." "But to what possible cause can we attribute such an outrage?" "Reproach me as much as you will, I deserve it. A man may prate of his own secrets if he like, but he should be careful of those of other people.

She had the same sad look on her face that she had the night I saw them together. I followed this girl to Mississippi and sure enough I came upon your wife." Volrees had now arisen and was restlessly moving about the room, his brain in a whirl. "Was she living with some family, or how was she situated?" he asked. "She and her husband live "

The great importance of the subject in question will justify our having been thus particular. It has arisen from a wish that on a question of such magnitude, to mistake our meaning should be impossible.

As might have been expected, extremists have arisen who sought to find a short road to perfection, and they have met with disappointment. The dreams of the socialists have not been realized; men will not work for one another unless they are at the same time working for themselves.

The truth, then, seems to be that a great demand had arisen for Chinese women at Hong Kong, the most direct cause being the irregular conduct of foreigners officials, private individuals, soldiers and sailors who gathered there at the time of the opium wars, and settled there in large numbers when Hong Kong became a British possession.

It was the act of a coward.” Thérèse spoke the last words with intensity. “Do you think that a man owes nothing to himself?” Hosmer asked, in resistance to her accusation. “Yes. A man owes to his manhood, to face the consequences of his own actions.” Hosmer had remained seated. He did not even with glance follow Thérèse who had arisen and was moving restlessly about the room.

There are no stamps, and the work is done in an hour. More valuable properties are conveyed by a deed generally charged nine guineas. My friend has drawn twelve such deeds in his office in the course of one day; and with these eyes I have seen him earn six guineas in as many minutes, by appearing at the police-office when a dispute has arisen between a master and his servant.

I further pointed out, that such a variety having once arisen, might be perpetuated to some extent, and indeed to a very marked extent, without any direct interference, or without any exercise of that process which we called selection.

Had they directed their course to the warm and fragrant islands of the East, an independent Christian commonwealth might have arisen among those prolific regions, superior in importance to any subsequent colony of Holland, cramped from its birth by absolute subjection to a far distant metropolis. The unexpected death of Requesens suddenly dispelled these schemes.

It was as the Jew said. Attracted by the illumination in the sky, suggestive of something vast and terrible going on outside the walls, and still full of faith in a miraculous deliverance, thousands hastened to see the mercy. What an awakening was in store for them! Enemies seemed to have arisen out of the earth devils, not men. The world to the horizon's rim appeared oppressed with them.