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The long, serrated edge of Mount Tarn, for instance, is like a gigantic saw, while the lower shoulders of the mass are hummocked into a succession of rounded hills. In like manner the two beautiful valleys, separated by a bold bluff called Bachelor's Peak, are symmetrically rounded on their slopes, while their summits are jagged and rough.
The congressman insisted that they should adjourn to his rooms. An unmarried man, he kept bachelor's hall at the hotel during his stay in Washington. There, in comfortable chairs, they spoke of old times, when the captain was seafaring and the Everdean home had been his while his ship was in port at 'Frisco. He told of his return to Bayport, and the renovation of the old house.
"I suppose money will make some difference, sir," said Daniel blushing. "I shall have to keep myself by-and-by." "Not exactly. I recommend you not to be extravagant yes, yes, I know you are not inclined to that; but you need not take up anything against the grain. You will have a bachelor's income enough for you to look about with.
They did not put it upon him in his coffin he had also another which was clean and white. Where now were the tears he had wept? Where were these pearls? They remained in the nightcap. Such precious things do not pass away in the washing. They were preserved and forgotten with the nightcap. The old thoughts, the old dreams yes, they remained still in the old bachelor's nightcap. Wish not for that.
What would Jack say, when, at eleven o'clock, he ran in from his bachelor's dinner his last which he was giving to a few friends? What would her father say? He had always prophesied some disaster for her excursions into the slums. Her imagination could easily picture the mad search that would be made but who could find a trace of her? The blackness, the fear, the dread, were doing their work!
She is always at me, and a continual dropping " "Wears away the stony heart of Brooke Dalton. Why, what a converted clubbist you will be!" "There was always a corner of my heart, Campion, in which I rebelled against our bachelor's paradise at the Oligarchy and you would have opened your eyes if you could have seen into that corner through the smoke and gossip of the old days in Pall Mall."
"Had I a son, who presumed to denounce the wisdom and experience of his father, in this disrespectful mariner, I would disinherit the rascal!" "Ah, Jack, bachelor's children are notoriously well educated, and well mannered. We will hope, however, that time will bring its changes also, and that one of them will be a greater constancy in persons, things, and the affections."
"And if you'll do that I'll go at the joyous task of getting you some supper." "You must let us help you," Mrs. Brainard offered. "Never! What could you do, either of you, in a bachelor's kitchen?" "But we want to see the bachelor at work there." "Your presence might upset me," he called back, laughing, as he hurried away.
To-morrow I shall receive two degrees, the Bachelor's with your class, the Master's with the post-graduates. I am sure you congratulate me." "Oh!" gasped Robbie Belle, "oh, yes!" Bea succeeded in depressing somewhat the round-eyed stare with which she had listened to this extraordinary speech. "I think it is perfectly lovely, Miss More," she said. "Your class must be delighted.
This bachelor's suite lacked, however, something personal, something living, some cherished object, the mark of some particular taste, some passion for a period, for a thing, or pictures or books.
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