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You'd be living in hell and so should I. I should prefer to remain in purgatory, which, after all, is quite bearable I'm used to it and I love you enough to wish to see you in paradise." She turned away with a wide gesture and an upward inflexion of her voice. Barney Bill refilled his pipe and fixed Paul with his twinkling diamond eyes. "It's a pity, sonny a dodgasted pity!"

Juniper had been altogether abolished. But it occurred to Mr. Grey that Mr. Matterson was at any rate better than Mr. Juniper; that he was by profession a gentleman, and that there might be a beginning of those good deeds by which he was anxious to make the evening of his days bearable to himself. "I am delighted to make Mr.

At Rome he had fallen in with the Risboroughs, and had wandered with them during a whole spring through enchanted land of Sicily, where it gradually became bearable again to think of the too-many things he knew, and to apply them to his own pleasure and that of his companions. Ella Risborough was then forty-two, seventeen years older than himself, and her only daughter was a child of sixteen.

A listener might have heard some such words as these: First Moses might speak: "I, too, know what it is to want not to die. I did not fear the act of dying, but the manner away out of the Promised Land. But when I saw the will of my God in all its beauty, then even this bitter disappointment seemed bearable, and the kiss of my God at the last made up for all.

However, Ernesta found life still bearable in the time of Pius IX that is until the latter part of 1870 for she might still venture to open the windows overlooking the street, receive a few lady friends otherwise than in secrecy, and accept invitations to festivities.

And, therefore, God does not take that excuse which sinners make, that they have had no teaching. But what does he do to them? Suppose, now, that you had a dog which would not be taught, or broken in, or cured of biting, or made useful, or bearable in any way, what would you do to that dog?

"Yes, there is one thing worth living for to help to make it all a little more bearable for the others." And then all at once, his face, so virile yet so delicate, so young and yet so sad, reminded me of one I had seen in an old picture the face of an angel watching beside the dead Christ; and I cried

They have to go, however, for life at the hotel is no longer bearable; and besides, if I kept them with me, and the railway people won't listen to reason, I should have to pay three extra fares. And to make matters worse, my wife hasn't got much brains. I'm afraid she won't be able to manage things properly."

But don't let it make you uncharitable, Erica. You are sharing God;'s pain, but remember it is only His perfect love which makes that pain bearable." "I do find it hard to love bigots," said Erica, sighing. "They! What do they know about the thousand difficulties which have driven people into secularism?

From Bozzle himself there came no other immediate reply than, "his duty, and that he would make further inquiries." In the second week in October, Mr. Glascock returned to Florence, intending to remain there till the weather should have become bearable at Naples. His father was said to be better, but was in such a condition as hardly to receive much comfort from his son's presence.