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She's grown up now. Senator, it just occurred to me: Annette is rapidly becoming her father's daughter." "Well, young man," said Fairclothe complacently. "Have you anything more to say to me?" "I'm going to keep that land, Garman," said Roger, ignoring the Senator.
I am becoming used to tiny and ingenious furniture, to doll-like desks, to miniature bowls with which to play at dinner, to the immaculate monotony of the mats, to the finely finished simplicity of the white woodwork.
The sectional fears aroused by the slavery issue in Missouri three years before had been quieted by a compromise and were now forgotten in a national alliance against foreign menace. The announcement inaugurated a period of isolation for the United States, during which she could gain strength to meet her European rivals on equal ground instead of becoming a tool for them.
"Mamma darling," she said, as they were going home in the clashing, clattering "elevated," "you mustn't think me naughty, but I had to ask them my own particular girls to go with us to the Philharmonic. They are becoming so interested in their music and it will be a treat for them, will really mean something in their lives, will really live for them, in them." Mrs.
Poor Armand acts on the opinions he adopts; proves his contempt for the marriage state by living with the wife of another; resents, as natures so inherently manly must do, the Society that visits on her his defiance of its laws; throws himself, head foremost, against that society altogether; necessarily joins all who have other reasons for hostility to Society; he himself having every inducement not to join indiscriminate strikes high wages, a liberal employer, ample savings, the certainty of soon becoming employer himself.
He had scarcely done so, when a stone, becoming detached from the groined roof over his head, fell down on the very spot where he had been sitting.
"I've got to have a secretary, and I'd rather trust my private business to my own daughter than to any one else. It's safe with her." It was so safe with her steady demureness that Hutchinson found himself becoming steady himself.
Omri belonged to the city of Jezreel, in the inheritance of Issachar; but he built Samaria in the midst of Ephraim, between the two hills of blessing and of cursing, and this town becoming the capital, gave its name to the whole kingdom.
But in this way the men would have their sides towards the surrounding enemy, and would be helpless. So when attacked they had to halt and front, thus becoming a line two deep again, facing their foes. But this required another general halt till the enemy were killed or driven back.
A more striking or becoming arrangement could hardly have been devised. Madeleine was somewhat above the ordinary stature, and her height, combined with the native dignity of her bearing, would have given her an air of stateliness, but for the exceeding grace which dispelled the faintest shadow of stiffness, a stiffness very noticeable in the formal carriage of the countess.
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