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Electra Grey; and so like Robert? Oh! it must be so. Child, who are you? Where are your parents?" She approached and put her hand on the girl's shoulders, while a hopeful light kindled in her eyes. "I am an orphan, madam, from the South. My father died before my birth, my mother immediately after." "Was your father's name Robert? Where was he from?" "His name was Enoch R. Gray.
If there were in this country any considerable number of persons to whom the buildings they daily enter had any positive permanent value besides convenience, who looked upon the church, the bank, or the house, as upon a poem or a statue, the birth of a national architecture would be assured.
An invitation has been received from the Government of Venezuela to send representatives in July, 1883, to Caracas for participating in the centennial celebration of the birth of Bolivar, the founder of South American independence.
Mac- Morlan was a ladylike person, and well qualified by birth and manners to receive the visit, and to make her house agreeable to Miss Bertram. A home, therefore, and an hospitable reception were secured to her, and she went on with better heart to pay the wages and receive the adieus of the few domestics of her father's family.
Daily more than daily did she and Cicely go over together that hurried conversation on the moor, and try to guess whether Langston intended to hint at Cicely's real birth.
"And will you tell me," said Glyndon, "that in yourself I behold one of that mighty few over whom Zicci has no superiority in power and wisdom?" "In me," answered the stranger, "you see one from whom Zicci himself learned many of his loftiest secrets. Before his birth my wisdom was! On these shores, on this spot, have I stood in ages that your chronicles but feebly reach.
At length it was broken by Edward. 'But Miss Bradwardine? 'She had never a will but her old father's; besides, you are a likely youth, of honest principles and high birth; no, she never had any other will than mine, and in my proudest days I could not have wished a mair eligible espousal for her than the nephew of my excellent old friend, Sir Everard.
He had been a black sheep at home, and had rather been hustled away than otherwise. If he had been a more admirable kind of fellow, Walderhurst would certainly have made him an allowance; but his manner of life had been such as the Marquis had no patience with in men of any class, and especially abhorred in men whom the accident of birth connected with good names.
"She don't mean no harm, Lizzie she's tryin' to help workin' women. It's what's called birth control she wants to teach women " "If she wants to TEACH women, why don't she TALK to the women! What's she all the time talkin' to MEN fer? You think you can tell me tales like that me, that's been what I have?" And Lizzie went off into another fit, worse than ever.
"Yes: and to the end that there should be no mistake, no possibility of alleging that the inspired Scriptures were written subsequent to the arrival of the Messiah they prophesy, to prove that they were neither invented nor added to after the event, it was God's pleasure that they should be translated into Greek in the Septuagint version and known to the whole world more than two hundred and fifty years before the birth of Christ."
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