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I will make a proposition to you, and I will promise that it shall be carried out on my side exactly as I state it. "This is a noble property. In ten years it has paid its owner $500,000, $50,000 a year. It is sure to go on in this way under good management. I offer, in the name of the owner, to bond this property to you for $300,000 for five years at six per cent.

It was perhaps but a natural transition for him, who so closely observed these indications of departure in the ship so often named, to turn his eyes on the vessel which lay without the fort, in order to witness the effect so manifest a signal had produced in her, also. But the closest and the keenest scrutiny could have detected no sign of any bond of interest between the two.

'But it's only me. And as if recognizing a bond which Wych Hazel did not, she lifted one little white hand in her two brown ones and kissed it. 'Everybody shews me their hearts, she went on; 'but it's all here, touching her breast, and meaning probably that it went no further. 'May I love my lad's lady a little bit?

Now it is upon the nature of the systems which we ultimately form in the mind of the child and upon the method which we pursue in our process of system or knowledge making that the resultant character of our education depends. A system of knowledge may be related as regards its parts by some qualitative or quantitative bond of identity.

So she described their original meeting on board the "Philadelphia," and the suspicion, then wrongfully directed against Sonya, who was at that time using the name of Lady Dorian. Afterwards she told of Sonya's appearance at the Sacred Heart Hospital and her work there. Last of all, of their unexpected coming together in Russia and of the peculiar bond between Nona Davis and the Russian woman.

Whilst the canvas hid her, in the swift two minutes between the boat's putting about and her running up into the wind, July Constantine must have lifted her lover's body overboard and followed it to the bottom of the sea, There is no other explanation; and of the bond that knit these two together there is, when I ask myself candidly, no explanation at all, unless I give more credence than I have any wish to give to the wild tale which Joseph Laquedem told me.

Is there a single member of this House who will say that a wealthy minor of thirteen ought to be at perfect liberty to execute a conveyance of his estate, or to give a bond for fifty thousand pounds? If anybody were so absurd as to say, "What has the Legislature to do with the matter? Why cannot you leave trade free?

In a few moments what she had been expecting happened. Her mother entered the room. Of her advent there were the usual notifications. An immense rustling of silken skirts, and an overwhelming odour of the latest Bond Street perfume. She flung herself into a chair, and regarded her daughter with a complacent smile. "That delightful man has been to see me again," she exclaimed.

When the boys got home Daniel was in gay spirits and Ezekiel was depressed. "Well, Dan," said the father, "did you spend your money?" "Of course I did," replied Daniel. "And, Zeke, what did you do with your dollar?" "Loaned it to Dan," replied Ezekiel. But there was a fine bond of affection between these two. Ezekiel was two years older and, unfortunately for himself, was strong and well.

Of course a nation so made will have a separate stamp and mark. This case is well known, but it is not so that the same process, in a weaker shape, is going on in America now. Congeniality of sentiment is a reason of selection, and a bond of cohesion in the 'West' at present.