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Julia immediately extinguished the light, lest her sister should discover the books and then said, "Nothing, Fanny, nothing; only I have the toothache, and I got up for the camphor, but I cannot find the bottle anywhere." "The camphor is downstairs," said Fanny, "but I will go for it if you wish me to. Does your tooth ache very much?"
For some other people, being convinced about how much can be brought by electronic texts doesn't prevent them from loving books.
"Oh, noble instinct of good men, to stay and do their duty! This let us celebrate above all daring, wit, and beauty." Don Pepe has been abroad as much as it profits a man to be, but has not lost his own soul there, as an American is apt to do. He has known the best men in Europe and America. The best languages, he possesses them; the best books, here they are, piled all about his room.
The few books the house possessed lay on the drawing-room table, or were piled, in dusty confusion, in the bookcase in Mr. Barton's studio; and, thinking of them, Alice determined she would pay her father a visit in his studio. At her knock he ceased singing Il Balen, and cried, 'Come in! 'I beg your pardon, papa; I'm afraid I am interrupting you. 'Not at all not at all, I assure you; come in.
As soon as the two children were thus comfortably established, they opened the Bible, and Rollo began to turn over the leaves in the books of Samuel and of Kings, in order to find something which he thought would interest Jennie.
I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of them will not allow me to be the author of my own travels; and others make me author of books to which I am wholly a stranger.
His hopes were likely to end in disappointment. He felt this keenly. The bright prospects he had so ardently indulged in, became clouded over; and fears for the future once more harassed him. He would only waste his time in this wilderness. His children would live without books, without education, without society. Were he to be suddenly called away, what would become of them?
"Well, it is the history of our own county from as far back as I can trace it; and, oh! you wouldn't believe," he said, "how many interesting facts I have gathered together. I was not meant for a preacher, and I am getting too old and worn-out to travel about the country. I would like to give up preaching and spend all my time with my books. And with 150 pounds a year!
Either carry off Madame de Vandenesse, or show yourself a gentleman. As it is, you are playing the lover in one of your own books." Nathan listened with his head lowered; he was like a lion caught in a toil. "I'll never set foot in this house again," he cried. "That papier-mache marquise sells her tea too dear. She thinks me amusing!
And there will be other silly-wise books. Cinderella shall again lose her slipper, and marry the prince; the wolf shall again eat little Red Ridinghood; and the small eyes grow big at the adventures of Sinbad, the gallant tar.
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