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There were too many people in Dawson who had bought him up on Chilcoot, and the story got around. Half a dozen times we put him on board steamboats going down the Yukon; but he merely went ashore at the first landing and trotted back up the bank. He bore a charmed life.
Bewildered, confounded by this behavior, to him so new, which bore but little resemblance to that of Flavie, Brigitte, and Madame Minard, la Peyrade left the house, asking himself again and again whether he had played his game properly. On leaving Madame de Godollo, la Peyrade felt the necessity of gathering himself together.
Thus his clothes were much shredded by bullets and his person grievously lacerated. But he bore it all patiently. In the beginning of his pilgrimage he used often to say, "Ah, if I could but hear the 'Sweet By-and-by'!" But toward the end of it he used to shed tears of anguish and say, "Ah, if I could but hear something else!"
And Arjuna, who bore a circlet of crowns on his head, gave an account of what had happened to him in the forest to Krishna, the elder brother of Gada.
Dot bore it stoutly for awhile, until he could resist no longer, and there was a flowery battle going on under the trees. It was quite late in the day when the tired children arrived home. Carrie fairly hugged Dot when the overflowing baskets were placed at her feet. "These are for all the sick women and little children," answered Dot, solemnly; "we worked so hard, Flurry and I."
The car or vessel suspended below, and to which the balloon part bore the relation of masts and sails, was fashioned after the best model of a clipper ship, but still farther elongated. Below deck, it was divided into sitting and dining cabins, state-rooms, kitchen, engine-room, and so forth; and above was a long, railed, promenade deck.
The boy, perhaps two years older than Aladdin, was big and strong for his age, and bore his shining head like a young wood-god. Margaret ran to him, telling her story as she went, but so incoherently that when she reached him she had to stop and begin over again. "Then Senator St. John is your father?" said the boy at length. "You know, he's a great friend of my father's.
The burden of concealment seemed too heavy to be borne in the presence of the priest and yet, torment as it was, he still bore it!
Hearne". So the struggle ended, and we resumed our route, Mr. Petulengro sitting sideways upon his horse as before, and I driving my little pony-cart; and when we had proceeded about three miles, we came to a small public-house, which bore the sign of the Silent Woman, where we stopped to refresh our cattle and ourselves; and as we sat over our bread and ale, it came to pass that Mr.
He even had praise, when praise made German virtue seem by that much greater; and the inference from first to last was of German super-virtue. Some one in the crowd who bore a bullet-mark in proof he did not jest suggested to him that the British army was the biggest and fiercest in the world.
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