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The facts, negatively stated, are briefly and plainly these: There is not a religious revival in progress among the wretched dwellers in Water street dance-halls, and sailors' boarding-houses, nor has there been of late, as represented to the public. Neither Allen, Tommy Hadden, Slocum, nor 'Kit' Burns are 'converted' or reformed men, all accounts to the contrary notwithstanding.
A scheme has been proposed which has so far met with favour that a committee, including persons of every class, has been formed to promote it. Briefly it is as follows: The Continuation school is to be established in this country. The difficulties of the situation will be met, not by compelling the children to attend, but by persuading and attracting them.
Swain stated it very briefly in English. His quiet laugh prodigiously disconcerted the pettifogger, who had before been sufficiently ill at ease in the presence of the great lawyer. Mr. Tucker blew his nose loudly to hide his confusion. "And what say you, Richard?" said Mr. Swain, without a shade of accent in his voice. I bowed my head.
You've sent that doctor chap about his business, haven't you?" "He has gone, yes." She answered him briefly to hide the intolerable pain at her heart the words called up. "But you're still hankering after him; is that it?" sneered Hunt-Goring. "Well, then, listen to me! I hold that man's future in my hands. I can ruin him utterly or I can forbear. I'm not over-fond of him, as you know.
"Might float her, if the tide got extra high," he said. "Eleven men in our crowd and five in your own ought to be able to do something, surely." "The captain says the ship is too deep in the sand," answered Dick briefly. "Blossom don't know everything," growled the mate. Both he and Baxter soon found some comfortable clothing, and put it on.
"Do the doctors answer for his life?" asked the captain. "I can't get my niece to leave the ground till she is satisfied of that." Mr. Speedwell heard the question and replied to it briefly from the top of the pavilion steps. "For the present yes," he said. The captain thanked him, and disappeared. They entered the pavilion. The necessary restorative measures were taken under Mr.
He had relinquished that notion of attempting a new business life, which had briefly revived in his mind; the same causes that had operated against it in the beginning, controlled and defeated it now. He felt himself too old to begin life over; his energies were spent.
"No," he said briefly, and then stood leaning against his writing-table, and was silent. "Hubert," said his sister, a little more quickly than usual, "I said that I wanted to see my dentist, but I had another reason for coming to town.
Although these memoirs relate to personal services in Brazil, it is nevertheless essential, in order to their comprehension, briefly to recapitulate a few events which more immediately led to my connection with the cause of independence in that country.
Our fowls were to multiply so rapidly and consistently that within a short space of time Dorsetshire would be paved with them. Our eggs were to increase in size till they broke records and got three-line notices in the "Items of Interest" column in the Daily Mail. Briefly, each hen was to become a happy combination of rabbit and ostrich. "There is certainly a good time coming," I said.
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