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"God has made you to be nobler, and greater, and better than any of us, if you only would " "Too late," he said. "After all I have been, and all I have done " "Too late! Harry with a whole lifetime before you to do God real, strong service in?" "It won't ever cancel that " I tried to tell him what had cancelled all; but perhaps I did not do it well enough, for he did not seem to enter into it.
Well, from here the story gets pretty mushy, so we'd better make it short. This delightful couple soon held hands; they discovered anon that their lips fit together pretty well, Arissa's ten years' worth of plans were miraculously cancelled, and Sir Percival finally asked the Big Question, to which Arissa replied, "Well, okay."
I was thirty-one; I was the head of a family; I had lost my health; I had never yet paid my way, never yet made 200 pounds a year; my father had quite recently bought back and cancelled a book that was judged a failure: was this to be another and last fiasco?
"Previous S.O.S. line is cancelled, as it is found that the hillside is so steep that our troops in Tino Support Trench may be hit. "Complaints of short shooting have been frequent all day. Henceforth S.O.S. will be as follows...."
I have succeeded in reading some of the lines; and perhaps after a keener scrutiny the whole passage might become legible. Nearly forty lines of dialogue that follow are cancelled in the MS., in order to shorten the scene. Not marked in MS. This passage is marked in pencil, as for omission, in the MS. The words "Upon my soule" are crossed through in the MS.
He saw, worse luck, that she wore a little knot of roses on the breast of her natty jacket, but that they were not his. He faltered something to the effect that he had been trying to see her ever since the night of the fire had so much to thank her for; and her white, even, beautiful teeth gleamed as she laughingly answered that the cherries had more than cancelled the score.
I pushed on as best I was able but under my feet rivers of water were quickly formed, which cancelled all traces and made me lose my bearings, whilst the fear of being again lost began to trouble me.
Some steps were taken to please the proletariate for instance, the restrictions on the distribution of grain introduced some years ago, were probably now once more removed; the design of Gaius Gracchus to found a colony at Capua was in reality carried out in the spring of 671 on the proposal of the tribune of the people, Marcus Junius Brutus; Lucius Valerius Flaccus the younger introduced a law as to debt, which reduced every private claim to the fourth part of its nominal amount and cancelled three fourths in favour of the debtors.
'That charming woman with the shining bunch of hair and convolvuluses? 'Yes: it is through her that we are brought here, and through her writing that poem, "Cancelled Words," that the book was sent me, and through the accidental renewal of acquaintance between us on Anglebury Heath, that she wrote the poem.
Meanwhile he himself had been doing his best to wind up affairs. The elaborate will of twenty years earlier, with its many legacies and bequests, had been cancelled by Sir Arthur only six weeks before his death.
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