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It is at such times as these, if at no other, that the stricken and bowed heart turns to the One who alone can cheer and sustain. When shut out from all prospect of human help, and conscious that there is but one arm which is not shortened, we do not draw back from calling upon that arm to sustain us in the dark hour of trial.
Perhaps it reminded him of that vision he had indulged himself with for a few short weeks of the broad Pacific beneath the Ventura hills. Milly felt sorry for her father and did her best to cheer him by giving him a bountiful dinner of the sort of food he liked. She had a faint sense of guilt towards him, as if she might have done more to make life toothsome for him in his old age.
At their head was lord Charles, who had led them to the capture, and without whose ruling presence the enemy would not have been re-caged in twice the time. As they drew near, and saw Dorothy stand in battle-plight, with her dog beside her, even in their lord's presence they could not resist the impulse to cheer her.
Lieutenant Trent led about a dozen men who pressed around Dave Darrin, offering him their hands. "It would take the strongest kind of proof to make me believe anything wrong in you, Darrin," declared Trent. Others in the little group offered similar words of faith and cheer. But Dave broke away from them after expressing his gratitude.
Don't you be alarmed. What's failing? It doesn't mean any thing; and I really hope, now that he has actually failed and done with it, Boniface will be a little more cheerful and liberal. Those parlor curtains are positively too bad! Boniface ought to have plenty of time to himself; and I hope he will give more of those little dinners, and cheer himself up! How is he?" Mrs.
It did not look as though they were likely to return to Miss Tolliver's in the immediate future. "A penny for your thoughts, girls," remarked Miss Jenny Ann suddenly. "Eleanor, dear, I am going to begin with you. We are all in the dumps to-night. Perhaps it will cheer us up to tell one another our thoughts." Eleanor shook her head.
She was more silent than ever before, often when the old man addressed her making no reply. He set down her abstraction to grief over David. When he tried to cheer her, her absorbed preoccupation gave place to the old restlessness, and once again she watched and listened.
Mind that, or you'll find I can be as severe as any master afloat. Purser." "Sir." "Double the men's grog: they have been cheated of their meal." "Ay, ay, sir." "And stop the cook's and his mate's for a week." " Ay, ay, sir." "Bosen, pipe down." "Shipmates, listen to me," said the foretopman. "This old Agra is a d d com for table ship." The oracular sentence was hailed with a ringing cheer.
I made a hasty call at the Rescue Home, and was very pleased with it a really nice little place. "The platform at the station was crowded. A passage was made for me; but I readily reached the compartment, and having five minutes or so made a little speech, which was received with volley after volley, and cheer after cheer.
At last his lordship has secretly sent a man, called Kaji Sazen, a fortune-teller, to arrange an interview between you. So now, my child, you may cheer up, and go to meet your lover as soon as you please." When O Koyo heard this, she was so happy that she thought it must all be a dream, and doubted her own senses.
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