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They knew that they must not only provide plenty of food for the winter, but also for the spring months, when they could get little to eat beside the buds and bark of some sort of trees, and the chance seeds that might still remain in the pine-cones. Thus the autumn months passed away very quickly and cheerfully with the squirrels while preparing for the coming winter.
Her obedience to her spouse appears to have been the most cheerfully rendered upon those delicate emergencies when the service of the state required her submission to the embraces of another! XI. We now come to the most melancholy and gloomy part of the Spartan system the condition of the Helots. The whole fabric of the Spartan character rested upon slavery.
Hester in high spirits cheerfully obeyed, and rubbed out the stains so neatly, that her mother could not help lamenting that so handy a girl was going to be spoiled, by being taught godliness, and learning any such nonsense. Mrs. Jones, who knew the world, told her agent, Mrs. Crew, that her grand difficulty would arise not so much from the children as the parents.
It is a comfort to me to think that every workman I have is the better, not the worse, off for my owning it; there's no blood or dirt on my money; and I leave it to you to keep it clean and to take care of the men as well as the business." "Now, wasn't he a d fool!" said Armorer, cheerfully, taking out his note-book to mark. "See abt road M D " And he went in.
"There is a tree yonder where the bank shelves over; we had better tie the horses up, dress, and eat some breakfast," said John, almost cheerfully; and accordingly they proceeded towards it.
Drake conducted him to the captain's cabin when he went on board of the prize, where he met Captain Rombold, with whom he exchanged friendly greetings. "Fellow passengers again, Mr. Passford; but you are going to your reward, and I to my punishment," said the late commander very cheerfully. "Hardly to my reward, for I neither desire nor expect any further promotion," replied Christy.
There was no more fighting, cursing, or driving and the work on board was done promptly and cheerfully. In a conversation with one of the two young fellows who were the special victims of the wounded mate's ferocity, Paul ascertained that he was a delicate and well educated youth from Hartford, Connecticut, whose romantic dream for years had been to go to sea.
"Now that you mention it, it seems as if I had heard it." "I've always wanted to apologize to Mr. Garrison, though I do not know him he does not know me," said the girl softly, pleating the gelding's mane at a great rate. "It was all a mistake, of course. I wonder I wonder if if he held it against me!" "Oh, very likely he's forgotten all about it long ago," said Garrison cheerfully.
However," he added cheerfully, "all C.O.'s are not so bad as that brute out there, nor the half of them for the matter of that." "But, still, it's a wonder what you stand, you combatants," Dr. James observed. "Shut up, doctor," Captain Bartlet rejoined good-naturedly, "Don't presume upon your superior position.
Yet even then he rose with a smile, and thus preserved his reputation; yet I knew that his money bags must be chafing his heart, as well as that, had the stake been twice or thrice as much again, he would still have restrained himself from venting his disappointment. On the other hand, I saw a Frenchman first win, and then lose, 30,000 francs cheerfully, and without a murmur.
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