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Rivers?" said Ashby, earnestly. "Oh no, that would make all our preparations childish," was the reply. "We have appealed to Fortune, and her decision has been given." Ashby drew a long breath. "Mr. Rivers," said he, "I cannot shoot an unarmed man in cold blood." "But what can we do?" said Harry. "Why, we may be able to borrow a couple of rifles, or even one rifle, from our friends here."

But then she would want to be 'pretty. I'm afraid I should only make her childish." "Oh, she's prepared for the worst. You had better paint her. It will do you a lot of good. Besides, you paint better when you're a little contemptuous." "I'm not sure that I could take that attitude toward Miss Challoner," he said slowly. "She's too good for the crowd she runs with, that's sure, and "

It is therefore rather childish to put all these workings of the spirit on another plane and in another world than the workings of the brain since they are in great part of the same nature as the last named and they contain so many material elements.

The fondness for parti-coloured and brilliant ornaments shows the want of a proper taste, which is sadly confirmed by the Gallic coins with their representations sometimes exceedingly simple, sometimes odd, but always childish in design, and almost without exception rude beyond parallel in their execution.

It does not avail them to say that the Irish Party had been guilty of treachery to Ireland, that it misled the Ministry as to the extent and depth of Ulster's irreconcilability, and that it had betrayed its own supporters by reposing a childish faith in Liberal promises.

I heard the childish wail of Alice, and my own cry arose with hers, as we beheld the features of our parent, fierce with the strife and distorted with the pain, in which his spirit had passed away. As I gazed, a cold wind whistled by, and waved my father's hair.

It does the more surprise me therefore that so many thousand people should be possessed with the childish passion of desiring so often to see a parcel of horses gallop, and men standing upright in their chariots. If, indeed, it were the swiftness of the horses, or the skill of the men that attracted them, there might be some pretence of reason for it.

Middleton, slacking his horse's speed, as he caught sight of Ishmael. "Yes, it is he! And look at him! does he look like a boy who is thinking of playing marbles and spinning tops?" inquired Miss Claudia. Indeed, no! no one who saw the child could have connected childish sports with him.

Other funerals have I seen with grown-up eyes, since that day, of which the burden has been the same childish burden. Making game.

Soon her eyes recovered their accustomed hardness; her features became more dry, more pale and angular. "What do you wish?" she said rudely; "because you certainly have not come merely for the pleasure of seeing me!" The moment had arrived! Jaime lowered his eyes with childish hypocrisy, and, afraid of broaching his actual desires, he began his attack in a roundabout manner.