United States or Bahamas ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
If in their contemptible, pharisaical notions of morality they choose to forget what my mother and father were to them, they cease to exist for me. If it's the last act of my life I'm going to tell them so." She stood gazing at him, but she was as one of whom he took no account.
Then in the midst of the joy this caused, he said, "And her heart is softened, and she will read it to you herself; you are to choose your own time." "What does she think there are none can read but her?" asked Catherine. "Let her send the letter and we will read it." "Nay, but, mother," objected little Kate; "mayhap she cannot bear to part it from her hand; she loves him dearly."
A few old churchyards look very much as they used to, except, of course, in Boston, where the gravestones have been rooted up and planted in rows with walks between them, to the utter disgrace and ruin of our most venerated cemeteries. Among living people none remain so long unchanged as the actors. I can see the same Othello to-day, if I choose, that when I was a boy I saw smothering Mrs.
"O, certainly," said Hilda, laughing; "if you choose to trust me with business." "Nay, it is not a matter of any difficulty," answered Miriam; "merely to take charge of this packet, and keep it for me awhile." "But why not keep it yourself?" asked Hilda. "Partly because it will be safer in your charge," said her friend.
After this I didn't know but I would sometime venture in, but for fear of what might happen I concluded to choose a time when I hadn't run away from Liz! When I presented Nellie to Mrs. Hudson she took both her hands in hers, and, greatly to my surprise, kissed her on both cheeks.
I mean nothing but what's honest. I don't mean to ask for any good round sum; for the plum-tree has done me no great harm by coming into my garden; but only I don't choose it should come there without my leave." "Well, well," said the attorney, "I understand all that; but what I want to make you, Mr.
"Noblesse oblige, or honor among thieves, whichever maxim you choose. I doubt not that in his younger days each of the eminently respectable trio you mention was no more a model of morality than is Mr. Forrest.
It surely betokens a low moral stage of civilization that so many, nevertheless, choose the Paquin gowns and the six-course dinners. Luxury is better than simplicity if it can be the luxury of all. If not, it means selfishness, callousness, and broken bonds of brotherhood.
You can choose whether you have me in your room all night or whether you and I spend a happy time in that dear little bower in the plantation." "I cannot choose either," said Rosamund stoutly, "for I will tell you what did happen. I promised Professor Merriman that I would have nothing to do with you for a whole week. At the end of that time I was to give him my decision.
Johnson's Hebrides, or Walton's Lives, unless you would like a neat edition of Cowper's poems or Paradise Lost for your own eating? In any case choose something which you do not possess. I want you to become a complete Frenchman, that I may give you Racine, the only dramatic poet I know in any modern language that is perfectly pure and good.
Word Of The Day