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I shall only let in, hereafter, that part of it that I choose. When I saw a man looking at me, Aunt Dorrie, where before I had been seeing a doctor, there was nothing to do but scamper. He hadn't the least idea what was happening he saw only the bag of bones that he had rescued, but I wasn't going to let him run any risks. You see, I've learned more than some girls."
He was astonished at the numbers of people whom he encountered; and though he knew that the Christians were numerous, yet he did not suppose that so vast a proportion would have the fortitude to choose a life in the catacombs. Nor was he less interested in the dead than in the living.
"Still, is it not a dreary place to choose for a church to stand in?" "The church must stand everywhere. There is no region into which it must not, ought not to enter. If it refuses any earthly spot, it is shrinking from its calling. Here this one stands for the sea as for the land, high-uplifted, looking out over the waters as a sign of the haven from all storms, the rest in God.
"You had better go on, Sir," said the Captain, "and, if you have no objection, inform them you are a passenger of the barge =Pearl=. That will be sufficient, I know, to insure you a hearty welcome, and you can add, if you choose, that we are behind; for my wife and myself are but indifferent walkers, being more accustomed to patrolling the deck of a vessel than climbing these steep hills, so that if you try to conform your pace to ours, you will be quite weary when you reach the dwelling."
"You know more than you choose to avow, Sir," said Sir Jocelyn sternly, "and as you value your life, I command you to speak plainly, and tell me what has happened, and where I shall find Aveline."
They will, I think, choose Monsieur Lenient, the lawyer in Souvigny, who was one of your father's best friends. You can speak to him and tell him what you wish."
"Before he came, I was going to speak to you of a strange misunderstanding which has existed between us and which has just been removed. Now I have a fancy to leave it until later. You will not mind?" "When you choose," Francis assented. "Nothing will make any difference.
"Captain Martin, have you any choice?" inquired Prescott politely. "I didn't win the toss," Hi returned sulkily. "But we'll give you your choice if you have any," Dick insisted. "We'd rather go to bat," Hi observed. "Then, Mr. Umpire," continued Dick, turning to Tozier, "the Centrals choose the field." "Get to your places," nodded Ben. "Martin at bat; Percival on deck," called the score-keeper.
Now he was free to choose; his was the power of direction, his the responsibility; for in the world one must be ranked by his own character and ability, and doomed by his own failures. The boy lifted his burden lightly, and turned with an eager smile to say farewell.
"I came, my dear sister-in-law," said Rupert in his coldest, most incisive voice, "to learn why, since you have come back from your little trip, you choose to remain in the ruins rather than return to your own house and family. The reason is clear to see now. My poor brother!"
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