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He can tell you, if he chooses; I shall not. But let yourself and him take warning from what you already know." "And be the same token, let yourself be taking warning. As sure as I'm the ninth son of the seventh mother, I'll " The hunter was gone! The echoing rock, the rushing flood, The cataract's swell, the moaning wood; The undefined and mingled hums Voice of the desert never dumb!
She caught it again and secured it. "It is dinner time," she said; "come along indoors, there is no reason why you should go hungry because father chooses to." Johnny followed her to the house. When they were indoors he said, "Do you think you don't think he has had an attack? that he is lying unconscious somewhere?"
It often chooses the walls or doors of chambers for this purpose, and when two or three are at work in the same place, their loud humming keeps the house in an uproar. The cell is a tubular structure about three inches in length. T. aurifrons, a much smaller species, makes a neat little nest shaped like a carafe, building rows of them together in the corners of verandahs.
This morning he yearns loudly for muffins, which he calls "bums." He chooses those that are unusually brown with a smudge of the cooking-tin, and these he calls "dirty bums." Such is my nephew a round-cheeked, blue-eyed rogue who takes my thumb in all his fingers when we go walking.
The spell, mesmeric, or clairvoyant, or whatever one chooses to call it, was broken, and she was only Jerrie Crawford again, dressing herself rapidly and noiselessly so as not to awaken her grandmother, who slept in the room beneath hers.
"And a sweet one, too," said Dora, "with a perfect right to go to sleep if she chooses. I should be ashamed of myself if I felt in the least degree offended. Do not let us disturb her until the doctor comes; the nap will do her good." "Suppose, then," said Ralph, "that we take a little turn in the moonlight. Then we need not trouble ourselves to lower our voices."
'Some people, Miss Pollingray said, I permitted themselves to think evil of my brother's assiduous devotion to a married woman. There is not a spot on his character, or on that of the person whom Gilbert loved. I would believe it in the teeth of calumny. I would cling to my belief in him if I were drowning. I consider that those twenty years are just nothing, if he chooses to have them so.
The warmth of that hand-pressing, and the affectionate tone in which her name had been pronounced, and the promise made to her, softened her heart towards her husband. Had he gone to her now and said a word to her in gentleness all might have been made right. But he did not go to her. "If he chooses to be cross and sulky, he may be cross and sulky," said Mrs.
When I speak of an art, I mean a collection of proper means chosen on purpose to arrive at a certain end; or, if you please, it is an order, a method, an industry, or a set design. Chance, on the contrary, is a blind and necessary cause, which neither sets in order nor chooses anything, and has neither will nor understanding.
I would rather it were four days later; but as it is, never mind; it is never too soon to be happy." When Lampron chooses to hold his tongue it is useless to ask him questions. I gave myself up to meditating on the words, "It is never too soon to be happy." We went down the boulevard, past the beer-houses.
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