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Priscilla and her affianced chose this for their Sabbath walk, for it is only through nature that the Protestants in Macao can worship nature's God, and surely the incense of flowers could bear to Him on high the thanksgiving of those two happy hearts, as truly as the frankincense and myrrh which the good Fathers of the last century burnt upon Mt. Nillau.
I chose Clear because he was like Vrain. I made the scar on the cheek, and I thought he would die soon, being consumptive." "And you killed him?" "No! No! I swear I did not kill him!" "Did you not take that stiletto from Berwin Manor?" "No! I never did! I am telling the truth! I do not know who killed Clear." "Did you not visit Wrent in Jersey Street?" "Yes.
Livingstone, for looks' sake, had changed her tactics, saying, "'Lena could come down if she chose she was sure there was nothing to prevent." Knowing this, Anna had exhausted all her powers of eloquence upon her cousin.
Why not go back to London and tell his mother that her early confidence had not been misplaced, that the lad did know how to take care of himself, and better still of any woman whom he chose to honour with his bright, pure-hearted friendship? All this I felt as strongly as any conviction I have ever held. Why, then, could I not write it at once to Catherine in as many words?
And a pair of clever hands that were never idle. He had given her leave to make any changes she chose in the house, and she was for ever stitching away at white muslin, or tacking it over pink calico. These affairs made their little home very spick and span, and kept Polly from feeling dull if one could imagine Polly dull! With the cooking alone had there been a hitch in the beginning.
'It was the farthest west clearing then, and my father chose the site because of the spring yonder, which is covered with a stone and civilised into a well now-a-days. 'And is the town so modern as all that comes to? said Robert. 'Twenty years grows a city in Canada, replied Mr. Holt, somewhat loftily.
Thus by the love of the Creator he overcame the love of man, and instead of human comfort he chose rather God's good pleasure. So also learn thou to resign any near and beloved friend for the love of God. Nor take it amiss when thou hast been deserted by a friend, knowing that we must all be parted from one another at last.
The others might treat them as they chose; he, at least, would neither say anything to them nor bow before them as the ears did before Joseph in Holy Writ. Nevertheless, he looked out of the corner of his eye at them as he took from the basket of the round- checked kitchen maid, who had now found her way to him, one fresh brown roll after another, and placed them beside plate after plate.
"Are you happy, boy?" he asked. "But you need not tell me I know you are not. I am sorry to find you placed in this fearful position, but it was through your own fault you chose to come against orders. It is bad for us, but then we came because it was our duty." "I am sure I am very sorry I did come," answered Archy. "But I didn't think this would happen."
But the creek, or strait, that cut off the isle from the main-land of the Ross, opened out on the north into a bay, and the bay again opened into the Sound of Iona; and it was the neighbourhood of this place that I chose to be my home; though if I had thought upon the very name of home in such a spot, I must have burst out weeping. I had good reasons for my choice.
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