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But he was not a man so carried away by anger or by a spirit of revenge as to be altogether indifferent to his own future happiness. There had already been some among his fellow-citizens, or perhaps citizenesses, kind enough to compliment him on his good-nature.

Unannounced by heraldic symbolism but unconcealable by reason of nature's own blazonry, were several citizens and citizenesses of the great republic of the Western world.

The mixedness of the pleasure came from certain highly respectable citizens, and more often citizenesses, of la ville de La Ferte Mace; who had a habit of endowing the poor water-catchers with looks which I should not like to remember too well, at the same moment clutching whatever infants they carried or wore or had on leash spasmodically to them.

For a moment it seemed as if a slight mounting of the blood to her wrinkled cheeks was visible. In the next her features resumed their stiffness, and she answered, "Tush! that is the business of citizenesses." "You too have had your dream; I have heard of it," Cyrène persisted. "Women are women, whatever their sphere."

And the girls who to-day pay homage to Rizal and dedicate their songs and prayers to him, will to-morrow be citizenesses who will not, like unhappy Maria Clara, be made the victims of social injustice, but will help to banish social injustice and strive for justice, virtue, and the glory and greatness of their native land. Yes; I cherish that hope and have faith in the liberty of woman.

Orchardina basked and prospered; its citizens found their homes happier and less expensive than ever before, and its citizenesses began to wake up and to do things worth while. Two years, and there was a small Ross Warden born. She loved it, nursed it, and ran her business at long range for some six months.

"Really," I said. "Yes," he replied, "I was this morning at the Mairie; there was a crowd before it complaining that they could not get meat. A gentleman a functionary got upon a stool. 'Citizens and citizenesses, he said, 'be calm; continue to preserve the admirable attitude which is eliciting the admiration of the world.

On Sundays and holidays the citizens trooped down, on visiting bent, and the lonely officer on duty solaced himself by playing the cicerone especially to the citizenesses with engaging manners and a well-developed sense of the fun that may be got out of the inspection of a ship's cabins and state-rooms.

This patriot had a short jacket of blue cloth, and could step as light and give a jump as if she had feathered heels. She reminded me of certain citizenesses in Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." May God of His great mercy give wisdom and firmness to the rulers of this land. I called upon a clergyman in Manor Hamilton in pursuit of information as to the condition of the laboring class.

I should feel like a lamb being fattened for the sacrifice if I were in her place, cried one of the freeborn American citizenesses, with an air of unmitigated scorn for French ways of conducting this interesting ceremony. 'I should feel like a galley-slave, said the other. 'For she can't go anywhere without Gaston or Mamma at her elbow.