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She's gifted in a way I don't understand; but if she isn't twisted by Clarke's foolishness she's going to make some man a good wife. She's a good girl, and, as I say, if she was my own child I'd serve notice that this circle business should stop. I wish you'd talk to 'em. I don't count but they'll listen to you. I'm glad to have met you. I hope you'll come up again.
Then there was young John Howland, who in mid-ocean fell overboard but was quick enough to catch hold of a trailing rope. Perhaps after dinner he invited Elizabeth Tilley, whom he afterward married, to sail over to Clarke's Island and return by moonlight. With them, it may be, went John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, whose love story is so sweetly told by Longfellow.
Clarke's world. One day she said to Dion: "Will you do me a good turn?" "Yes, if I can." "It may bore you." "What is it?" "Read a little bit with Jimmy sometimes, will you? He's abominably ignorant, and will never be a scholar, but I should like him just to keep up his end at school." "But I haven't got any school-books." "I have. He's specially behindhand with his Greek. His report tells me that.
Lewis and Clarke's Travels up the Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-6. 4to. Pike's Exploratory Travels through the Western Territory of North America. 4to. James's Account of an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-20. 3 vols. 8vo. Schoolcraft's Travels to the Sources of the Mississippi. 1820. 8vo. Nuttall's Travels into the Arkansa Territory. 1819. 8vo.
How comes it, I wonder, that the chorale-like air "Blessing, Honour, Adoration" is omitted in Novello's edition? It is given in Clarke's edition and is very beautiful. Jones says of "With darkness deep", that in the accompaniment to this air the monotony of dazed grief is just varied now and again with a little writhing passage.
Gladstone's Homer and the Homeric Age; Rawlinson's Herodotus; Döllinger's Jew and Gentile; Fenton's Lectures on Ancient and Modern Greece; Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology; Clarke's Ten Great Religions; Dwight's Mythology; Saint Augustine's City of God.
Half an hour later a white veil fluttered intimately across a broad, checked shoulder as two stealthy young people slipped under the window of Mr. Clarke's private office and made their way to the street. Dan gave the incident little further thought. He went mechanically about his work, only pausing occasionally at his high desk behind the door to pore over a sheet of paper.
Among the party was Sergeant Clarke, who brought his bagpipes with him. There may be some people who have a prejudice against the bagpipes. This proceeds from defective musical education. Sergeant Clarke's bagpipes proved a potent factor in securing the personal goodwill of the people.
There they proposed to make a minute scrutiny, by the help of Mr. Norton, the deputy-marshal, who was Mr. Clarke's intimate friend, and had nothing at all of the jailor, either in his appearance or in his disposition, which was remarkably humane and benevolent towards all his fellow-creatures.
On the whole, you would sooner he did die. He's in the way." He could not tell whether this shot had reached the mark, for though Clarke's eyes were steadily fixed on him the man's face was inscrutable. "If you're right, it's strange you should urge me to prescribe for him." "There are some precautions I mean to take," said Harding drily. "However, I haven't come here to argue.
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