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"Since when have you taken to stump oratory, Betty?" "Oh, she is just naturally eloquent," said Grace languidly and they all laughed, even Frank although his brow clouded anxiously a minute later. "However, all this isn't getting us anywhere," he said. "We can't stay out here in the rain all night, you know." "I don't believe any of us expect to," said Allen, dryly.

"It will serve as a background to his filial virtues and bring them out in bright and beautiful relief. I admire, I honor him a thousand times more than if he were the heir of an unspotted name, a glorious ancestry. A father's crimes cannot reflect shame on a son so pure and upright. Besides, he bears another name, and the world knows not his clouded lineage."

"Your purpose in coming to Stoke Revel?" "A Sentimental Journey, in search of fond relations." "Have you found these relations?" "I've found them; but the fondness is still to seek." "Have you left your family in America?" "I have no one belonging to me in the world," she answered simply, and her bright face clouded suddenly. There was a moment's rather embarrassed silence.

Ah! who does not remember, with a shudder, the despairing thoughts, choking tears, and days of silent misery that clouded his own boyhood, and perhaps even some days of his early manhood? Oublier je ne puis. Poor lady! she had been homesick twenty years. On the afternoon following the conversation recorded in the last chapter, Mrs. Dubois was ready to unfold to Adèle the story of her past life.

I judged that my understanding was affected by my feelings, and so laid the letter away till morning. "In the morning I read it again, but with difficulty and uncertainty still, for I had lost some little rest and my mental vision seemed clouded. The note was more connected, now, but did not meet the emergency it was expected to meet. It was too discursive.

Or was it the darkness of oncoming death that chilled and clouded that star-cool brain of his, and made a mock of all his wisdom? Or was it the blunder that brought death upon him beforehand? I do not know, I shall never know; for it is a matter no one of us dreams of hinting at, much less discussing. I shall begin at the beginning yesterday afternoon.

Enter in imagination into a town like Sicca, and you will understand the great Apostle’s anguish at seeing a noble and beautiful city given up to idolatry. Enter it, and you will understand why it was that the poor priest, of whom Jucundus spoke so bitterly, hung his head, and walked with timid eyes and clouded brow through the joyous streets of Carthage.

They had their little human failings and weaknesses, thanks to Mother Nature, whose children we all are, and who sets her various limitations for the best of us, but, taken on the whole, they were peculiarly unspoilt by the iconoclastic march of progress; and 'advanced' notions of doubt as to a God, and scepticism as to a future state, had never clouded their quiet minds.

On the table lay the dusty, pinched-in hat, through the disreputable crown of which Farrar had lately seen a lock of his brindle hair rising like an aigrette. "Glad to have you join us. We need riders like you. Say, it was worth five dollars to me to see the way you laid out Harrison." The cowpuncher's boyish face clouded. "I'm right sorry about that. It ce'tainly was a fool play.

Dinsmore's pen was suspended over the paper for a moment, while he sat thinking with a somewhat clouded brow; but presently turning to the little girl, he said quite pleasantly, "Very well, Miss Lucy, I am much obliged to you for your information, for I should be very sorry to punish Elsie unjustly.