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The girl went and told her mistress she was harbouring infidels, and told her what they had said about women. "Ah!" said the landlady, "what matters it to me the thoughts my customers have in their brains, so long as their purses are well filled." And when the servant had told of the jewels, she exclaimed "Ah, these are questions which concern all women. Let us go and reason with them.
The mayors and sheriffs seem to have proper concept of their duty in the abstract. The purpose of this statement is to deal with specifications. "The sections of the state which give the greatest concern have large masses of alien residents. Thousands of them do not speak the language.
In the Congressional session and out of it, he was ever on the watch for opportunities to advance the interests of his constituents, and in complying with the daily requests for advice and assistance, he did so, not grudgingly or reluctantly, but with earnestness and hearty good will, as if it were a matter of his own personal concern.
The other refused to listen to anything, took refuge in his egotism, declared that all those matters were no concern of his, that he felt no remorse at being rich, and that those who wished to become rich had, in the main, simply to do as he had done. "Then, logically, this is the end of France, eh?" Boutan remarked maliciously.
I saw with grave concern that my father was ailing more and more. The attacks of his terrible disease came more frequently, and Mr. Pinhorn owned that he could do him no good. He bore his pain with wonderful fortitude, never suffering a complaint to pass his lips. Many a time in after years I recalled his noble courage, which helped me to bear the lesser sufferings which fell to my lot.
"Why havn't you hearn?" was his response. "No," was the laconic reply. "What? not of the launch of the 'Lady-of-the-Lake, on Lake George?" "Ah let me see yes: I think I have seen a paragraph respecting it, in the Sandy Hill newspaper. But pray what have you to do with that?" "To do with it? Why every thing. I am the agent of the concern. I have made up the company, and built the boat.
It may be the firing of a gun; it may be an old semaphore telegraph; it may be the movements of a needle; a look, a gesture, the breaking of a twig by an Indian to tell some one that he has passed that way: a twig broken designedly with this end in view is a letter addressed to whomsoever it may concern, as much as though it had been written out in full on bark or paper.
But, profess to present to the reader not a precise detail of circumstances, according to their order and date, but a series of pictures, endeavouring to exhibit the most striking incidents before the eye or imagination of those whom it may concern, we therefore open a new scene, and bring other actors upon the stage.
Restless and dissatisfied every where, her sister could never obtain her opinion of any article of purchase, however it might equally concern them both: she received no pleasure from anything; was only impatient to be at home again, and could with difficulty govern her vexation at the tediousness of Mrs.
That did not seem to concern him; all he had to do that moment was to get Hermann out of fire, and just as he dragged his legs over the parapet, so that his weight fell firm and solid on to him, he felt what seemed a sharp tap on his right arm, and could not understand why it had become suddenly powerless.
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