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Pounce sipped the water and appeared to revive. "I have suffered terribly during the last three weeks," he said at last. "Have you really?" Beth rejoined with concern. "What was the matter?" "Need you ask!" he ejaculated. "Why, why have you treated me so?" "Really, Mr. Pounce, I do not see that you have any claim on my special consideration," Beth answered coldly.
The clergy at the South were by this time generally united in the defense of slavery. At the North, there was great variety among them. Many ministers ignored slavery as apart from their province. Many spoke of it occasionally as a sin, but regarded it as little concerned with that daily life of their people which was their main concern.
Boswell, I think, misunderstands Johnson. Among them Lord Marchmont is not found, so that on him no slight is cast. Neither does Johnson actually say that Lord Marchmont had 'any concern, though perhaps he implies it.
The pagan believes in the existence of a Supreme Being, though, his idea of that Being's benignity and consideration relates solely to an earthly oversight of him, and a concern for his daily wants. His conception of future bliss is almost wholly sensual, and wrapped up with the notion of an unrestrained indulgence of animal appetite, and a whole-souled abandonment to feasting and dancing.
Later, when her husband, full of concern at her discomfort, came upstairs to sit on the edge of her bed and ask her how she felt, she told him what had happened. "I wouldn't see him for anything," she said, gasping; "even his voice just about killed me! Oh, Carl, suppose I were to like him? Oh, what shall I do? I don't want to like him."
Our concern with this passage at present is only so far as it affords a presumption in support of the proposition which we maintain, concerning the activity and sufferings of the first teachers of Christianity.
And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird a silly little bird. Then I remembered there was a big concern, a Company for trade on that river. Dash it all! I thought to myself, they can't trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh water steamboats! Why shouldn't I try to get charge of one?
"You don't like the thought of leaving London, Hester!" said her mother with concern: she thought it was because of Vavasor. "I am very glad for you and papa, mother dear," answered Hester. "I was thinking of my poor people, and what they would do without me." "Wait my child," returned her mother, "I have sometimes found the very things I dreaded most serve me best.
He did not refuse me his hand; but he gave it with a coldness and distance for which I was quite unprepared, and his countenance, as he looked on me, was marked in a strong degree with concern and severity. 'So, sir, I find you here? said he, in tones of little encouragement. 'Is that you, George? You can run away; I have business with your master.
It told me that before the end had come he had watched his death approach and threaten him. "I was so sure he had been murdered that I instinctively looked on the floor for the weapon, and, at the same moment, out of concern for my own safety, quickly behind me; but the silence of the house continued unbroken.
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