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"Why, Jimmy," was the tremulous answer, "if it led to any trace of my boy it would be the one great hope of my life realized." "You are quite sure that you want to bring him back? That it would be best for all concerned?" he continued meaningly.
Christianity is pessimism, so far as this world is concerned; we see that in such things as the thanksgiving for a' person's death in the burial service, and the prayer that the end of the world may soon come." He paused, and thought for a moment.
"Ah, there are very few men who can do that where a pretty woman is concerned," said Sybil. "Anyhow," returned Carrissima, "I shall not let you go until you have given me your solemn promise. You are not to breathe a word not a syllable." "Of course if you insist " "I do," said Carrissima. "I was idiotic to speak about the odious thing.
They called him the "Napoleon of Wall Street" often enough in the papers; but few people knew so well as I did how much truth there was in the phrase. He seemed never to forget a fact that might be of use to him, in the first place; and he did systematically with the business facts that concerned him what Napoleon did, as I have read, with military facts.
Innocently drawn into the affair, she had, in his view, been quickly guided out again by Ed's luck and wit. Ed had the deadly document. The four men concerned might breathe easily once more.
At a distance from each other of about two-thirds the distance of the moon from the earth, the twin comets meantime moved on tranquilly, so far, at least, as their course through the heaven was concerned.
"I can spend some of my money in paying the expenses of the digging, for excavating on the site. The war will put a stop to all excavating work in Egypt and the Holy Land so far as England is concerned, but if I give sufficient money, you can employ the best Egyptologists in America, so that the work can go on this autumn.
He has seen a little, and but a little, service, and yet, if you will take his word to it, there has not been a great action performed in the field since the Revolution, in which he was not principally concerned.
We have profound sympathy with young people thus circumstanced, especially when they are reticent, and don't give way to sentimental silliness. A good manly and womanly case of this sort of love, in which the parties concerned take a serious header and go deep down, without the smallest intention of ever coming up again, is pleasant to contemplate and agreeable to record.
I was not more fortunate in what had only reference to myself, than in what concerned my pupils. Madam Deybens, in recommending me to her friend Madam de Malby, had requested her to form my manners, and endeavor to give me an air of the world.
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