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I shall always maintain the most perfect union and understanding with M. le Marquis de Montcalm, but I shall be forced to take measures which will assure to our Canadians and Indians treatment such as their zeal and services merit." The above extracts are somewhat condensed in the translation.
I noticed, later in the day, that it was to Miss West that Wada went for instructions as to the quantity of warm water he must use to dilute Possum's condensed milk. Lunch won my continued approbation of the cook. In the afternoon I made a trip for'ard to the galley to make his acquaintance. To all intents he was a Chinese, until he spoke, whereupon, measured by speech alone, he was an Englishman.
Dodge, as master, of this vessel, I beg to return you the united, or as Saunders would say, the condensed thanks of the passengers, for this information; and next Saturday we look for a renewal of the pleasure. The ladies are getting to be sleepy, I perceive, and as Mr.
For this reason, he modestly says, he "ventured to play David to Mr. Buchanan's Philistine." Mr. Thus much for the origin of the work, and now for its character. "I have condensed in its pages," the writer says, "much religious experience, and long and ardent thought on spiritual matters." No doubt he believes this statement, but is it true?
As it is, I can only supply a sort of condensed statement, something about a nymph, a moonlit lake, the spirit of the glen, nice catchy phrases every one, with a line thrown in from Shelley about an 'orbéd maiden with white fire laden. Let me go back a hundred yards, Miss Wynton, and I shall return with the whole thing in order." "With such material I believe you would bring me a sonnet." "No.
While the Earth's crust was still thin, the ridges produced by its contraction must not only have been small, but the spaces between these ridges must have rested with great evenness upon the subjacent liquid spheroid; and the water in those arctic and antarctic regions in which it first condensed, must have been evenly distributed.
Again, it is a common opinion that our condensed histories lack life and movement. This is due in part to their being written generally from a study of second-hand not original materials. Those of the Athenian and the Roman are mainly the original. I do not think, however, that we may infer that we have a much greater mass of materials, and thereby excuse our modern prolixity.
So, leaving Don and Dot to watch the cubs, Mike went to the cook's cabin and hunted for a bottle with a slender neck. With a red-hot wire he bored a small hole through a cork and, after filling the bottle with diluted condensed milk and oatmeal gruel, he drove the cork into the neck. He wrapped the bottle inside his coat and hurried over to the cabin with it.
It was short, a duel condensed and crowded into fifteen seconds of time, and it was rapid beyond the power of words to describe. A bystander, had there been one, could not have seen what was finally done or how it was done. Father Beret's sword seemed to be revolving it was a halo in front of Hamilton for a mere point of time.
Although he himself never witnessed a total eclipse of the sun, he carefully collected and compared the remarks of those more fortunate, and concluded that the ring of "flame-like splendour" seen on such occasions was caused by the reflection of the solar rays from matter condensed in the neighbourhood either of the sun or moon.
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