United States or Uganda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Then for some reason known only to you and Shan Tung you have sold or are intending to sell yourself to him!" It was not a question. It was an accusation. He saw the flush of anger fading out of her cheeks. Her body relaxed, her head dropped, and slowly she nodded in confirmation. "Yes, I am going to sell myself to him." The astounding confession held him mute for a space.
"We belonged to the parish of St Knud, and the candidates for confirmation could either enter their names with the provost or with the chaplain. The children of the so-called superior families, and the scholars of the grammar-school, went to the first, and the children of the poor to the second.
As for these orphans, whose parents were victims to the cruel laws that are grinding us, I have so trained and indoctrinated them into a knowledge of their creed, and a sense of their duty, that they are thoroughly trustworthy. On this very day I administered to them the sacrament of confirmation.
He gave her his arm, and, Eugene trotting after them, they hurried to the nearest stairs, remembering in dire confirmation what Betty had heard from the school-girl.
And with each sentence Nathan would call for confirmation on a silent, dark-faced daughter who sat inside: "Didn't he, Betsy?" or "Wasn't he, gal?" And the girl would nod sullenly, but say nothing.
"And a householder you've become already, by all accounts. I don't set much store by Town Quay talk as a rule " "That's right," interrupted Mr Rogers. "There's no man ought to know its worth better than you, that sets most of it goin'." "They do say as you've started by leasin' the two cottages in Harbour Terrace." "Do they?" Captain Cai glanced at the ship-chandler for confirmation.
The value of her heroic effort, which, for all its courage, utterly failed, lies for us in the confirmation it gives to our analysis of the causes of the Gothic failure to establish an enduring government in the West.
In a word, Simon Loggerheads was a personage, if not talkative. They went into the drawing-room. Mary Morfe closed the door gently. Simon Loggerheads strolled vaguely and self-consciously up to the fireplace, murmuring: "So he's gone out?" "Yes," said Mary Morfe, in confirmation of her first statement. "I'm sorry!" said Simon Loggerheads. A statement which was absolutely contrary to the truth.
At this confirmation of the first telegram the eyes of the president were lighted up with a sudden flame; he clenched his hands, and was heard to mutter "It is true, then! It is possible, then! the Frenchman does exist! and in a fortnight he will be here! But he is a madman! I never can consent."
The East-Siders, when they captured a West-Sider, went to work with less ceremony; they simply thrashed their captive soundly and let him run, if run he could. Thus months passed. The parson's Confirmation Class ceased, and both the opposing chieftains were confirmed on the same day; but Viggo stood at the head of the candidates, while Halvor had his place at the bottom.
Word Of The Day