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Oh, couldn't you die? couldn't you contrive, someway, to die? couldn't you give one great struggle, an' then break your heart at wanst, an' forever!" These words were uttered rapidly, but in a low and cautious voice, for she still feared to awaken those who slept.
But tell us how did you contrive to hear her?" demanded the Princess. "I study with her father, Francois Darbois, so I have become a friend of the family. They asked me to dinner once, and I was early enough to hear Mlle. Esperance play. After dinner we played a very difficult duet together. She had absolute command of her execution and her emotion."
=The Faculty of Wisdom.= But it is not an easy thing to tell the truth of human life, and nothing but the truth. The best of fiction-writers fall to falsehood now and then; and it is only by honest labor and sincere strife for the ideal that they contrive in the main to fulfil the purpose of their art. But the writer of fiction must be not only honest and sincere; he must be wise as well.
Necessity sharpens a man's wits; and it is very curious what people do contrive when they are compelled to do so, especially seamen." "And where are we going to now, Ready?" "Right to the leeward side of the island." "Why do you call it the leeward side of the island?"
Just act respecting that person as if she were capable of any treachery, without showing distrust or dislike in your manner, and nothing will remain in her power; and write to me whenever you wish to hear from me, and if I can be of any real use, I don't care, I'll come: so there's a wise little woman; do as I've said, and depend upon it everything will go well, and I'll contrive before long to get that nasty creature away.
I had therefore the honour of a seat at his table, but not the pleasure of eating, for I was obliged to answer the questions addressed to me from all quarters, and I could not contrive to swallow a single mouthful. I was seated next to the Proto-Papa Bulgari, and I entreated his pardon for having ridiculed Deldimopulo's oracle.
"Are you sure of that? It may have been hard for him, too harder than you think." Maurice was looking out of the window, and did not turn. She shook her head. "The person who cares, can't scheme and contrive. He didn't care. He never really cared for me only for himself; at heart, he was cold and selfish. No, I paid for it all I who hate and shrink from pain, who would do anything to avoid it.
I'll so contrive that the second van won't be ready to start until after it's dusk. When it is ready the men'll go down to fetch their horses I'll give 'em something to get themselves a drink before they come back that'll delay 'em a bit longer. And while they're away, we'll slip you into the van and I shall go with that van to Norcaster.
When she did contrive to find any answer to that question as to what she should do with her life, or rather what she would wish to do with it if she were a free agent, it was generally of a political nature.
The fishermen, nevertheless, contrive to climb them for the sake of the eggs they find there. The 6th of May found us in the river St. Lawrence, between the westernmost point of Anticosti to the north, and Cape Gaspe to the south, in the middle of the channel, surrounded by ships tacking up the stream, bound for Quebec and Montreal.
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