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The whole island was thoroughly cultivated, and produced bread-fruit, cocoanut trees, plantains, bananas, shaddocks, yams, and other roots, the sugar-cane, and a fruit like a nectarine. The roads also were so well laid out that there was an easy communication from one part of the island to the other in every direction.

Ted and Jimmy listened breathlessly. "Oh, if I could only play like that!" said Ted wistfully. Blair Milford smiled. "You will play much better some day if you get the proper training," he said. "You have a wonderful talent, my boy, and you should have it cultivated. It will never in the world do to waste such genius.

His mother, a beautiful, foolish, whimsical, hard-riding heiress, the last of a long line, had married the youngest son the one brilliant, cultivated member of a family as ancient, as uneducated, and as prosaic as her own. Wentworth was the result of that union.

It isahit’serit is, in short, the effect of a carefully cultivated mind and good blood.” “But don’t you think Mr Bunker cultivated, mammaandandwell-bred?”

And the future influx of population to them will be mainly from the North or from the most cultivated nations in Europe. From the sufferings that have attended them during our late struggle let us look away to the future, which is sure to be laden for them with greater prosperity than has ever before been known.

He read easily, naturally like a cultivated layman, not like a clergyman; like a man who wished to convey the simple meaning of what he read, reverently, honestly. On the many occasions when I heard him read the service, I noticed that he never changed the opening sentence, though there were, of course, others from which to choose.

"You are a chivalrous man, Decurio!" "I am what you are; I know your character, and the same feeling inspires us both. You love your nation, as I do mine. Your nation is great and cultivated; mine is despised and neglected, and my love is more bitterly devoted. Your love for your country makes you happy; mine deprives me of peace.

"Hello, Rolls!" he called out. "You're just the man I want. Will you do me a great favour in a big hurry?" Petro, whose inmost self had also been absent on some errand, came to earth again with a slight start. "Hello!" he echoed, hastening his steps. He did not care much for Logan, who had been a classmate of his at college, and whose acquaintance he had not cultivated since.

Along all the country roads, growing upon the stone walls and fences, were delicious red raspberries, which are much finer flavored than the cultivated kinds. Later on, when August laid her golden treasures in the lap of Mother Earth, the blackberries ripened in wild profusion. First in the open pasture came the low bushberries, and then the high bushberries along the edge of the forest.

'Nor her father either, rejoined my father. 'He was cultivated indeed, but a fool. My mother sighed and sank into thought. My father said no more. I felt very uncomfortable during this conversation. After dinner I went into the garden, but without my gun. I swore to myself that I would not go near the Zasyekins' garden, but an irresistible force drew me thither, and not in vain.