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'Excuse me, Mother, but is he a clergyman? she asked with a touch of alarm. 'Whatever makes you think that, child? 'Clergymen are always called the reverundhenry. He'll wear black and have socks that want mending. 'He shouldn't punt his letters, declared Monkey. 'He's not an author, is he?
"I should hope so!" exclaimed Elise, with a withering glance. "The idea of anybody being in such company as you must have been " "Not at all," Azalea declared; "I wasn't mixed up with anybody unpleasant at all. In fact, I talked to no one but the Bixbys and Mr. Merritt. Mrs. Bixby was most kind and looked after me as a mother might have done, though I never knew a mother's care."
Long says: "Meade declared that the position could not be carried without the loss of thirty thousand men. This contingency was too terrible to be entertained yet the rations of the men were nearly exhausted, and nothing remained but retreat. This was safely accomplished on the night of December 1st...."
After the treaty was signed, the "Aurora" declared that the President had violated the Constitution, and made a treaty with a nation abhorred by our people; that he answered the respectful remonstrances of Boston and New York as if he were the omnipotent director of a seraglio, and had thundered contempt upon the people with as much confidence as if he sat upon the throne of "Industan."
Captain Patterdale's hat was still there; and, unluckily, there was something else belonging to him which was not there. Captain Patterdale worked with the doctor for a full hour upon poor Michael, who at the end of that time opened his eyes, and soon declared that he was "betther entirely."
"I won't sell for par," he declared stubbornly. "Julia revealed to me that I wouldn't, and so I sha'n't. I'll sell for fifty cents a share extry, but I won't sell for twenty flat. Rather than do that I'll go to them Cabot folks myself and see if I can't find out who's buyin' and why. Then I'll go to the real buyers and make the best trade I can with them.
They declared independence, and that immortal act, pronounced on the 4th of July, 1776, made them independent. That was an act of union by the United States in Congress assembled. But this act of itself did nothing to establish over them a general government. They had a Congress. They had Articles of Confederation to prosecute the war.
Then, unwillingly, she drew away from his protecting arm. "My dear," she said, "you look so nice as you are, and it is such happiness to be here, but there is a great task before us." "You are right," he declared, straightening himself. "Wait for a few minutes, dear. We shall find them all at Westminster the place will be open all night. Close your eyes and rest while I am away."
Enough that she was recognised as having, and declared herself to have, direct authoritative communications from God. For what did Josiah need to inquire of the Lord 'concerning the words of this book'? They were plain enough.
He went forth, but soon returned with a radiant countenance. To his surprise and delight the coachman had actually brought back the guinea. While he launched forth in praise of this unlooked-for piece of honesty, he declared it ought not to go unrewarded.
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