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And a first guarantee of this sanity will be to act as if we understood that the fundamental duty of a government is to preserve order, to enforce obedience of the laws. It has been held hitherto that a man can be depended on as a guardian of order only when he has much money and comfort to lose.
Osmond had a great dislike to being counted on; in such a case he had an irresistible need of disappointing you. It was in virtue of this principle that he gave himself the entertainment of taking a fancy to a perpendicular Bostonian whom he had been depended upon to treat with coldness. He asked Isabel if Mr.
Other dolls got their hair mussed or their clothes untidied or something; but Kewpie could always be depended on to be neat and smiling no matter where he slept or what happened to him a most satisfactory doll to take to bed as you can see. Mary Jane ran into her room to get him but her bed was all neatly made and Kewpie was nowhere to be seen. "Kewpie's lost too," called Mary Jane.
I have always thought you a little vain and careless, I confess, but at the same time I imagined you had both good sense and generosity in your character; I depended upon first to make you see your faults, and upon the second to correct them. Tommy. Dear sir, I am very much obliged to you; but you have always been extremely kind and friendly to me. Mr Barlow.
Rude as the system was, it gave shape and order to what had before been mere chaos. The ranger marks a new era, then; his existence is another chapter in the history of the west. Previous to his time, each pioneer depended only on himself for defence his sole protection, against the wild beast and the savage, was his rifle self-dependence was his peculiar characteristic.
In that stage of existence a man was just like the brutes. His existence was at the sport of Nature. He got what he could by way of food, and ate what he could get, but he depended on finding what Nature gave. He could wrest nothing from Nature; he could make her produce nothing; and he had only his limbs with which to appropriate what she offered.
To deny it is absurd; to accept it is final. "What is your impression of the French and Belgian hospitals?" Her Majesty inquired. I replied that none were so good as the English, that France had always depended on her nuns in such emergencies, and, there being no nuns in France now, her hospital situation was still not good. "The priests of Belgium are doing wonderful work," I said.
Then get off your horses. Mind, on no account whatever are you to leave their bridles, but stand with one hand on the saddle, ready to throw yourself into it. Keep two blue-lights, and give me one. Don't speak a word, but listen as if your lives depended upon detecting a sound, as indeed they do.
Father, you are to go with me to the church you and Virgie. Mr. Tilghman is to marry us." "Now, Vesta," spoke the young man, as her father left the room, "whom are you going to marry, cousin, in such haste as this?" "Did you have the church made ready, William, as I requested?" "I did. The sexton is there now, lighting the fire." "I thought you were loyal as ever, William, and depended upon you.
I felt like myself again, even if I hadn't had any dinner or supper. Pride came to me that night on the walk-around, watching the boats go by little boats, big boats, the Boston boat with all her pearls and her dance-music. They couldn't see me; they didn't know who I was; but to the last of them, they depended on me. They say a man must be born again. Well, I was born again.
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