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Supposing that you, any of you, had had a brother who has done as he has done, would you not still pray, in spite of his crimes, that he might be forgiven? I know you all love my brother. He deserves from you that you should love him well, for he has proved to you that he loves you. He Henri Larochejaquelin your own leader, begs you to forgive the crime of his adopted brother.

The Zambeze, owing to the heroic labours of Dr. Livingstone, is fast becoming familiar to the civilized world; and the Congo is in these days beginning at last to receive the attention which it deserves. It is one of the noblest known to the world.

It is a striking fact that Champlain had helped to found Port Royal before he founded Quebec. He was not the pioneer of Acadian colonization: De Monts deserves the praise of turning the first sod.

Bent said, "You do not owe me a cent," and taking a twenty-dollar gold piece from his pocket, the Colonel handed it to one of the men, saying as he did so, "But you can give this to Mr. Drannan, for he is the one that deserves this and more for what he has done." We mounted our horses and left the Fort and struck the trail for Denver.

That if I think she deserves the compliments I make her, I may pride myself in those arts, by which I have made a fool of so extraordinary a person? That she will take care of herself; and, since her friends thing it not worth while to pursue her, she will be left to her own care? That I shall make Mrs. Sorlings's house more agreeable by my absence? The impolitic charmer!

No one has met with more abuse than Becket, ever since the Reformation. Proud, ostentatious, hypocritical, and rebellious these are the terms usually bestowed on him. How far he deserves them, may be judged from a life detailed with unusual minuteness by three intimate companions, none of them treating him as faultless. Of the rights of the struggle we will not speak.

Now, monsieur, you know what awaits you. Resolve yourself and at once, for these ladies' sake." "But you don't know, Andre-Louis!" Mme. de Plougastel's condition was one of anguish indescribable. She came to him and clutched his arm. "For the love of Heaven, Andre-Louis, be merciful with him! You must!" "But that is what I am being, madame merciful; more merciful than he deserves. And he knows it.

In subordination to the passive intellect, the external faculty, the active reason, is also to be cultivated; it deserves care, like the skin. Evil consists in the absurdity that the creature, who apart from God is nothing, ascribes to himself an independent existence.

"You don't answer my question," Rowland said. "You have no right, that I know of, to ask it. But it 's a very clever one; so clever that it deserves an answer. Very likely I would not." "Last night, when I said that to myself, I was extremely angry," Rowland rejoined. "Oh, dear, and you are not angry now?" "I am less angry." "How very stupid! But you can say something at least."

"And you are happy?" "Of course I'm happy. Why shouldn't a girl be happy? He's a good fellow and deserves it all, and I mean to be such a wife to him! Only he is to let me dance. But you don't care for dancing?" "I have never tried it much." "No; your people think it wicked. I am so glad mine don't. But, Linda, you'll be let come to my marriage will you not? I do so want you to come.