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However, if I could suppress any manifestations of my emotions, I told myself, I ought to be satisfied. A few mornings after the recommencement of the dictation I was a little late in entering my study, and I found my secretary already at the table in the anteroom. In answer to my morning salutation she merely bowed, and sat ready for work. She did not even offer to read what she had last written.

This vote the City takes very evil: it's likely to go high betwixt them. Having passed the all-conclusive Ordinance for Presbytery, the two Houses had resolved to stand on their dignity, and resent the attempted dictation of the City, the Sion College conclave, the Assembly, and the Scottish Commissioners.

Make some stars, and go on like this: 'These are not Astronomy, but to convey the idea that I have forgotten where I was, and that we have to make it a rule never to re-read, for fear I should tear it up. I believe I was trying to find a new roundabout way of saying how much more to me you were than anything in Heaven or Earth." The dictation paused. "Go on," said the amanuensis.

If you adhere to it and follow its dictation, it will give you the white hair of old age on this earth, and bring you to the shadow-land when your turn comes." The next day, when the sun had come again, White Otter walked down the mountain, and at the foot met his father with ponies and buffalo meat. The old man had followed on his trail, but had gone no farther. "I am strong now, father.

He obtained, in short, no repose, until his secretary, who entered at his bidding half-dressed and with one eye half shut, had written the following note to my father, under his dictation, a letter evidently written in a paroxysm of high fever: "Friend of my heart, jessamine of my soul, bright party-coloured tulip of my souvenirs, may the Creator pour upon your gray and venerable head a stream from his flower-pot of blessings!

If Abraham had acquiesced and submitted, Ishmael and Isaac would have been a pair to bless his life, as they stood together over his grave. And if you and I will leave God to order all our ways, and not try to interfere with His purposes by our short-sighted dictation, 'all things will work together for good to us, because we love God, and lovingly accept His will and His law.

She knew something of what he felt, and she knew what blind obedience had done for her. With a half-smothered sigh, she reached over Oliver's head, dipped a quill pen in her inkstand, and at Oliver's dictation, wrote Margaret's address. "I will invite her at once," she said. Long after Oliver had gone Miss Clendenning sat looking into the fire.

Arranging a blotting-book on her knees, and looking a model of cheerful submission, she placed herself once more in front of her master's chair. "Shall I write from your dictation, sir?" she inquired. "Or shall I make a little sketch, and will you correct it afterward? I will make a little sketch. Let me see the letter.

"Would you mind waiting in Miss Faithful's office until I'm at liberty?" Beatrice was forced to consent graciously and pass into the other room, where Mary was giving dictation. When Mary finished she offered Beatrice a magazine but the Gorgeous Girl declined it and began in petulant fashion: "I've been thinking about you, Miss Faithful, and I do envy you. Do you know why?

It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage. Of course my statement must be taken cum grano, since I am writing from the dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short.