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The master was taking great pride in her, and gave her the few advantages within his reach. Detroit was being slowly remodeled, but it was discouraging work, since the French settlers were satisfied with their own ways, and looked with suspicion on improvements even in many simple devices for farming. With the fur season the town was in wild confusion and holiday jollity prevailed.
Up this bend we toiled against wind and tide, creeping closely along the wall on the right side, which, as we looked upward, seemed to be leaning over, while the waves beating against the bergs and rocks made a discouraging kind of music.
In other words, I was teaching people to worship God, who is a Spirit, not for love of Him who gave His Son to die for them, but in the fervour and enthusiasm of human nature. My superstructure was built on sand; and hence the continual disappointment, and that last discouraging overthrow.
Only those who felt absolutely obliged to be out were to be seen in the streets; but among these were our two little fiddlers. Whatever might be the weather, they were compelled to expose themselves to its severity. However the boys might suffer, they must bring home the usual amount. But at eleven o'clock the prospects seemed rather discouraging.
Of course they are fated to be overwhelmed by oblivion at last, poor fellows; but to see it weltering all round them while they are in the very act of achieving immortality must be tremendously discouraging.
Lydia hardly knew how to take this observation. In one sense it was flattering, in another discouraging.
It is somewhat discouraging to an aspirant after literary immortality, to reflect that in spite of the enormous amount of learned writing which the Deistical controversy elicited, many educated people who have not made the subject a special study, probably derive their knowledge of the Deists mainly from two unpretentious volumes Leland's 'View of the Deistical Writers.
The rebuke about the collection had gone home to a place raw with similar reproaches. "I hope you haven't been discouraging him?" Captain Filbert looked at her superior officer with astonishment. "I have entreated him to come to the meetings. But he never attends a Believers' Rally. Why should he?" "What's his state of mind? He came to see you, didn't he, the other night?" "Yes, he did.
"'I believe in love, absolutely. That is my strongest point. As soon as I find a champion, I am going to concentrate all my energy and all my talent on falling dead in love with him. "'Have you found any eligibles yet? "'Yes, Harvey Grath, and Robert Ingersoll, and Cal Keith, and Doctor Meredith. "'Where do I come in? "'Oh, we know each other too well, I said with discouraging promptness.
It was very humiliating. I gritted my teeth and swore that I at any rate should go again in spite of their incredulous jeers. But it was all terribly discouraging and made me most despondent. And that finished that trip to Switzerland. A few days later Simmons and Brumley disappeared. There was no commotion. One day they were with us and the next they were not.
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