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It has come upon me as a sharp blow to be sure; and I have no longer any business here in the forest, all the more so by reason that I have children and grandchildren at home who have looked over-long for the old man's home-coming. I will set forth to-morrow early.
"Mighty smart fellows, you!" he resumed, waggishly cocking his eye towards the hunter, who had charge of the boat most in advance. "What bright and early chaps, living only from two to five miles off, to let one who has ten miles to come be in first at the rendezvous!" "Well, Codman, I suppose we must give in," responded the hunter.
Nash's first attack on Harvey took the form of a small volume, entitled, "Strange News of the Intercepting of Certain Letters," published very early in 1593.
At last Car Three rolled into the station at Deming. It was a warm, balmy Fall day. "Now burn the town up with your paper, boys," commanded Phil, after they had finished their breakfast. "Come in early tonight. I want all hands to drop paste pots and brushes tonight, and take dinner with me. It will not be at a contract hotel, either. Dinner at eight o'clock." "Hooray!" exclaimed Teddy.
The attention of the reader will now be directed to letters of Mr. Southey, briefly relating to Mr. Coleridge, and to circumstances connected with the publication of the "Early Recollections of S. T. Coleridge," 1837; with a reference to the distressing malady with which Mrs. Southey was afflicted. "Keswick, Feb. 26, 1836. My dear Cottle, ... I never go out but for regular exercise.
The attorney visibly hesitated, and it was Ripley Halstead who replied as gently as possible: "Often one believes that one can recall experiences of their very early years which they have actually learned from hearsay, from countless repetition in their presence." "But Dad never spoke of that time in Nevada; he never once referred to it to the very hour of his death!
Rapp appears to have been from his early youth fond of reading, and of a reflective turn of mind. He became dissatisfied especially with the lifeless condition of the churches; and in the year 1787, when he was thirty, he had evidently found others who held with him, for he began to preach to a small congregation of friends in his own house on Sundays.
Two children were born to them; the younger of whom, George Henry Borrow, was born on July 5th, 1803. The wandering instinct that George afterwards developed may well have been the natural outcome of the roving life of his early years. Before he was many months old, his parents, obedient to the dictates of military command, had moved from Dereham to Canterbury.
He was of low birth, but having evinced, even from his cradle, an uncommon seriousness of disposition, the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn, as they expressed it, 'might wag his pow in a pulpit yet. With an ambitious view to such a consummation, they pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learning.
But although my vanity early discovered that my presence at Osbaldistone Hall had given Diana some additional reason for disliking the cloister, I could by no means confide in an affection which seemed completely subordinate to the mysteries of her singular situation.
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