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The sill was not over four feet from the ground, and could be easily reached; indeed, in order not to expose themselves, they were compelled to stoop rather low when approaching the spot. Some sort of flower garden lay under the window.
I meant to get to work upon this whatever office I was given in the new government. I could have begun my plan from the Admiralty or the War Office quite as easily as from the Education Office.
"That's another matter, and more easily come at. I understand you now, Chippewa; you wish to know how many of us there are in the country we call America?" "Juss so," returned Pigeonswing, nodding in assent. "Dat juss it juss what Injin want to know." "Well, we do have a count of our own people, from time to time, and I suppose come about as near to the truth as men can come in such a matter.
I hallooed again to him, and made signs to come forward, which he easily understood, and came a little way; then stopped again, and then a little farther, and stopped again; and I could then perceive that he stood trembling, as if he had been taken prisoner, and had just been to be killed, as his two enemies were.
Sometimes they are met five hundred Leagues from Land. They live without drinking any fresh Water. They are a pleasant small Bird. They cannot dive, and are easily shotten. They can neither fly, nor go; but get into the Fish-wares, and cannot fly over the Rods, and so are taken.
Had she seen more of him at this time, she would not have so easily given up her suspicions; but she saw him only for a few minutes every day, and during that time he talked to her with all his former gaiety; besides, Lady Delacour had herself a daily part to perform, which occupied almost her whole attention.
A very good idea of the manners and customs of the people may be easily obtained by strolling, on Sundays and fete days, near Polanka, and visiting the eating-houses. I will introduce my reader to one of these places.
One evening the fourth or fifth of November it would be we were outside Port Arthur. At dusk the gunboat anchored, and a boat was despatched on some errand of reconnaissance. A point of the coast was less than a mile distant, and as I leant over the bulwark in the fore-part of the vessel, it struck me that I might easily swim off to it, if I could get into the water unobserved.
At the Boston Radical Club in 1868 he was asked to give an opinion on woman suffrage, and he replied that he had no doubt that when all women had agreed as to what they wanted, what was in fact best for them, they could easily obtain it through the home influence. These he would say are questions of judgment.
It was pleasant to dip the gray metal pail into the clean, colourless, cool water; pleasant to carry it back, with the water ripping at the edge, and a broken sunbeam quivering in the midst. But the extreme roughness of the walking confined us in common practice to the platform, and indeed to those parts of it that were most easily accessible along the line of rails.
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