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"I have ordered them," said Gaydon, "at the post-house. I will fetch them;" and he hurried off upon his errand. Wogan turned to O'Toole. "And the bill?" "I have paid it." "There is no one awake in the house?" "No one but the landlady." "Good! Can you keep her engaged until we are ready?" "To be sure I can. She shall never give a thought to any man of you but myself."
The fate of his people is against it, and Pontiac and Philip have no more chance, than Julian in the times of old. Now that I am engaged on this subject, let me give some notices of writings upon it, read either at Mackinaw or since my return. Mrs.
Bruce has related that, when visiting Killingworth on one occasion, he found him engaged in teaching algebra to such of the pitmen’s boys as would become his pupils.
"I'll ask you to excuse the other hand; it's otherwise engaged just at present." He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining "bracelet" to the left one of his companion. The glad look in the girl's eyes slowly changed to a bewildered horror. The glow faded from her cheeks. Her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress.
Grace, strength and dignity still distinguish the fine person of this extraordinary man; who, though more than forty years before the world, engaged in scenes of strange and eventful conflict, does not yet appear to have reached his grand climactic.
The Colonization Society has been busily engaged all this while in conveying the slaves to Africa; in other words, abolishing slavery. In this very charitable occupation it has carried away of manumitted slaves 613 Balance against the society . . . . 549,387! But enough of its abolition tendency. What has it done for amelioration?
These sophisters substitute a fictitious cause, and feigned personages, in whose favor they suppose you engaged, whenever you defend the inheritable nature of the crown.
Batty admitted, 'he does catch me up at times. 'Yes, I know. About music. I know. He's queer. I hate it when he gets angry and shouts, but he's good really, in his heart. 'Oh, of course he is, Mrs. Batty murmured, and, looking at the plump hands on her silken lap, she added, 'I wish he'd marry. Now, John, he's engaged; but he didn't need to be. You know what I mean.
If a friend consulted him and said: "Look here, I'm engaged in an enterprise which will absorb all my energies for three years. It will enable me in the meantime to live and to keep my family, but I shall have scarcely a moment's freedom of mind. I may have a little leisure, but of what use is leisure without freedom of mind? As for pleasure, I shall simply forget what it is.
You asked me what I thought you had better do and I began by telling you there would be a great difference between that and what you'd rather do." "But, in heaven's name, why would you have me break off with Miss Wyndham, when every one knows I'm engaged to her; and when you know that I wish to marry her?"
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