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Willoughby gave him a look that was coldly courteous, and then he looked at Lady Busshe. She nodded imperceptibly. Her eyebrows rose, and Willoughby returned a similar nod. Translated, the signs ran thus: " Pestered by the Rev. gentleman: I see you are. Is the story I have heard correct? Possibly it may err in a few details." This was fettering himself in loose manacles.
But it is not to be; he sees himself cut short of the career where he planned to be famous; he gives way, however, to neither anger nor repining. Oh, my love! that I could win you to believe that if you clasp this cross to your heart, as the gift of Him who cannot err, you will never feel it a burden!" Bessie smiled.
Crossjay replied, with an old man's voice, and a ghastly twitch for a smile overwhelmed the compassionate ladies. Miss Dale took possession of him. "You err in the other direction," she remarked to Vernon. "But a little bracing roughness is better than spoiling him." said Miss Middleton. She did not receive an answer, and she thought: "Whatever Willoughby does is right, to this lady!"
The rules of life which she wrote for herself at eighteen are worth copying: "First, Never lose any time; I do not think that lost which is spent in amusement or recreation some time every day; but always be in the habit of being employed. Second, Never err the least in truth. Third, Never say an ill thing of a person when I can say a good thing of him; not only speak charitably, but feel so.
The next man they meet, If wise or fool, debauched or deluder, Or what you will, the dangerous intruder May write thereon, to cause that man to err In doctrine or in life, with blot and blur. Nor will that soul conceal from who observes, But show how foul it is, wherein it swerves. A reading man may know who was the writer, And, by the hellish nonsense, the inditer.
They might be mistaken. They might err in writing at all, when their affections were so great that they could not write otherwise than they did of life. As to mistakes, stand now as authors as well as women before the judgment-seat of God. "Jan. 11th, 1848. "We have not been very comfortable here at home lately.
We ought to feel in fact towards pleasure as did the old counsellors towards Helen, and in all cases pronounce a similar sentence; for so by sending it away from us, we shall err the less. Well, to speak very briefly, these are the precautions by adopting which we shall be best able to attain the mean.
Where men err against this method, it is usually on purpose, and to shew their learning, their oratory, their politeness, or their knowledge of the world. In short, that simplicity without which no human performance can arrive to any great perfection, is nowhere more eminently useful than in this.
How extensive the Babylonian mythology was must remain for the present a matter of conjecture, but it is easier to err on the side of underestimation than on the side of exaggeration.
Calling to Harry to watch the corridor without, I quickly tore my woolen jacket into strips my fingers seemed to be made of steel and bound the wrists and ankles of the Inca firmly, trussing him up behind. Then with another strip I gagged him, thinking it best to err on the side of prudence.
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