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He had rambled up to this neighborhood in search of work, and hearing that Mr. Prying was in need of a hay hand, he waited his return from the Vermont State fair.
After a moment he said abruptly, "You fought through the war, I suppose?" "I fought till I was disabled, sir, but I tried to do a soldier's duty to the close of the war." "Duty!" ejaculated Mr. Houghton, with an accent of indescribable bitterness. "You would have killed my son if you had met him?" "Certainly, if I met him in fair fight and he did not kill me first."
Down's money, she says; ''tis mine, an' I want you to see to it. I said I would, but we'd made a plot to git some o' them soldiers' headstones that's provided by the government. 'Twas a shame it had been overlooked so long. 'No, says she; 'I'm goin' to pay for Eb's myself. An' I told her there wouldn't be no objection. Don't ary one o' you speak about it. 'Twouldn't be fair.
So Walter was ashamed; and he threw unworthy thoughts away; and with the last of the money he caused a fair screen to be made, and windows of rich glass; and the money was thus laid out. Now while the church was in building and they made all the haste they could Walter had days when he was very grievously troubled; but it seemed to him a different sort of trouble.
And more; it does this it makes us more inclined to trust God's justice. We say to ourselves, Men are, we find, really more just and fair than they seem to us at times; surely God must be more just and fair than he seems to us at times.
Wait a minute; we shall soon come to the Annia Faustina." Jeanne made no objection, but smiled softly upon the Cleopatra, the Umbrian 'as', and the fair huntress. Little by little her father's enthusiasm expanded over the vast collection of treasures. He took out his pocketbook and began to make notes.
"We give you the quarter you ask, and your lives will be safe till you are brought to a fair trial," answered Mr Tarwig, "but I will not promise you any other terms." The man consulted with his companions.
Jean, on the other hand, armed with her "lines," confided her position to the master-mason, her father, and his wife. Burns and his brother were then in a fair way to ruin themselves in their farm; the poet was an execrable match for any well-to-do country lass; and perhaps old Armour had an inkling of a previous attachment on his daughter's part.
"Certainly not," replied the Greek. "You chose to do pleasure to your friend Serapion in your own person when you kept me from going to fetch the peaches, and now I desire to offer this flower to the fair Irene with my own hand."
We will deposit the documents with trustworthy persons, so that no one may afterwards cast discredit on my honour, or utter a word against your fair fame." "You have been thoughtfully careful of my interests and happiness, Don Hernan," answered Hilda. "I feel that both are safe in your hands."
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