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"Well, Uncle Daniel," said Robert, turning the conversation toward him, "you and Uncle Ben wouldn't go with us, but you came out all right at last." "Yes, indeed," said Aunt Linda, "Ben got inter a stream of luck. Arter freedom com'd, de people had a heap of fath in Ben; an' wen dey wanted some one to go ter Congress dey jist voted for Ben ter go. An' he went, too.
Suddenly she turned quickly on her side, and extended her arms, and her voice sounded strangely clear and distinct. 'Where is you, fath'? Quick, quick, come an' hol' me. It is dark.... Hol' me tight... clos' up, clos' up, fath', my fath'... it is so dark so dark. The natives told Wallis next morning that 'Ranisome' had gone quite mad. 'How know ye he is mad? 'Tah!
There's only seven beds in all this here housen; and, besides the family, there be no less than sex-and-thirty miners a quartering here; they takes sex out o' the seven beds, and mistus and I and all the childer do fill the t'othern all night, and when us do turn out, then maister and his comarade do turn in and 'tis the same all through town an' by ma fath an' troth, I zem there b'aint, at this very moment, a bed without a pair in 'un for miles round."
And say you try to make a jump at me " "I won't!" Sam declined this role impatiently. "I guess it ain't YOUR father's revolaver, is it?" "Well, it may be your father's but it ain't yours," Penrod argued, becoming logical. "It ain't either'r of us revolaver, so I got as much right " "You haven't either. It's my fath " "WATCH, can't you just a minute!" Penrod urged vehemently.
It isn't for me to blame I thank you for telling me. Somehow I must manage to make things straight, without injuring fath without injuring the name." His voice broke a little. John Doran had died under an operation when Max was ten, but he had adored his father, and still adored his memory.
They drew apart, and Lita knelt beside the bed. 'An' did he pray for fath', an' me, an' you, an' Tom, an' my mother who runned away? Tell me all 'bout it, Lita. I did wan' him to come and tell me some things I wan' to know before I is dead. Tell me what he say. 'He say dat vers', "De grass with', de flow' fade, but de word of de Lor' God endure fo' ev." 'Was do it mean, Lita, dear?
"Fath Paul," said Betty, checking herself, "that brown parcel you gave me long ago with such earnest directions to keep it safe, and only to open it if you were killed, is " "That's the will, my dear." "And Edwin does he think that I am your real daughter Betty?"
Strange as it may at first sight appear, this word is merely another form of our word father, of the German vater, and of the French pere. Now vot is evidently the same root as the German vat in Vater, and the English fath in father. Quod erat demonstrandum.
The sea, ah, the sea! for me it is all, As it massively sweeps from the worlds apart; Its smile in the morn to my soul is a call, And when in the even my fath seems to pall, It breathes with its sadness an echo to my heart.
The time for a journey to Persia was so far favourable that the Shah, Fath' Ali, who had succeeded to the throne in 1794, owed England much gratitude for having interfered to check the progress of Russian conquest upon his northern frontier.
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