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"A gentleman fights for his country as he pleases, a plebeian as he must," the Governor would have explained with a touch of his old oratory. "He's a nice old chap himself, but, by George, the discipline fits like a straight-jacket," pursued Dan, as he finished his coffee.

I wonder if there is anybody here now whom that fits, who meets the preaching of the gospel with a shrug, and with this saying, 'He prophesies of the times that are far off. I fancy that there are a few; and I wish to say a word or two about this ground on which the widespread disregard of the divine message is based.

On another a valuable horse died, and then there were fits of sickness among the children, and poor crops in the field, and low prices in the market; in short, as Biah remarked, "The deacon's luck did seem to be a sort o' streaky, for do what you might there's always suthin' to put him back."

For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table, for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story. Nor would he allow any one to leave the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.

Martin but an old age of great poverty and terrible loneliness. You won't stand in my way, Maggie?" "I can't, mother; though it gives me agony to think of your marrying him." "But you'll get quite accustomed to it after a little; and he is really very funny, I can assure you; he puts me into fits of laughter.

Then at last she gave way, fell into tears, hysteric sobbings, convulsions so violent as for a time to take the appearance of epileptic fits, and was at last exhausted and, happily for herself, unconscious. After that she was ill for many weeks, so ill that at times both her father and her brother thought that she would die.

It is a spot whence lovers might easily step into eternity, were they so disposed, and the name fits delightfully into the wild and somber scene; but ask any good villager thereabout to relate the legend of the place and he will tell you this: About forty years ago a couple of young farmers went to the Leap which then had no name to pry out some blocks of the schistose rock for a foundation wall.

"Do you really think you have the right to name Mrs. Cruise's baby?" she inquired coolly. He managed a wry, deprecatory smile. "Everybody seems to like the name, Miss Clinton. The more I think of it myself, the better it sounds. I tried it out last night in all sorts of combinations. It fits nicely into almost any family tree even Nicklestick's. Just say it to yourself. Doraine Nicklestick.

"You declined all my proffers of aid in cutting that dress, and now see how it fits you! You never looked so beautifully in your life. There is not such another bathing-dress in Oldport, nor such a figure to wear it." And she put both her arms round that supple, stately waist, that might have belonged to a Greek goddess, or to some queen in the Nibelungen Lied.

But we were a week going a hundred miles, and we were beginning to get into that frame of mind where we were noticing one another's faults and getting not a bit backward in talking about them, when one night at dusk we got a glimpse of the place we were looking for. "Queza had called the place a town, and maybe that name fits it as well as another. It made me dizzy to look at it.