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These most important calls out of the way, he was busy for over an hour giving long-distance instructions so that everything would be in readiness for the servicing of the immense space-cruiser the following Tuesday night.
Two such disasters, following so closely on the heels of each other, would have cooled the ardor of any man except Alexander, but nothing could daunt his invincible spirit, or make him relinquish an enterprise he had once undertaken.
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The Sunday following her marriage, Phillis experienced a surprise on which she reflected a long time without finding a satisfactory explanation. As she was dressing, Saniel entered her room. "What are you going to do to-day?" he asked. "That which I do every day." "You are not going to mass?"
He was as good as his word, and a week later, following some strenuous fights in the air, Tom and Jack received notice that they could report to the first United States air squadron, which was then being formed on that part of the front where the first of Pershing's men were brigaded with, the French and British armies.
When I lived in Paris, I had no regularity in my wanderings, no method in my sight-seeing, following a perhaps wayward fancy, and enjoying myself the better for it. One beautiful morning I sauntered out from my hotel, with a friend, who was also a stranger in Paris. "Where shall we go?" he asked. "To a little cemetery called Picpus, far away from here."
There are no less than 27 portraits of Rembrandt by himself. Sandrart relates the following anecdote of Christopher Schwarts, a famous German painter, which, if true, redounds more to his ingenuity than to his credit.
They had evidently come to eat the fruit growing behind the sand-hills, but being scared by my following them about, to try and shoot one, they took wing and went off again in the direction they had come from. Several days had now elapsed since the departure of the overseer with the horses, and as the time for their return drew nigh I became anxious and restless.
And once he had cut off part of the skirt of his Sunday coat, taking it in his blindness for an old one, to clean his palette with; and it was thought, by the boys, that it was the unseemly result of this rash act, as disclosed at church the following Sunday morning, which had led to the poor old man's dismissal.
We know that we must march when to-morrow comes, and tramp on our destiny onward. She smiled inwardly, whilst following the lad's narrative, to recognise in his simple tales about his mother, traits of family resemblance. Madam Esmond was very jealous? Yes, that Harry owned. She was fond of Colonel Washington? She liked him, but only as a friend, Harry declared.
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