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It was well for me that I came to this determination. I believe it was the appearance of maturity which my head and dining upon thoughts lent me, as much as my friend's praises, which created my success with the amiable Mr. Lambert R. Poor. I witness that my visit to him provided one of the most astonishing interviews of my life.
If my life will serve you, here I am! I have no bread, but here, here is my body. Take it, lay hands on me, tear me to pieces. Here I stand, here I stand. I will keep my oath." The carpenter bent his head, and said in a hollow tone: "Come, people, let God's will be done; we have sworn." The burgomaster quietly entered his friend's house.
It is the want of genius, as far as it goes, and apart from martyrdoms for conscience' sake, which produces misfortunes even to genius itself the want of as much wit and balance on the common side of things, as genius is supposed to confine to the uncommon. Manso has left a minute account of his friend's person and manners.
The other was comparatively fair, of small stature, and evidently of lively yet timid disposition. Need we say that they were Ramatoa, the sister of Laihova, and Ra-Ruth, the sister of Ravonino? "I fear they will never return to us," said Ra-Ruth, laying her hand on her friend's arm. "Say not so," replied Ramatoa, "we know not what blessings our God has in store for us.
Effie could not help smiling. She knew perfectly well that Dorothy thought it no harm to indulge in a tiny cigarette herself, not often, nor every day, but sometimes when she was dead beat, as she expressed it. Effie had to keep this knowledge of her friend's delinquencies to herself. If Dr.
My very dear friend's ever gratefully affectionate E.B.B. My dear Mr. Kenyon, Having missed my pleasure to-day by a coincidence worse for me than for you, I must, tired as I am to-night, tell you ready for to-morrow's return of the books what I have waited three whole days hoping to tell you by word of mouth.
"You cannot," he observes, "be certain that the names on a subscription list have been put down by sufficient authority; or, should that be ascertained, it still remains to be known whether they were not extorted by some over-zealous friend's importunity; whether the subscriber had not yielded his name merely from want of courage to say no! and with the intention of dropping the work as soon as possible."
Brock went home again, and waited anxiously to see what the day would bring forth. To his infinite relief his pupil appeared at the rectory late in the afternoon. Allan looked and spoke with a dogged determination which was quite new in his old friend's experience of him. Without waiting to be questioned, he told his story in his usual straightforward way.
I trembled like a leaf, and firmly pressing my friend's hand in mine, I fell on my knees and fervently and silently prayed to that God in whose all-mighty hand my destiny lay, that he would give me strength on this day, to do my duty as became an English sailor. Bangs knelt by my side. Suddenly my tears ceased to flow and I arose.
The announcement was made, across their marble-topped table, while the foam of the hot milk was in their cups and its plash still in the air, with the smile of Chad's easiest urbanity; and this expression of his face caused our friend's doubts to gather on the spot into a challenge of the lips. "See here" that was all; he only for the moment said again "See here."
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