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"I have dared even to exceed your instructions, Miss Effingham," said Paul, "for I have promised the Captain to endeavour to persuade you, and as many of the ladies as possible, to trust yourselves to my seamanship, and to submit to be rowed out to the spot where we shall find him and his friend the commodore riding at anchor." "An engagement that my influence shall be used to see fulfilled. Mrs.
And how has this long ago been fulfilled here in England! as also in Scotland, Holland, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, and other places!
When that period comes the readers who rank by millions will be the readers who give the widest reputations, who return the richest rewards, and who will therefore command the services of the best writers of their time. This prophecy has, curiously enough, been fulfilled in a different direction from that anticipated by him who uttered it.
Before I had been five minutes in his company, Romayne asked me if I had seen Winterfield since his visit to Ten Acres Lodge. I said I had seen him, and waited, anticipating the next question. Romayne fulfilled my expectations. He inquired if Winterfield had left London. There are other cases in which the dangerous system of telling the truth becomes equally judicious.
She looked beyond the trees of the Green Park to the far skies with wistful eyes, and asked herself deep questions concerning many things, born of the thoughts that arose in her mind when she stood amid a people mourning tenderly a dearly loved sovereign, and beheld how in hearts all over the world he had won love and admiration, in that, to the best of his endeavour, he had splendidly fulfilled his high trust.
I did not expect Pamela to show an ounce more feeling than the strictest canons of propriety demanded, and she fulfilled my expectations to the letter; but I had hoped, I confess, that Chillington would have displayed some little consciousness.
Well, she had fulfilled her promise. God grant, he thought passionately, that the awakening had been in a happier world. At six o'clock he went to Aleta's apartment. She had not yet arrived but presently she came. He saw that she had been crying. She could scarcely speak. "Frank, let us walk somewhere," she said. "I can't go upstairs; it's too full of memories. And I can't sit still.
To the Christian man the word comes, 'Thou shalt stand in thy lot. And the other word that was spoken about one sinner, will be fulfilled in all whose lives have been unfitting them for heaven: 'Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. He, too, stands in his lot. Now settle which lot is yours. 'I will give her ... the valley of Achor for a door of hope. HOSEA II. 15.
Alas! who can estimate the value of liberty? or form an idea of what I felt, when I understood that my fetters were indeed broken? My first master called me, and told me I was no longer his property. "I have fulfilled my promise," added he, "you shall again see your native country." I forgot in that moment all my resentment, and gave myself up to unbounded joy.
"This," answered the old woman, "is the third night, and these fires must blaze yet eleven nights and days more, during which time the axe is not seen in the hand of the forester, nor doth the bow twang in the woods of Tarapajan; neither may he which seeth these rites depart till they be fulfilled." Misnar was thunderstruck at this relation. And ere he could answer, the crowd gathered round him.
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