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From General Loring, are you not? You low-countrymen are gathering all our mountain laurels! Gauley River and Greenbriar and to-day, news of the Allegheny engagement " "You seem to be bent," said Stafford, "on drawing us from the Monterey line before we can gather any more! We will be here next week." "You do not like the idea?" The other shrugged. "I? Why should I care?
The Greeks saw with joy that their signals were answered, and a boat approached, so that they could hear a man's voice crying to them, "What are you who dwell on the island of the profane, and gather fruits sacred to Apollo?" "If I may be said to dwell here," replied the old man, "it is contrary to my own will. I am a Greek of Thessaly.
I get it from a human tract in me that circumstances have obliged me to put a hoarding round." "I begin to gather daylight." "Quite so. My patients are invited to exchange views with their guardians in a spirit of perfect friendliness; to solve little problems of practical moment; to acquire the pride of self-reliance.
Most everything else has gone. There used to be lovely currants and raspberries over there, and there were a few blackberries." "We know where there are some blackberries still, don't we, Alice?" said Marjorie. "Yes, they have ripened late; they're not so very big, but we are going to get them. We're going to take our lunch with us and gather all we can find."
I did gather, however, that she had a niece of sixteen in the inner room, who spoke French, and that she would go and fetch her. The niece appeared at this moment and was dragged forward; all she would say, however, was "Tiens, tiens!" to whatever we asked her, so we came to the conclusion that was the limit to her knowledge of French, very non-committal and not frightfully encouraging.
But all our means will be applied to military uses, and our operations will be necessarily much less expensive than yours. In other matters, we will forget our habits of extravagance. We will become, by the law of necessity, economists in place of spendthrifts. We will gather in rich harvests, but will stint ourselves to the bare necessities of life, that our troops may be fed and clothed.
Look now! Out yonder see the flaming gases gather and cohere. They burn out and the great globe blackens. Cool mists wrap it, rains fall, seas collect, continents arise. There is life, behold it, various and infinite. And hearken to the whisper of this great universe, one tiny note in that song of praise you heard but now.
He discovered more than one old comrade, more than one dear friend among the names written there. The young man had spoken the truth. But what was the use of it all. The claims of duty only became the more urgent. "Sir," said the General coldly, folding up the letters again and placing them on the table, "I gather from your manner and bearing that you were brought up as a soldier."
She flung aside her muffling cloak, but her black hood still hung far over her face, and every now and then hand or handkerchief was lifted as if to clear her eyes from the tears that would not cease to gather and blind her; and she merely spoke when some direction to an assistant, some sympathetic word to the patient, was needed.
Ashe laughed, and, turning on the steps, he pointed to the splendid gardens and finely wooded park. "Or government by country-houses which? If you support us in this as I gather you will this walk will have been worth a debate now won't it?" The flattered journalist smiled, and they entered the house. From the inner hall Lord Grosville perceived them.
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