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"An' no thanks to you for that, Fardorougha," said the Bodagh. "No, no; I'll never buy a pig in a poke. If you won't act generously by your son, go home, in the name of goodness, and let us hear no more about it." "Why, why?" asked the miser, "are yees mad to miss what I can leave him? If you knew how much it is, you'd snap ; but God help me! what am I sayin'? I'm poorer than anybody thinks.
"Then I rummaged over the box with my father's letters, and found interesting notes from myself. One I should say my first letter, which little Austin I should say would rejoice to see, and shall see with a drawing of a cottage and a spirited 'cob. What was more to the purpose, I found with it a paste-cutter which Mary begged humbly for Christine, and I generously gave this morning.
The kibitka was provisioned for at least twenty persons, and Nicholas generously placed his supplies at the disposal of his two guests, whom he believed to be brother and sister. After a day's rest, Nadia recovered some strength. Nicholas took the best possible care of her. The journey was being made under tolerable circumstances, slowly certainly, but surely.
Again I say, who can have taken the money?" "It is an utter impossibility that Yorke could have taken it, even were he capable of such a thing," generously spoke Arthur. "From the time you left the office yourself, sir, until after the letters were taken out of it to be posted, he was away from it." "Just like him!" exclaimed Mr. Galloway.
He also made use of the occasion to urge the necessity of providing more generously for the army expenses and other general disbursements. As to ambitious views, he was a stranger to them, and his language at this moment was as patriotic and self-denying as at any previous period.
He ordered me to reward the sailors who had exerted themselves in this occasion even more generously than usual, saying, "It might have been a sailor, and these brave fellows have shown as much activity and courage as if it had." After the lapse of thirty years all these things are as fresh in my recollection as if they were passing at the present moment.
Something in Roger Adams a quality which was neither brute strength nor imperious personality exerted a power which Kemper generously admitted to be greater even than these. Nothing in the man was conspicuous he exercised no dominant magnetism but the invisible spirit which controlled his life, controlled also, in a measure, the thoughts of those who came directly beneath his influence.
But he did not know how to begin conversation, and the more he cudgelled his brains to find a way of opening the attack, the more he found himself at sea. Once more Reine came to his assistance. "Well, Monsieur de Buxieres," said she, "do matters go more to your liking now? You have acted most generously toward Claudet, and he ought to be pleased." "Has he spoken to you, then?"
Rise early, live generously, and make cheerful acquaintances and I have no doubt you will send these misgivings of the heart all to the Devil. You will doubtless do well henceforth in literature and add to your comforts as well as your reputation which it gives me great pleasure to tell you is everywhere rising in popular esteem."
They may make strong and useful garments for the poor; they may teach in Sunday-school and attend prayer-meeting; they may finance the new parsonage, and augment the missionary funds by bazaars, birthday socials, autograph quilts and fowl suppers where the masculine portion of the congregation are given a dollar meal for fifty cents, which they take gladly and generously declare they do not mind the expense for "it is all for a good cause."
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