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This question was much sooner asked than answered; and they both became so very inquisitive and earnest, that they soon drew the attention of Madame Duval and the rest of the party; to whom, in a very short time, they repeated all they had gathered from me. "Goodness, then," cried young Branghton, "if I was Miss, if I would not make free with his Lordship's coach, to take me to town."
The "yes" of the native apparently checked the embarrassment which the lady was beginning to feel, and triumphantly she exclaimed, "My goodness, what a country." Then the husband blew his nose with discomfort, and, her attention attracted, his good wife exclaimed, "My dear, you have a cold, let us go to bed," and they went.
He didn't blame you. He sent you word that he didn't." "Yes, but he did, all the same. He must have. I should if I'd been in his place. And now he's dead, and won't ever understand on this earth, anyhow. I guess I'd better clear out and leave you afore I spoil your life." "Aunt Keziah, you're my anchor to windward, as they say down here. If I lost you, goodness knows where I should drift.
Goodness knows what the Germans saw or thought they saw. No one was hit, nothing was interfered with. But it is a great mistake to think it all foolishness. The most methodical soldier in the world is behind those other sandbags, and he doesn't do things without reason.
"Good-night, and good-by, dear Miss Clinker," he said; "I am glad to have had this opportunity of thanking you again and again for your sweet goodness to me when I was ill; it was something which I shall never forget." "Oh, Mr. Derringham!" said Arabella, "you haven't parted from Mrs. Cricklander, have you?"
Our children may not grow into the genius, but they will grow into somewhat of the goodness of the illustrious and saintly John Henry Newman, if, in after years, they can write the first lines of their autobiographies in the words which open the biographical part of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua: I was brought up from a child to take great delight in reading the Bible.
How could a table, for example, be useful for holding a glass of water if the table were not well made, if powers appropriate to tables were not present and mutually cooperating? Unless equipped with intrinsic goodness, the table can exhibit no extrinsic goodness whatever.
For they have not served Thee in Thy kingdom, and in Thy great goodness." The latter of these reasons is contained in the 36 and 37 verses. "Behold, we are servants this day; and for the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers, to eat the fruit thereof, and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it." The close of all is, we are in great distress.
"James Bowdoin, if my son, with his d d snicker, were one half so good a gentleman as that old clerk, I'd trust him with with an earl's daughter," said the old gentleman inconsequently, and violently rubbing a tingling nose. "I think you're right, governor," said James Bowdoin. "Did you notice how spruced up and young the poor fellow was? I wish to goodness I hadn't laughed, though.
In later life Aurelius arrived at better canons of judgment; in his Meditations he praises Fronto's goodness, but says not a word about his eloquence. His contemporaries were less reserved. They extolled him to the skies, and made him their oracle of all wisdom.
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