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Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. 'So they are, said the undertaker. 'They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that, said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously. 'No more they have, acquiesced the undertaker.

'My dear Twemlow, says Veneering, grasping both his hands, as the dearest and oldest of my friends Are you of opinion that your cousin, Lord Snigsworth, would give his name as a Member of my Committee? I don't go so far as to ask for his lordship; I only ask for his name. Do you think he would give me his name? In sudden low spirits, Twemlow replies, 'I don't think he would.

"This is great stuff!" exulted Jordan King early on Thursday morning as the big, shining car, standing before Burns's door, received its full complement of passengers. "Mother and I are tremendously honoured, aren't we, mother?" "Even though we had the audacity to invite ourselves and ask for this magnificent car?" Burns inquired, grasping Mrs.

Stephen made successive statements of assent. He sat grasping his hat between his knees, his eyes fixed upon an infant's sock which lay upon the floor immediately in front of him, looking at Mrs. Sand as seldom and as briefly as possible, as if his glance took rather an unfair advantage, which he would spare her. "Yes, yes," he said. "Yes, certainly," revolving his hat in his hands.

With startled eyes she watched him move away from her, and bit her lip. Fortunately, Aunt Isabel came along, and she had sufficient strength left to catch hold of the old lady's skirt. "Aunt!" she murmured. "What's the matter?" asked the old lady, frightened by the look on the girl's face. "Take me to my room!" she pleaded, grasping her aunt's arm in order to rise. "Are you sick, daughter?

Then he knelt where the tree dipped almost level with the flood, and grasping the line with one hand swept the net in and out amidst the broken-off branches, while the girl watching him fancied she could see a bright flash between the splashes. Presently he rose again shaking his head, with nothing in the net. "Give me a yard or two when I shout," he said.

He was placed in the lowest form because of his ignorance of Latin and Mathematics, and here every one was younger and weaker. During school hours there was comparative peace, and he sat with perplexed brow and inky fingers, or was sent down to the bottom for inattention. It was not inattention but rather a complete incapacity for grasping the system on which everything worked.

Where was the fascination which had enthralled alike the youthful Rosalie and the impassioned Therésa? Was this, indeed, the once gallant and long beloved St. James? "You have come," he exclaimed, eagerly grasping my hand and pressing it in his. "I bless you, my daughter, and may God forever bless you for listening to a father's prayer!"

In spite of the overwhelming majority of anti-slavery settlers in the state, Kansas was not admitted to the Union until after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. So unscrupulous, imperious, grasping was the slave power. Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. The slave power had reached the reckless point of madness and was rushing to its own destruction.

Cupidity is sin whether in a burglar or a Doctor of Divinity. A bitter, grasping, cruel, unsympathetic spirit is sin, no matter who shows it. The scribe and the Pharisee are too much with us, and the religious ideal needs to be rescued from their blighting grasp to-day as much as ever it did.