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"Do you think you could get up a fit for the medical board," said Fitz., gravely. "Why, if absolutely indispensable," said I, "and with good instruction something this way. Eh, is it not?" "Nothing of the kind: you are quite wrong." "Is there not always a little laughing and crying," said I.
Schoolboys gravely debated the question as to whether or not the negro should exercise the franchise. The pessimist gave him up in despair; while the optimist, smilingly confident that everything would come out all right in the end, also turned aside and went his buoyant way to more pleasing themes.
"Oh, I have suffered a few times on horseback," he confessed; "but you ought to see my kid brother ride. He looks as if he were part of the horse. He's a handsome brat." "Except for calling him names, which is a purely masculine way of showing affection, you speak of him almost as if you were his mother," she observed. "Well, I am, almost," replied Sam, studying the matter gravely.
"But, Shenac," said Hamish gravely, "does our mother know? I am sure she will think you have enough to do at home, without going to spin at John Firinn's." "I should not go there, of course; they must let me bring the wool home. And there's no use in telling my mother till I see whether they'll agree. It would only vex her. And, Hamish, it's all nonsense about my having too much to do.
The severe look passed off directly though, and he smiled. "Dick," he said gravely, "all those years at a good school, to come back as full of ignorance and prejudice as the fen-men! Shame!" He walked away, leaving Dick with his companion Tom Tallington. "I say," said the latter, "you caught it." "Well, I can't help it," said Dick, who felt irritated and ashamed.
"It is partly his hair," she said gravely, "that makes him so distinguished in his appearance just that touch of silver; and you keep looking and looking until you scarcely know whether it's really beginning to turn a little gray or whether it's only a lighter colour at the temples. How insipid is a mere boy after such a man as Captain Selwyn! . . . I have dreamed of such a man several times."
I got on to it as soon as you did, I guess, but when a feller's worn the collar as long as I have and has to live, it ain't easy to cut loose you understand." "I understand," answered Austen, gravely. "I thought I'd let you know I didn't take any too much trouble with Meader last summer to get the old bird to accept a compromise." "That was good of you, Ham." "I knew what you was up to," said Mr.
But the force of his personality was a force against which she felt that she would struggle until the end. "I'm not sure about the curse," she answered, "but Gerty's heroes and mine are rarely the same, you know." "Then, I suppose, it's virtue that you are after," he remarked. She looked gravely up at him before she bowed her head in assent. "I like virtue," she responded quietly. "Don't you?"
I am ready!" "One moment," he said gravely. "Although this pass and an escort insure your probable safe conduct, this is 'war' and danger! You are still a spy! Are you ready to go?" "I am," she said proudly, tossing back a braid of her fallen hair. Yet a moment after she hesitated. Then she said, in a lower voice, "Are you ready to forgive?"
Betteredge stared hard at me, in dead silence. He closed the book with great deliberation; he locked it up again in the cupboard with extraordinary care; he wheeled round, and stared hard at me once more. Then he spoke. "Sir," he said gravely, "there are great allowances to be made for a man who has not read ROBINSON CRUSOE since he was a child. I wish you good morning."
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