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But why rehearse this dead past this terrible night of suffering and gloom? Why not let its remembrance be effaced and forgotten in the glorious light of a happier day? I answer, Why?
So a colored boy stood in the upper hall, and a colored boy stood in the lower hall, and there were colored waiters everywhere, and Dolly had never been happier or prouder in her life: for Governor Markham and his wife, from Iowa, were there, and a judge's wife from Springfield all guests of Grace Atherton, and, in consequence, bidden to the party.
Weston, whose marriages taking them from Hartfield, had, indeed, made a melancholy change: but she was not going from Hartfield; she should be always there; she was introducing no change in their numbers or their comforts but for the better; and she was very sure that he would be a great deal the happier for having Mr. Knightley always at hand, when he were once got used to the idea.
Nothing would have made me happier than to have been able to accept it. But I am absolutely powerless." "You don't funk it?" Mr. Bullsom asked. "Not I. The fact is, there are circumstances connected with myself which make it inadvisable for me to seek any public position at present." Mr. Bullsom's first sensations of astonishment were augmented into stupefaction. He was scarcely capable of speech.
I often think that though Mercury was the pleasanter fellow, and probably the happier, Saturn was the greater god; rather cannibal or so, but one excuses it in him, as in some other heroes one knows of.
Never, since Christ and his apostles first showed men the way to be better and happier, have the nations stood in sorer need of a return to that teaching, in its pristine purity and simplicity, than now!
The reason was, that the longer we was in that solemn, peaceful desert, the more the hurry and fuss got kind of soothed down in us, and the more happier and contented and satisfied we got to feeling, and the more we got to liking the desert, and then loving it.
"Good Lord, boy," he rasped, "don't you suppose I'd have a nurse if I could afford it?" "Would you let me help? I'd like to do something. I'm a useless cub in a sick-room, but I could do that. Who's the woman he liked in the hospital?" "Nurse Elisabet. I don't know, Mac. There's no reason why I shouldn't let you help, I suppose. It hurts, of course, but if he would be happier "
"Do you!" said I. "Ah, Miss Clyde! `Love me, love my dog." "What nonsense, Mr Lorton!" she said, with a warm blush tinting her cheek. "But, I declare you haven't wished me the compliments of the season yet. How very ungallant you are! I will set you an example a merry Christmas, Mr Lorton!" "A thousand to you, Miss Clyde; and each happier than the last!" I said.
The magnificent pavilion, which he had constructed there in happier days, had been entirely refurnished, and it was proposed that the conference should take place in this kiosk.
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