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She helped him to rise, and he took a few steps with her aid. "Why, it feels really better," sighed he. He was so happy in feeling himself thus tenderly supported by Reine, that he altogether forgot his pain. "Let us walk slowly," continued she, "and do not be afraid to lean on me. All you have to think of is reaching the carriage." "How good you are," stammered he, "and how ashamed I am!"
"But if the Church is right, and all the world were good Catholics, wouldn't the human race come to an end, uncle?" "You have too much mind, Rose; you don't need so much to be happy." That remark brought a smile of satisfaction to the lips of the poor woman, and confirmed her in the good opinion she was beginning to acquire about herself.
I can say to him, 'Now, Dwight, be a good boy to-day, to please me. I shall be very happy to-night if Mary Anna comes home and says that you have been kind, and gentle and yielding all day. But then, on reflection, I thought that that motive would not be powerful enough.
William is greater in his retreats than Marlborough in his victories. On the other hand, the uniformity of Caesar's success does not dull his greatness. Greatness is not in the circumstances, but in the man. What does this greatness then consist in? Not in a nice balance of qualities, purposes, and powers. That will make a man happy, a successful man, a man always in his right depth.
His sensations were too full for utterance; nor was she, for some time, able to give him welcome. While she led him by the hand to a seat, the drops of sympathy rushed into either eye; and at length she broke silence, saying, "Count, we must acquiesce in the dispensations of Providence; and quiet the transports of our grief, with a full assurance that Monimia is happy."
No doubt you were the person whom they were anxious to see safe, and happy, and flourishing! XVII. Oh miserable man, not only in fact, but also in the circumstance of not perceiving yourself how miserable you are! But listen to the most serious charge of all. "In fact, what have you not sanctioned, what have you not done? what would be done if he were to come to life again, by? By whom?
Out in the open air, under the warm summons of the sun, there passed a merry, laughing group of negroes, happy, care-free, each humming the burden of some simple song, each slouching across the road, as though ease and the warm sun filled all his soul!
To so childlike a nature, the recent scene took the proportions of a catastrophe. He had meant to make every one happy, and he had aroused a terrible slumbering feeling of hate; everything had been turned topsy-turvy. He had at last seen mortal hate in the Presidente's eyes, tones, and gesture. On the morrow, Mme.
But I can't be sorry you're here, Babe, as I was at first. You're too sweet too like the child who used to be my one comfort." "I could almost die of happiness, when you say that!" Victoria answered, with tears in her voice. "What a baby you are! I'm sure you haven't much more than I have, to be happy about.
Adventurer, is the life to which I am condemned by a foolish endeavour to be happy by imitation; such is the happiness to which I pleased myself with approaching, and which I considered as the chief end of my cares and my labours.
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