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Truly, if you do not lend me your helping hand, I am finally resolved to leave the country, and go fight for the sultan, or the devil, rather than be thus eternally teased.
She's a wonderful woman, always was. Has a passion for helping others live their lives she's never had time to live her own." "Bad business." Raymond shook his head. "Oh! I don't know, boy. The older I grow the more inclined I am to believe that it is only by helping others live that one lives himself." This was trite and did not get anywhere, so Mrs. Tweksbury plunged a trifle.
And when he learned that the delicious roast meat was a cut of the lynx that he and Toby had killed the night before, his natural prejudice against unaccustomed food did not prevent him from taking a second helping. Charley scarce had time to think of home.
The town clock struck the hour, nine o'clock. The boys made a move to separate. Tip took his cap and walked out alone in the cold, clear starlight. He felt quiet and strong. It was done at last: he had taken his stand before the boys had "shown his colours." They all knew now that he was trying hard, and who was helping him. Things must surely be different after this, for ever.
There are hundreds of young men and women who have been brought to the truth, and whose souls long to be free for Christ's service, but they need a helping hand in little things. "Let us pray that, from this mission, there may be many results such as the following letter shows.
"Didn't I hear the doctor say you must stop eating so much ice cream and candy, if you wanted to keep your marvelous complexion?" "No, you didn't," retorted Grace, "for the simple reason, that I haven't been to the doctor's for over two years." "That's right, I guess it was your mother," Mollie admitted, wickedly helping herself to a delicious morsel.
Trevor, and I rather enjoy helping her in the Sunday-school and at the mothers' meeting; not that I do much, for I am not like you, Ursula, but I like to pretend to be useful sometimes. 'I see what you mean, Lesbia: your life will be more natural and less strained than it is here. 'Yes, and time will hang less heavy on my hands. I do love gardening, Ursula.
Thorfinn got great fame for the aid he had given Grettir against such overwhelming power as he had to deal with: none of the men who had helped Grettir were ever after well loved of the Earl, save Bessi. So quoth Grettir "To our helping came The great of name; Thorfinn was there Born rule to bear; When all bolts fell Into locks, and hell Cried out for my life In the Tunsberg strife.
"You men are so hard," she said; "and Mrs. Belcher has the right feeling; but I'm sure she takes great comfort in helping the poor. What would you do, my dear, if you had no money to help the poor with?" "That's just what I've asked her a hundred times," said Mr. Belcher. "What would she do? That's something she never thinks of." Mrs. Belcher shook her head, in return, but made no reply.
At eleven o'clock eight thousand dollars were pledged, and then, at the suggestion of the presiding officer, they remained until one o'clock to perfect plans for a fair, from which they cleared sixty thousand dollars. After this, Mrs. Livermore spoke in hundreds of towns, helping to organize many of the more than twelve thousand five hundred aid societies formed during eighteen months.
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