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"I should prefer a moor-cock or guinea-fowl," replied Pencroft, "still, if they are good to eat " "They are good to eat, and also their flesh is very delicate," replied Herbert. "Besides, if I don't mistake, it is easy to approach and kill them with a stick." The sailor and the lad, creeping among the grass, arrived at the foot of a tree, whose lower branches were covered with little birds.
"There's no doubt that some of the facts are discouraging," he said. Herbert looked at him keenly. "That is what struck me. Suppose you think the thing over and bring me down a fresh report a week from to-day. Stay a day or two, if you're not busy; I can get you some shooting, and we can talk over any points that seem to require it at leisure." Singleton sat silent a moment.
There remains the hope that that which human nature at its best has been capable of may be realized by human nature at large. In their great moments the great men have seen this. That last sentence is, indeed, a paraphrase from a remark at the end of Herbert Spencer's "Ethics."
'Gentlemen, said sir Thomas, 'had the walls been as strong as the towers, we should have been still sitting in yonder field. In the meantime the army commissioner, Thomas Herbert by name, was busy securing with the help of his men the papers and valuables, and making an inventory of such goods as he considered worth removing for sale in London.
"It need not be temptation. It would not be if your mind were full of your work it would only be refreshment. I don't want my boy to turn stern, and dry, and ungenial. That would not be like your Rector." "My Rector did not make such a bad start, and can trust himself better," said Herbert. "Come, Jenny, don't look at me in that way.
He exercises in it off and on all the week, at night, and sometimes in the middle of the day." Herbert rallied her for her gossip's credulity. "It's truth," she declared.
I call it quite improper almost unseemly to meddle in the affairs of such people. I daresay Herbert has had something or other to say to this horrid girl; young men will be young men, and in the army we know how to make allowances for that sort of thing: but that Ronald should positively think of bringing such a person into my breakfast-room is not to be heard of.
If I am so unfortunate as to lose my gold watch, I will buy another. The fact is, I have bought this silver watch and chain for you." "For me!" exclaimed Herbert, intensely delighted. "Yes; it will be convenient for you, as well as me, to be provided with a watch. Every traveler needs one. There; put it in your pocket, and see how it looks." "You are very kind to me, Mr.
"Perhaps so; but as I do not know it, you cannot be surprised that your determined withdrawal from our circle should wound both my feelings and those of my family." Herbert covered his eyes with his hand for a moment, and then turning them with a grave and even sad expression on Mr.
A Penitential Psalm as David would have written it if he had been reading Herbert Spencer. A Few Little Crows which I have to pick with various people. The Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity. The Battle of the Prigs and Blackguards. That Good may Come. The Marriage of Inconvenience. The Judicious Separation. Fooling Around. Higgledy-Piggledy.
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