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The parson sighed and pressed the matter no further. He desired, he said, to see Dick's grave. Then he hoped to return to England. Now Dick had made his plans. In a new country, where five years bring amazing changes, it is easy to play pranks, even in churchyards.
The King wished to leave his crown to his cousin William, Duke of Normandy; and Harold, trusting to the general hatred of the Norman race, hoped to secure it for himself, much in the same way as Hugh Capet had lately dethroned the line of Charles le Magne in France.
"I wanted to adopt Dickie once, Lord Arden, but he would not stay." "I had to get back to father," said Dickie. "Well, at any rate it's pleasant to see each other again," she said. "I always hoped we should some day. No sugar, thank you, Elfrida" and then sat down and had tea and was as jolly as possible.
I had given up expecting a miraculous cure in a moment, and now only hoped for a gradual change for the better. The opportunity I was waiting for came one winter's afternoon when she was playing with the baby.
"You and I again are of one blood and so near in age that, albeit one may counsel the other, it is scarce to be hoped that I should take your judgment, or you mine, without cavil. "Then Cousin Maud!
Picnics, musicals, evening parties approved by the school faculty even little feasts after curfew were hatched within the membership. Nettie Parsons, the daughter of the "sugar king," was destined never to be very popular in the school. Those girls who hoped to benefit by Nettie's wealth soon found that money meant as little to Nettie as to any girl at Briarwood.
And he hoped, with an admixture of anxiety such as he had never known before, that the painter's demeanor would be such as should allow him to show mercy.
My purpose then was to cross the torrent at a narrow part where a tree hung over it, and to make to the northward, where I hoped to join Uncle Jeff and Clarice at Winnemak's camp. The Indians, however, had no intention of allowing me to escape. On they came, uttering loud shrieks and shouts, expecting to strike terror into my heart, and make me yield.
It is to be hoped that this policy will never be adopted by any National Administration, as it is fraught with nothing but mischief to the Indian tribes.
Worthington’s words impressed her with the force of their prophetic meaning. Mrs. Dawson politely hoped that Hosmer would not leave before Jack came home; it would distress Jack beyond everything to return and find that he had missed an old friend whom he thought so much of. Hosmer could not say precisely when they would leave.
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