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But anyway I've arranged it with the minister to see to them, and give them a place with their own, if I'm not here to look after them." "And you lived through it all!" repeated Horace in wonder. Her story gave him hope. He must put off thinking until grief had loosened its grip on his nerves, and the old self had come uppermost.
Stubby could fight Horace Gower, for instance, tooth and toenail, for an advantage in the salmon trade, and stretch his legs under Gower's dining table with no sense of incongruity, no matter what shifts the competitive struggle had taken or what weapons either had used. That was business; and a man left his business at the office. A curious thing, MacRae thought.
"Business, not politics," has been its principle of action; and partly, perhaps, for this very reason it may claim to have contributed more than any other single agency towards the prosperity of rural Ireland. To its work I now turn. The movement which the I.A.O.S. represents was started by Sir Horace Plunkett, and he has remained the most prominent figure in it ever since.
Travel may be "the conversion of money into mind," and happy the man who has turned much coin into that precious commodity, but it is a good thing, after being tossed about the world from the Battery to Africa, that dry nurse of lions, as Horace calls her, to anchor once more beside the old familiar tea-urn on the old familiar tea-table.
"I know it is the same with my husband," she added, giving him a look of wifely affection; "and I doubt not with my cousins Horace, Rose, Elsie with all here present who have had experience as soldiers and servants of Jesus Christ." "In that you are entirely right, Marcia," responded Mr. Dinsmore; "I can speak for myself, my wife, and daughter."
He made discourses in several sorts of verse, varied often in the same paper, retaining still in the title their original name of satire. Horace has thought him worthy to be copied, inserting many things of his into his own satires, as Virgil has done into his "AEneids."
He's seen us, and he's crossing the street." "Well, Patty," said Mr. Pearson, "what are you and Horace doing here?" "We've come shopping," explained Horace. "Patty's going to hunt bargains to send home. She wants to buy eight Christmas presents for three shillings. Isn't she plucky?" he added, with a meaning glance at his father. "You had better take her to Archer's stores," said Mr.
Horace Stowell, aged 93 years, and wife, who had journeyed from Madison, N. Y., a distance of over a thousand miles, to be present at the dedication ceremonies and to visit the Fair. Promptly at 11:30 William Berri, Vice-President of the Commission, called the assemblage to order and introduced Rev. Carroll N. Davis, who offered the invocation. At its conclusion Mr. Berri delivered his address.
In the animal creation there are some species that may be tamed, and others whose wildness is irreclaimable. Horace says, that all men are mad: and no doubt mankind in general has one of the features of madness. In the ordinary current of our existence we are to a considerable degree rational and tractable. But we are not altogether safe.
In the future no one will ask you any questions." "I should be sorry if it should turn out so, but was I to expose my own concerns?" "No, but there is a medium in all things." "Yes, the medium of Horace, but it is often a matter of great difficulty to hit it exactly." "A man ought to know how to obtain affection and esteem at the same time." "That is the very wish nearest to my heart."
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