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And when I warned her against Madame Strahlberg, saying that she might set her a very bad example, she answered: 'I may have had worse. I suppose that was not meant for impertinence either!" "I don't know," said Hubert Marien, biting his lips doubtfully, "but " He was silent a few moments, his head drooped on his breast, he was in some painful reverie. "Go on.
'As we have opportunity let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." "That is to the point," said Hubert. "But to return to the Pentecostal precedent," said Mr. Gray; "if we were to sell out, at whose feet would you propose laying the proceeds?" He looked slyly at Hubert. "At Doctor Schoolman's?" "Never," said Hubert, and then he laughed.
I have reason to believe that it was to him I owe my arrest in Burlington, Iowa. I now see the truth, that under the assumed name of Hubert Vander, Elliston ruined a young girl of Burlington, and, it may be, murdered her father, wealthy Captain Osborne.
Most of them had received gashes more or less severe, and Martinez the Gaucho and Cook lay dead at their feet. Charley and Hubert, upon emptying their revolvers, had fallen back and taken their carbines, and now stood with the reserve upon a flat rock a few paces in the rear, all burning with impatience to take part in the strife.
"I shall go home, then," said Rachel, "and see if there is any explanation there." "I shall ask the Major not to let Aunt Rachel come here," observed Hubert, as she departed; it was well it was not before. "Leoline," anxiously asked Alison, "can you tell me the Major's name?" "Colonel Keith Lieutenant-Colonel Keith," was all the answer. "I meant his Christian name, my dear."
Populous cities without one witness to the grace of God! Wide regions untraversed by the feet of His messengers! Hubert had thought New Laodicea a place of desperate need; and so it was in the matter of vital, fruit-bearing piety. But as he thought of the inky darkness in which China's millions dwelt this seemed a place of light. The meeting came to an end.
"And so you're my nephew Hubert," said a tall, middle-aged gentleman, who had come on board as soon as the Sabrina reached the port, and was now shaking Hubert warmly by the hand. "A hearty welcome to South Australia. Ah, I see; this is Mr Oldfield. My brother wrote to me about you. You're heartily welcome too, my young friend, for so I suppose I may call you.
You said that after the talk we had that afternoon you wrote for three hours without stopping, and that you had never done better work. 'Yes, I wrote a great deal; but on reading it over I found that I don't mean to say that none of it will stand; some still seems to me to be all right, but a great deal will require alteration. The conversation fell. At the end of a long silence Hubert said
Of course this was the reaction of great anxiety; but however meekly Hubert submitted to the queer outpouring of affection, and however thankful they both were, and glad and content over the particulars of the youth's work and progress, still he was not to be withheld from laying hand and heart at Vera Prescott's feet, as he insisted was due to her and her family after the compromising situation in which he had placed her.
Just the very person, but one, in the world that I wanted most to see." "Indeed! And, pray, whom have I the honor of addressing?" inquired Sir Norman, deeply edified by the cool familiarity of the accoster. "They call me Hubert for want of a better name, I suppose," said the lad, easily.
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