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All the hum, the innocent games and delights of boyhood, and that sort of thing, you know come back to them and then they look back to those hours passed at school as the happiest, aye, the very happiest time of their life!" "Well," said Dick, "then I hope it won't be the happiest time in mine, that's all!
Nay, in this I will assert nothing, but will rather inquire: What hast thou gained by all this thy righteousness? Wast thou not innocent, perfectly innocent and righteous? And if thou shouldst be so now, what hast thou gained thereby?
"I can truly say that when I had read the letter I entirely forgave my father's suspicion that I had made some complaints to my aunt of his behaviour; for, though I was indeed innocent, there was surely colour enough to suspect the contrary.
He lay, as always, slightly on his right side, with his face a little towards me his face that was young again, and from which the bane had passed. It was one of the handsomest, fairest faces in the world, one of the most innocent, and one of the strongest; the face of a man who follows his instincts with the direct simplicity of a savage or a child, and whose instincts are sane and powerful.
In all France there is no more grisly place for the weak-stomached man than this training camp not even the front line trenches will kick up his gorge more sedulously. Yet at first sight the place looks innocent enough.
"What I can I will do, Blessington," rejoined the youth, as they both moved from the ramparts; "but the task is, in truth, one to which I find myself wholly unequal. How do I know that, even at this moment, my defenceless, terrified, and innocent sister may not be invoking the name and arm of her brother to save her from destruction." "Trust in Providence, Charles.
I am quite content, too, that you did not wish to write, and that you spoke slightingly of poor innocent letters because you really have more genius for talking. But I have in my heart one or two things more that I could not say to you, and will now endeavor to intimate with the pen. But why in this way?
Simply to gratify anger, from which, as Ion says, no one ever yet got any return, he threw whole districts of Italy into confusion, and sacrificed to his passion against his country numerous innocent cities.
'You need not anticipate any great harm from the blow, madam, he said, 'but your general health needs recuperating. Your mind acts on your body, and you must be kept free from excitement of any kind. "'Free from excitement, she thought bitterly, after all was hushed in silence, and she lay weak and faint, watching the slumbers of the innocent children beside her.
The other servants were tremblingly attending to their duties; but all smelled mischief in the air. Two such awful things did not often occur on the same day as the possible poisoning of Miss Frost and the terrible usage to which innocent James had been subjected. "We're none of us safe!" quoth the cook. "It's best to give notice." "But then wages is so high," said the kitchen-maid.
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