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The woman wondered a little if he would address her, and inquire after the health of her mistress.
Jesus says, as plain as words can put it, `Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. You tell me it is of no use to go to Him, and you don't go, and then you complain that He has forsaken you! Where is my friend Hetty?" "In hospital." "Indeed! I have been here several times lately to inquire, but have always found your door locked. Your husband "
Hence some of my friends among them were obliged to write to different persons at Bristol, to inquire if I was alive. I gave up a day or two, therefore, to this purpose. I informed the commitee of all my discoveries in the various branches to which my attention had been directed, and desired them in return to procure me various official documents for the port of London, which I then specified.
Dollier said mass; La Salle and his followers received the sacrament, as did also those of his late colleagues; and thus they parted, the Sulpitians and their party descending the Grand River towards Lake Erie, while La Salle, as they supposed, began his return to Montreal. What course he actually took, we shall soon inquire; and meanwhile, for a few moments, we will follow the priests.
Going to the rear of the store, the clerk soon returned, only to inquire: "May I ask you to repeat the name of the author?" "Taine, T-a-i-n-e," replied Mrs. Clemens. Then did the youthfulness of the salesman assert itself. Assuming an air of superior knowledge, and looking at the customer with an air of sympathy, he corrected Mrs. Clemens: "Pardon me, madam, but you have the name a trifle wrong.
'Oh mother, says I, 'if you can do so, you will engage me to you for ever. 'Well, says she, 'are you willing to be a some small annual expense, more than what we usually give to the people we contract with? 'Ay, says I, 'with all my heart, provided I may be concealed. 'As to that, says the governess, 'you shall be secure, for the nurse shall never so much as dare to inquire about you, and you shall once or twice a year go with me and see your child, and see how 'tis used, and be satisfied that it is in good hands, nobody knowing who you are.
Here is the General Delivery, and here is the department where letters addressed to the Furlong family are kept in stock. Pray inquire for yourself." The joke I confess was not a very brilliant one; but with a grave countenance I stepped up to the wicket and asked the young lady in attendance: "Anything for W. F. Furlong?"
Meanwhile, this general tone of irreverence for our forefathers is no hopeful sign. It is unwise to 'inquire why the former times were better than these'; to hang lazily and weakly over some eclectic dream of a past golden age; for to do so is to deny that God is working in this age, as well as in past ages; that His light is as near us now as it was to the worthies of old time.
In short, it is all a blank in my memory until I recollect myself first an ill-used and half-starved cabin-boy aboard a sloop, and then a schoolboy in Holland, under the protection of an old merchant, who had taken some fancy for me. 'And what account, said Mr. Pleydell, 'did your guardian give of your parentage? 'A very brief one, answered Bertram, 'and a charge to inquire no farther.
When in Walker's camp and finding he was friendly to Mormonism we could claim that we were also Mormons, but the good people though well known Catholics, did not so much as mention the fact nor inquire whether we favored that sect or not.
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