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The Corso is a street a mile long; a street of shops, and palaces, and private houses, sometimes opening into a broad piazza.
Of course my brain had changed the very meaning of the Shaker story and translated it into different terms, but when I woke this morning, I could think of nothing but my husband and my boy.
As it cooled, still rapidly rotating, it flattened into a huge disc and gradually broke up into rings surrounding a central body an arrangement not unlike that which Saturn exhibits at the present day, though on a far larger scale.
Protected by their heavy coverings the weapons had suffered comparatively little damage, and Constans spent the best part of a week in cleaning them and getting the mechanism of their working parts into tolerable order.
One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the "Gazette" with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, "You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city."
Even more than Desire, he wondered that he had ever hesitated before an arrangement so eminently satisfying. If ever events had justified an impulse, his impulse, he felt, had been justified. He stole a glance at Desire as she sat in pleasant silence gazing into the sunset. She was happier already, and younger.
Ramsay followed the man upstairs, who showed him into a very splendidly-furnished apartment, and then went to summon his master, who, he said, was below in the warehouse.
To force the new "brethren" into entire dependence on those among whom they laboured their vow of Poverty was turned into a stern reality; the "Begging Friars" were to subsist solely on alms, they might possess neither money nor lands, the very houses in which they lived were to be held in trust for them by others.
Read all other books, philosophy, poetry, history, fiction; but if you would refine the judgment, fertilize the reason, wing the imagination, attain unto the finest womanhood or the sturdiest manhood, read this book, reverently and prayerfully, until its truths have dissolved like iron into the blood. Read, indeed, the hundred great books. If you have no time, make time and read.
"We will drive back with Sandy," said Aunt Sarah as they got into the wagon. "Can't Nellie come too?" asked Nan. "There is plenty of room." The matron said yes, and so the little party started off for a ride along the pretty road. "I was never in a carriage before in all my life," said Nellie suddenly. "Isn't it grand!" "Never!" exclaimed the other girls in surprise. "No," said Nellie.
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