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But when the lady related what she had seen, the terror of poor Susan knew no bounds, and she declared her determination not to sleep alone in the house another night. While at breakfast, a visitor was announced, who proved to be the landlord, Mr. Hedge. The old gentleman entered with many apologies for his intrusion, and said
Louis stands, as well as the surrounding country, was claimed by the Illini confederacy, which had acquiesced in the intrusion of the whites. This circumstance, it is supposed, led the northern confederacy to the attempt, which they made in 1779, to destroy the village of St. Louis, then occupied by the Spaniards.
"My lord, I beg pardon for this intrusion: I know, at this time, you are much occupied; but it is absolutely necessary I should communicate I feel it to be my duty immediately and I cannot hesitate though I really do not know how to bring myself " There was something in the apparent embarrassment and distress of Mr.
I palpitated, and with a burst of grief she answered, "Oh, the poor gentleman has just departed!" I turned away as if from a helpless intrusion at a death-bed. At the services held in the house before the obsequies at the cemetery, I saw the poet for the last time, where "Dead he lay among his books," in the library behind his study.
If you think it well that states should be governed by tyrants, Spartans, before you establish tyranny for others, establish it among yourselves! You act unworthily with your allies. You, who so carefully guard against the intrusion of tyranny in Sparta had you known it as we have done, you would be better sensible of the calamities it entails: listen to some of its effects."
Adding at the same time "Depend upon it, that they are not more my enemies, than the enemies of your Majesty and the Empire, and an intrusion so unwarrantable, the officers and crew are bound to resist."
At any rate I am encouraged to thank Miss Fisher and Miss Garrow for their visits of repeated inquiry, and their other very kind attentions, by these written words, rather than by a message. For I am sure that wherever kindness can come thankfulness may, and that whatever intrusion my note can be guilty of, it is excusable by the fact of my being Miss Garrow's "Sincerely obliged,
"So, gentlemen," said he, "you have attained your end and have certainly chosen a particularly delicate moment for your intrusion. I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity." "Excuse me, Dr. Armstrong, I think we are a little at cross-purposes," said my friend, with dignity.
Gray should have seen, that it but ill befitted the Bird of Wisdom to complain to the Moon of an intrusion which the Moon could no more help than herself. p. 17. Johnson wrote of this book: 'I know little of it, for though it was sent me I never cut the leaves open.
But the daily refuse from the houses on both sides scales of fish mixed with ashes, vegetable peelings, rotten fruit, and dead rats never rouse her to question, "Why should these things be?" She accepts every stone of her paving. But from between their chinks sometimes a blade of grass peeps up. That baffles her. How can solid facts permit such intrusion?
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