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However, upon being summoned by his son he had to don his triumphal air once more, kiss his daughter on the forehead, shake hands with his son-in-law, jest and wish them both a pleasant journey. Then Eve, near whom Monseigneur Martha had remained, smiling, in her turn had to say farewell.
That's th' mystery, an' all there is to it, jest as I told you." "But about yourself?" asked Ruth. "You said you were put in chains, under arrest, as the ringleader of the mutiny." "So I was." "But what became of you?" "Well, I escaped, Miss. It may not be a very nice thing to confess, but I escaped. Th' British ship took us to a jail on some island I forget th' name of it.
Did ye never think, Sister Halsey, that Providence might take us up, intending to do great things with us, and jest have to set us down because we hadn't learned to have faith enough?" This spiritual significance of the episode of Newell Knight had not occurred to Susannah before. It touched her own case. He went on.
Now, he told us yesterday that that Winnebago, from whom he took that rifle, belonged to a party of those warriors, and it seems to me that if they are anywhere, it is between us and the camp, and we are likely to see more of them." "I'm of the same opinion with yersilf, but jest now there is somethin' else that gives me concern."
But can't you tell me anything about it? Or, don't you know?" Keith knew though he could not see her just how Susan was drawing herself up to her full height. "I guess I know all there is to know, Mis' McGuire," she said then coldly. "But there ain't anybody KNOWS anything. We're jest waitin' to see." Her voice had grown unsteady again. "You mean he MAY be blind, later?" "Yes." "Oh, the poor boy!
Nor are we the worse for our apathy. If we jest at a man's misfortune, we do not do it to his face. Why not out of the ill, which is misfortune, extract good, which is amusement? Three men in this room are made cheerful by a jest at a broken leg in the next. Is the broken leg the worse for it? No; but the three men are made merry by the jest. Is the jest wicked, then? Nay, it is benevolence.
I jest natcherally took to print like a duck to water, and inside of a month I was reading nigh everything that has ever been wrote. He had lots of books with him and every time a new sockdologer of a word come along and I learnt how to spell her and where she orter fit in to make sense it kind o' tickled me all over.
These words, though spoken half in jest, put the king into a violent passion, and he almost shrieked: "So the Persians say, that the wine has taken away my senses, do they? on the contrary, I'll show them that they've lost their own."
Nobody ever went to the devil yet by one big bound, like a tiger out of a jungle or a trout to the fly; it is an imperceptible passage down an easy slope, and the first step of all is sometimes taken when a young girl lends her ears to a smutty story or a questionable jest.
She had so timed her letter that Lady Macleod should have no opportunity of answering it. The answer was written there in the mingled anger and sorrow of those austere features. "Alice!" she said, as she took her niece in her arms and kissed her; "oh, Alice, what is this?" "Yes, aunt; it is very bad, I know," and poor Alice tried to make a jest of it.
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