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'They oughtn't to have called me Fleur, she mused, 'if they didn't mean me to have my hour, and be happy while it lasts. Nothing real stood in the way, like poverty, or disease sentiment only, a ghost from the unhappy past! Jon was right. They wouldn't let you live, these old people! They made mistakes, committed crimes, and wanted their children to go on paying!
"They all followed; and then followed also the shame of defeat, the awful massacre, the sorrow that lasts among us still, and the loss to Kentucky of many a gallant young life that had helped to shape her destiny in the nation. "Some day perhaps some historian will write it down that the Kentuckians followed McGary because no man among them could endure such a taunt. Do not believe him.
At the end of twenty years, if my roof lasts as long, my deposit will put on the best kind of a slate roof and leave three hundred dollars to go to the Society for the Promotion of Fine Art in General and Rural Architecture in Particular.
The climate of Baluchistán presents extraordinary varieties, and is extremely trying to Europeans. Although at Kelát the natives suffer considerably more from cold in winter than summer heats, the hot season in the low-lying valleys and on the coast, which lasts from April till October, may be almost said to be the most severe in the world.
If this fairy story lasts, it'll be your own, Mag a sort of commission you get on my take-off of you. But if anything happens to the world if it should go crazy, or get sane, and not love Nancy Olden any more, why, here'll be a place for me, too. Does it look that way? Divil a bit, you croaker! It looks it looks listen and I'll tell you how it looks.
And do not these gentlemen tell us" and she looked at the priest "that God is revenged, and that His vengeance lasts through all eternity?" The priest looked mildly at Lisbeth and said: "You, madame, are an atheist!" "But look what I have come to," said Valerie. "And where did you get this gangrene?" asked the old maid, unmoved from her peasant incredulity.
"Lord, how the young master do talk!" exclaimed Reuben, with an admiring grin. The boy was so rapid in his speech, had such vivacity and courage in his face, such a spring in every movement, as if he had quicksilver in his veins, Reuben thought; but it was only the quicksilver of youth, that Divine ichor which lasts for so brief a season.
"At least I hope Alda may not hear of it, or she will be in an agony of expectation as long as hope lasts. Gerald is gone, of course?" "Oh yes!" said Lance, who had had a farewell from him with the words, "Get it over while I am out of the way, and tell them I don't mind."
Those who have experienced what embarrassment is know that it is a feeling which grows in direct proportion to delay, while decision decreases in similar measure. In other words the longer the condition lasts, the more invincible does it become, and the smaller does the power of decision come to be.
"Rilla-my-Rilla, there were girls as sweet and pure as you in Belgium and Flanders. You even you know what their fate was. We must make it impossible for such things to happen again while the world lasts. You'll help me, won't you?" "I'll try, Walter," she said. "Oh, I will try." As she clung to him with her face pressed against his shoulder she knew that it had to be.
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