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"Oh!" Miss Bey ejaculated, with peculiar meaning. "Then you will have a great deal to learn." "I suppose so," Beth rejoined. "But that's what I came for, you know to learn. It's high time I began!" She fixed her big eyes on the blank wall opposite, and there was a sorrowful expression in them.
This fact we learn from an intimate friend of Madame de Vasse. There is exaggeration here. The Prince was not living a life 'fugitive and cloistered' for three whole unbroken years. But the convent of St. Joseph was one of his hiding-places from 1749 to 1752.
During dinner I was waited upon by a strange old fellow who spoke Welsh and English with equal fluency. "What countryman are you?" said I. "An Englishman," he replied. "From what part of England?" "From Herefordshire." "Have you been long here?" "Oh yes! upwards of twenty years." "How came you to learn Welsh?" "Oh, I took to it and soon picked it up." "Can you read it?" said I. "No, I can't."
The books, however, that were his constantly recurring sources of attraction were Tooke's Pantheon, Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, which he appeared to learn, and Spence's Polymetis.
It was like a dash of cold water on the warm little heart, and, starting back, she glanced at him from the corners of her pretty black eyes and answered: "I cannot call him father." "You will learn to, my dear," Price answered with a smile. "Come, Robert, come and greet your new father," said the mother.
Oliveta's lips writhed into a tortured smile. "Never fear, I shall place the loop about his neck where my arms have lain. He has told me little, for I feared to listen. But wait! Give me time." Vittoria cried in a shocked voice: "Child! Not that," "It was from him I learned of Gian Narcone and his other friends; now I shall learn from his own mouth the whole truth.
I went before the mast." "But you would not learn to unravel wool before the mast. I suppose your mother taught you when you were small if you ever were small." "I never had a mother that I can remember I learned to do all those things at sea." "Forgive me," she said, guessing she had struck some tender chord in my existence. "What an odd life you must have had." "Perhaps.
Prince Albert. An' den he'd say to me, 'Well, always carry yo'se'f lak he did. To dis good day I holds myse'f lak Marster said. "On certain days o' de week one o' de old men on de place took us house servants to de fiel' to learn us to work.
They begin very young at this work, but it is very light; they are never overworked, and so it does them no harm usually, but good. The daughters of better-class people, such as merchants, and clerks, and advocates, do not, of course, work at field labour. They usually learn to read and write at home, and they weave, and many will draw water.
But between Saint Venus and Vieuxbois you may soon learn enough to make you a sadder man, if not a wiser one. 'Why not a wiser one? Sadder than now I cannot be; or less wise, God knows. The colonel looked at Lancelot with one of those kindly thoughtful smiles, which came over him whenever his better child's heart could bubble up through the thick crust of worldliness.
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