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It would be pleasant enough to float down the Kennebec on one of these rafts, letting the river conduct you onward at its own pace, leisurely displaying to you all the wild or ordered beauties along its banks, and perhaps running you aground in some peculiarly picturesque spot, for your longer enjoyment of it.
In the Christian life most of the mistakes that people make arise from their not letting the ark go far enough ahead of them before they gather up their belongings and follow it.
It being now very late, and the members very hungry, circumstances that have greater influence than can be imagined in debates, they were upon the point of letting this clause pass for want of due attention.
He determined to pursue a contrary method, and to try what could be done by letting them alone, and not appearing to make them, in the least degree, the objects of his notice. So successful was this plan, that after some preparatory intercourse, they came alongside the ship, without expressing any fear or distrust.
"It's nothing to do with oneself one's used, that's all. The child will be on its own legs, thrusting you away before you know where you are. It will want to claim its responsibilities ancestors and all " Peter said nothing Maradick went on: "You know we were talking one night and were interrupted you're in danger of letting the things you imagine beat the things you know.
I thought once," Doctor Rabbit continued, "of letting Yappy run me right to that thicket where the Fox family lives. But if I did, Brushtail or Mrs. Brushtail would surely be right there to lead Yappy away off into the woods. No, if Farmer Roe or his boy doesn't stumble onto their den, I'll have to think up some way myself to get rid of that Fox family.
"Oh, I am just sick of it all," replied Tavia helplessly. "I want to drop it. I see no good in keeping it up now." "Well, Tavia," said Nat not unkindly, but with more determination than it was usual for him to show, "I don't believe in letting money go as easily as all that, and if there is any possibility of us recovering it, it is 'up to us' to try.
Nothing could spoil it, not even when Sara scolded me for letting the preserves burn in the kettle because I forgot to stir them while I was planning out our life together. Sara said she really did not know what would happen to me some day if I was so careless and forgetful. But then, Sara does not understand. August Twentieth. It is all over.
Indeed, he was so fearful of letting slip some word or remark on the subject and thereby awakening suspicion and giving needless pain, that he abstained from all reference to the meeting of that evening, and launched out instead into wonderful and puzzling theological speculations, of which he was very fond. Meanwhile I was carried swiftly into the country.
I've seen the pleasure and comfort she took in his way from the first moment. He seemed to make her forget Do you suppose she has forgotten that miserable wretch Do you think " "If she hadn't, could she be letting him come to speak to you? I don't believe she ever really cared for Bittridge or not after he began flirting with Mrs. Uphill."
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