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"Wopper," repeated the Professor, "you are not the first who has expressed disbelief in what he cannot see, and you will assuredly not be the last; but if you will wait I will convince you." "Very good," replied the Captain, "I'm open to conviction." "Which means," said Lewis, "that you have nailed your colours to the mast, and mean to die rather than give in."
The kindest notices I have had, or at all events those that have given me most pleasure, have been educed by this Society A. Sidgwick's paper, that of Professor Corson, Miss Lewis' article in this month's 'Macmillan' and I feel grateful for it all, for my part, and none the less for a little amusement at the wonder of some of my friends that I do not jump up and denounce the practices which must annoy me so much.
Then silence fell upon them a long silence, and at the end Lewis said: "Nat, do you remember at Nadir the guavas when, you'd come out to where I was with the goats?" Natalie nodded, a starry look in her far-away eyes. "Nat," said Lew, "tell me about it about Nadir about about everything. About how you went back to Consolation Cottage." Natalie flashed a look at him.
"The name somehow sounds too young and inexperienced," observed Salemina, "and what association have I with the phrase 'sister's husband's niece'?" "You have heard me quote Lewis Carroll's verse, perhaps: 'He thought he saw a buffalo Upon the chimney-piece; He looked again and found it was His sister's husband's niece: "Unless you leave the house," he said, "I'll send for the police!"
And surely when you are back there and you pass once more a 'meeting' at the curb, you will not snicker. You will tarry awhile and take off your hat." We have received a letter from Mr. Lewis Strauss, Secretary to Mr. Herbert Hoover, who has just returned from France, and he says that Mr.
His father was a dreamer, a wanderer, one who loved the world and its frivolities, and the son takes that temperament, softened by his mother. He ought to have a guardian." "He has one," replied my father. "A guardian!" repeated Lewis. "What court has appointed a guardian for young Marshall?" "A court," replied my father, "that does not sit under the authority of Virginia.
Sending back word to Captain Clark of the discovery of the falls, Lewis had ascended the course of the cascades to a high hill when he suddenly encountered a herd of a thousand buffalo. It was near supper-time. Quick as thought, Lewis fired.
He hath made me much better acquainted with the times of Lewis XIV., than the innumerable volumes which I had read could do; and hath suggested this reflection to me, which I have never made before His vanity, not his knowledge, made him encourage all, and introduce many arts and sciences in his country.
"Well, anyway we sent for it back in double-quick time; but Lewis had taken the huff and didn't want us to have it. So Hart had to apologize which he didn't enjoy and altogether the place was in a ferment." "But it's all right now?" "Yes, thank Heaven. I say, Toni; I went to see old Vincent about my arm to-day, and he says it is fairly normal again. I'll tell you a secret, shall I, Toni?
In enumerating the people Lewis and Clarke often state the number of inhabitants with the number of houses, thus: "The Killamucks, who number fifty houses and a thousand souls." "The Chilts, who ... are estimated at seven hundred souls and thirty-eight houses." "The Clamoitomish, of twelve houses and two hundred and sixty souls." "The Potoashees, of ten houses and two hundred souls."
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