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He had never quite liked Lord Brentford, and could not bring himself to do so now in spite of the kindness which the Earl was showing him. But he was very happy when he sat down to write to his father from the club.
Watts McHurdie filled Freedom's Banner with incendiary verse, always giving the name of the tune at the beginning of each contribution, by which it might be sung, and the way he clanked Slavery's chains and made love to Freedom was highly disconcerting; but the town liked it. In April Philemon R. Ward came back to Sycamore Ridge, and there was a great gathering to hear his speech.
She had stayed very much where he had left her: she liked the same things; and it did not seem possible for her to admit that any one could do better or differently: she set the Jean-Christophe of the old days against the new Jean-Christophe, and preferred the former. Of those about her no one had changed in mind save Christophe.
When he got away and looked back, all the boys had their clothes off and were dancing round the fire like Indians, and he would have liked to turn back after he got to the top, and maybe he might have done so if he had not found Jim Leonard hiding in a hole up there and peeping over at the boys.
Had he never owned his affection to yourself?" "Oh, no; but if mama had not objected to it, I dare say he would have liked it of all things. He had not seen me then above twice, for it was before I left school. However, I am much happier as I am. Mr. Palmer is the kind of man I like."
He shall marry into a troubled house of man & wife, which in religion and Christian discretion is not liked." "Thirdly. A few days later, on the 25th of July, Bacon wrote to an even greater man than Buckingham, namely, to the King himself.
And Amadis de Jocelyn himself? had he no regret? no pity? If the truth must be told, he was more relieved than pained, more flattered than sorry! The girl had died for him, well! that was more or less a pleasing result of his power! She was a silly child obsessed by a "fancy" it was not his fault if he could not live up to that "fancy" he liked "facts."
The turf, as we drove into the recesses of the forest, was thickly covered with wild flowers, of many colors and delicate forms; but we liked best the violets, for they reminded us of home, though the driver seemed to think them less valuable than the seeds of the pine-cones. A lovely day and history and romance united to fascinate us with the place.
Claire's ambition had once been babies and a solid husband, but as various young males of the species appeared before her, sang their mating songs and preened their newly dry-cleaned plumage, she found that the trouble with solid young men was that they were solid. Though she liked to dance, the "dancing men" bored her.
I always had my doubts about the thoroughness of women's study, and I should have liked to see where your training failed. I must say I found it very good, I've told you that. You wouldn't fail individually: you would fail because you are a woman." "I don't believe that," said Grace. "Well, then, because your patients are women. It's all one. What will you do?" "I shall not do anything.
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