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I dared not quit the house and leave her alone in such a state; and I longed ardently to hear the clocks chime five, and the sound of Johanna's wheels on the roughly-paved street. She could not be here yet for a full half-hour, for she had to go up to our house in the Grange Road and come back again. What if Julia should have fainted, or be dead! That was one of the longest half-hours in my life.
"Truly, fair gentlewoman," answered the youth, "your real proverb says that the longest lane will have a turning, and mine was more it was, in fine, a turning off." "Good!" said the merry young maiden, "it is an apt play on the word and what occasion was taken for so important a catastrophe? Nay, start not for my learning, I do know the schools in plain phrase, why were you sent from service?"
Six days later they saw land again, took the sun, and found their latitude 80 deg. 11'. Certainly no men had ever been within less than ten degrees of the pole before. On the longest day of the year they landed on this newly discovered country, which they at first fancied to be a part of Greenland.
She laughed. "That may be forever." "I reckon it will be some hours at longest." "You must be a wonderful detective!" "There's more of the bulldog than the detective in me. But it will go hard if we don't find that bag." "Thank you again. We shall see!" she said.
"If ever you see her, and she begins that way, up hat and cut stick, double quick, or you'll find the road over the Alps to Umbagog, a little the longest you've ever travelled, I know. "Well, she had no sooner done than Cranbery jumps up on eend, and sais he to the guide, 'Uncle, sais he, 'jist come along with me, that's a good feller, will you?
And following her guidance, here we are in the dear round room time enough to catch the last rays of the sun, as they light the noble landscape which lies like a panorama around us, lingering longest on that long island of old thorns and stunted oaks, the oasis of B. Heath, and then vanishing in a succession of gorgeous clouds. October 28th. Another soft and brilliant morning.
Removed a little from these groups Lady Montgomery, very much like a turtle, sat with her head erect and her eyes half closed, evidently sleepy. It was upon Lady Montgomery that Madame von Marwitz's gaze dwelt longest. "You are contented," she then said to Gregory, "with these good people; for yourself and for your wife?" "Perfectly," said Gregory.
I look back with regret upon that large sum of time, which, in my youth, I lavished away idly, without either improvement or pleasure. Take warning betimes, and enjoy every moment; pleasures do not commonly last so long as life, and therefore should not be neglected; and the longest life is too short for knowledge, consequently every moment is precious.
It was the rosy summer solstice, the longest and fairest day of all the year. But rose-color and sunshine had fled from Wall Street. Noisy Crisis towing black Panic, as a puffing steam-tug drags a three-decker cocked and primed for destruction, had suddenly sailed in upon Credit.
That any such knowledge can ever be acquired it is impossible to say; but this much may with safety be advanced, that distant journeys may frequently be taken with balloons for useful purposes. One of the most remarkable excursions of this kind was that superintended by Green, in 1836, from London to Germany. This journey, 1,200 miles in length, is the longest that has been yet accomplished.
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