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It was an act of generosity; I have seen many of these acts, and always regretted always regretted! 'That shall be his inheritance, he said, as the papers burned; he did not mean that it should have proved so rich a one. How rich, time will tell."
As they went toward the chairs in the shade of the tree, he added, "It is a long time since we have seen you in this part of town walking, I mean."
Uncle was a kind friend to me, and I really think I can't do better than give a good steady husband to his child." "Bravo! bravo! when you have found her." "What do you mean by when I have found her?" "Why, have you never read the letters?" "No; I never read letters. They're all in the wooden box." "Then where, when, or how, have you encountered a daughter of your uncle?" "Why, Martha Brown.
God bless you, Hannah; and God bless the poor boy, too. I mean to adopt that child, Hannah, and cowhide his father within an inch of his life, if ever I find him out!" "Talk of all this on Sunday when you come, Reuben; not now, oh, not now!" "Sartinly not now, my dear; I see the impropriety of it. Good-by, my dear. Now, shan't I send Nancy or Peggy over to stay with you?"
"Now what on earth do you mean by that?" "A lot. Tony! Almost you've got the " "Well?" "The money face." "Money face?" "Um! You mustn't laugh, it's a dreadful face. Daddy had it. He caught it during the rubber boom and it never went away. Are you still doing things with that beastly syndicate, Tony?" "Here, chuck it," he implored humorously. "We're sitting on the floor, you know. 'Tisn't fair."
Lord of Heaven and Earth! because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes . No; the haughty priests of learning not only banished from the schools and marts of science all who had dared draw living waters from the fountain, but drove them out of the very Temple, which mean time the buyers, and sellers, and money-changers were suffered to make a den of thieves.
"You are an American," his father said to him the day before school opened; "not a foreigner, like almost every child you will find at school. Remember that." "He doesn't understand what you mean when you talk to him about being an American," the boy's mother said the next morning as we all watched the child run across the street to the school. "How could he, living among foreigners?"
Life could never be purposeless nor mean nor empty for her again, while she had that treasure to carry about with her in her heart.
The wild geese, flying over Number Nine, had called to Jim with news from the Arctic, and he had looked up at the huge harrow scraping the sky, and said: "I seen ye, an' I know what ye mean."
If any country boy really knows the stuff he handles, whether it is hardware or candy or hides, he can get the chance all right. This town wants him. Don't you know that the big wholesale houses recruit their sales forces by spotting just such boys as your John Wesley Farwell may be? But what do you mean by calling him average, if he's such a keen judge of hardware?"
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