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She sat quite pale and still while the milk was heating, and then drank it meekly, said good-night to Hannah and went up-stairs. She could not go to sleep, although she went at once to bed, and extinguished her lamp. She lay there and heard a clock down in the hall strike the hours. The clock had struck twelve, and she had not heard Dr. Ellridge go.
"Now look here, Mr. Croft," and Lydia's tone was cheerfully decisive. "You sit down in that rocker, please, and let me command the ship for a while. This is one of the cases where a woman is necessary. First and foremost, what were you hunting for?" "My hat and the butter," said Anthony meekly, and at this unique combination they both laughed.
At least, I know this would be the case with me, and I think that when I speak for one I do for both." "I must admit, Arthur, that you are right. Though I have not quite as impulsive a heart as yourself, and am not nearly as proud-spirited, I cannot always bear meekly the curtness and harshness with which Mr. Delancey treats us.
Mr Armstrong meekly acquiesced in the proposal, and scarcely less exhilarated than his pupil, retired to pack for the journey. Roger meanwhile occupied the interval before starting by writing a letter in the study. Since his father's death he had taken quiet possession of this room, one of the pleasantest in the house.
Her eyes encountered those of the gentleman, and she stood up meekly, like a school-girl aroused from her task, and remained, with her eyes bent on the floor, waiting for the man to pass on. He did not move, however, but stood gazing upon her snow-white hair, her thin old face, and the gentle stoop that had, at last, bent her shoulders a little, with infinite compassion in his face. "Mrs.
"Do you expect to emulate the charge of the Light Brigade, in some tilt against fancied wrong?" Daisy looked at her friend; she did not quite understand him, but his last words were intelligible. "I don't know," she said, meekly. "But if I do, it will not be because the order is a mistake, Captain Drummond." The Captain bit his lip. "Daisy," said he, "are you the only soldier in the family?"
He had expected the Chestnut to rear and plunge, to fight desperately on finding a stranger on his back and he was prepared for it, but greatly to his surprise, the horse showed no signs of fight and went meekly out of the corral at his bidding.
Norah slipped out of the hammock. "There's Dad!" she said. "Come along!" She was tall for her fourteen years, and very slender "scraggy," Jim was wont to say, with the cheerful frankness of brothers. Norah bore the epithet meekly she held the view that it was better to be dead than fat.
Give me nobler and higher reasons for enduring meekly what my Father sees fit to send, and I will try earnestly and faithfully to be patient; but mock me not, or any other mourner, with the speech, "Do not grieve, for it cannot be helped. It is past remedy." But some remedy to Mary's sorrow came with thinking. If her father was guilty, Jem was innocent.
And you most graciously professed to enjoy it, which earned my deep gratitude and admiration. For no one knows better than I," he added meekly, "that it is no great comfort or pleasure to ride behind my father's oxen." She smiled retrospectively. "Do you remember how the people on the porch hurried to the railing?"
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