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We shall submit to every ordinance and every requirement of government, except such as are contrary to the commands of the Gospel, and in no case resist the operation of law, except by meekly submitting to the penalty of disobedience.
"I only meant that a man who was so given over to long sentences as you are would probably make too severe a judge in a criminal court," replied the Idiot, meekly. "Do you make use of the same phraseology in the class-room that you dazzle us with, I should like to know?" "And why not, pray?" said Mr. Pedagog.
"Very well, my dear, just as you say," answered the uncle, meekly. "Boys, you won't disturb your father, will you?" continued their Aunt Martha, anxiously. "You know the doctor said he must not be disturbed under any circumstances." "Have you told him about this telegram?" questioned Sam. "Not a word." "Then we had better keep still.
Don Fernando, too, pleaded in Sancho's behalf; and Sancho meekly stumbled to his knees before his master, and kissed his hand frantically, begging him for forgiveness. Whereupon our knight errant with many gestures pardoned and blessed him.
"Which only goes to prove," bantered Rock, "that the Double Cross pulls harder than all the preacher could tell you. I wonder if there isn't a girl at the Double Cross, now!" "There is," Ford confessed, with a grin of embarrassment. "And you shut up." "I just had a hunch there was," Rock permitted himself to say meekly, before he dropped the subject. It was ten minutes before Ford spoke again.
"There's nobody but you shall come an' do for me at the last, if I can have my way about things," said Mercy Crane impulsively. She meant it for a tribute to Miss Dow's character and general ability, and as such it was meekly accepted.
"It's like the ordeal by fire," answered Stephen, meekly taking the cup. With a heroic effort he swallowed three parts of it, and colour began to come back to his face. Katrine observed this, and sat down contentedly on the floor in front of the ambitious fire, that seemed trying to leap up the chimney through the roof.
Since my experience with that pullet I go meekly mushrooming in the fields and pastures; and when I have set the mushrooms stewing over an open fire, Aristides makes the coffee, and in a little while we have a banquet fit for kings or for the poor things in every grade below them that serve kings, political or financial or industrial.
"What have you got there?" asked the old man, roughly. "Show it quick, for there's others waiting." Meekly she unfolded a small shawl, somewhat faded from long use. "What will you give me on that?" she asked, timidly. "It isn't worth much." "It cost five dollars." "Then you got cheated. It never was worth half the money. What do you want on it?"
A few paces further lay its late owner, with twenty Mexican bullets in his breast, his benevolent forehead bared meekly to the sky, as if even then mutely appealing to the higher judgment. He was dead! The soul of the Liberator of Quinquinambo, and of various other peoples more or less distressed and more or less ungrateful, was itself liberated!
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