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Whatever suddenly aroused memory had stirred the outburst, the paroxysm was over now. "Well, maybe I am tired, child," was all she said, and the two left the room. "Poor, dear old Mother! Poor, tired old Mother!" the girl remarked to herself when she had resumed her place by the dying fire. "Wonder if I'll get that way when I'm as old as she is!"
It is a glorious legacy, and one that has ever been cherished with veneration for the men who left it. He died a martyr to the cause he espoused, but his memory and the cause live.
I now believe that if you had spoken only of duty or truth, or even of God in the ordinary way, I should now be" she buried her face in her hands and shuddered "I should not be in this sunny garden with the memory that your hands have rested on my hands in blessing.
There had been sixteen men at the start, and at the end of four weeks of horror seven had been picked up to tell a tale which would make the blood curdle. The memory of this made me sick with fear and anxiety. Johnson felt so much better from his meal that he stood in the bow with his little monkey-like figure braced against the mast, his legs on the gunwales.
She liked to stop on just that step. Nobody knew all it meant to her, when she did. There are places in every dwelling that keep such secrets for one heart and memory alone. Yes, indeed. Sylvie was very happy now.
He had found out the vanity of pleasure, as his ancestor had discovered the vanity of glory: indeed it was high time that he should die. And die he did; and round his tomb, as round that of his grandfather before him, the starving people sang a dreadful chorus of curses, which were the only epitaphs for good or for evil that were raised to his memory.
She spoke tentatively of her vague settlement work; in all she said she revealed an honesty as forthright as though she were a gaunt-eyed fanatic instead of a lively-voiced girl in a blue corduroy jacket with collar and cuffs of civet and buttons from Venice. Then Carl spoke of his religion the memory of Forrest Haviland.
As Captain Ballard who headed up the affair proclaimed, the "purpose was to collect together the remains of the Confederate soldiers who, in defense of a common cause, found sepulchre upon Fairfax soil, and to erect a monument to the memory of the Confederate dead." Two thousand people were to come in all types of conveyances from the best Washington had to offer down to the backwoods ox cart.
Novel reading is the only one of the splendid occupations of life calling for no instruction or advice. All that is necessary is to bite the apple with the largest freedom possible to the intellectual and imaginative jaws, and let the taste of it squander itself all the way down from the front teeth until it is lost in the digestive joys of memory.
He was soon asleep, but Thirza lay awake, not exactly worrying, for that was not her nature, but seeing Noel's face, pale, languid, passionate, possessed by memory. Noel reached her father's house next day late in the afternoon. There was a letter in the hall for her. She tore it open, and read: "MY DARLING LOVE,
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