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I bitterly put it down as accruing from the curse of ugliness, as, when mentioning Gertie, it was ever, "I have let Gertie go to such and such an entertainment. We could not very well afford it, but the poor little girl does not have many pleasures for her years." I was smaller than Gertie, and only eleven months older; but to me it was "You must think of something besides pleasure."
When the last sublime words of the burial service had been read, those two mourners were left, after the others had all departed, still standing together by the grave. Mr. Melton decided on mentioning the circumstance confidentially when he wrote to his friend in Paris. Telegrams from Regina, in reply to his telegrams from London, had informed him that Mr.
Perhaps the event which gave him the greatest pleasure was a casual meeting with little Miss Moucher in a green omnibus coming from the top of Baker Street to Trafalgar Square. It could not possibly have been anybody else. There were the same large head and face, the same short arms. "Throat she had none; waist she had none; legs she had none, worth mentioning."
"But you know, she,... excuse my mentioning it, was an actress!" articulated Andrey Andreyitch, overwhelmed. "An actress! But whatever she was, you ought to forget it all now she is dead, instead of writing it on the note." "Just so,..." the shopkeeper assented.
"I wouldn't for the whole world get you into trouble. It's just a little, simple thing that I want you to find out from some one in the office." "I don't know any one in the office." "But you could find out some one who did? For instance, you know that Mr Oliver who illustrates? I've seen his things in the Loadstar. You could ask him in a casual, off-hand manner without ever mentioning our name."
"Well then I'll ask Miss Maria!" he concluded, mentioning one who was the typical "old-maid" of the town, and who unconsciously bore the brunt of all the young people's jokes.
If you liked each other, why shouldn't you? He said he liked her. The occurrence is fairly typical of up-to-date standards except in one particular. Most girls refrain from mentioning it to mother. Here is another symptom, of slightly different complexion which applies to married life and suggests the extent to which the new principle is bearing fruit, in society circles.
While in Castle Gohrde, Froebel talked with his friends about his favourite plan, which he had already had a view in Gottingen, of establishing a school for boys, and while developing his educational ideal to them and at the same time mentioning that he had passed his thirtieth birthday, and alluding to the postponement of his plan by the war, he exclaimed, to explain why he had taken up arms: "How can I train boys whose devotion I claim, unless I have proved by my own deeds how a man should show devotion to the general welfare?"
"Nothing worth mentioning, mayhap" and Jean spoke with almost studied indifference "what is going on in London, and how the great ladies of the Court are dressed, and the clever things the king says, and how the Duke of York loves sport, and suchlike. It would please you to hear him, for ye have seen the Court."
Thenceforth my lot was cast altogether with the black troops, except when regiments or detachments of white soldiers were also under my command, during the two years following. These details would not be worth mentioning except as they show this fact: that I did not seek the command of colored troops, but it sought me.
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