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"Take that back and get in your wagon and beat it," he announced distinctly, with a calmness which the other mistook for mildness. "If your name is Hess, this young woman is not going back with you, and I warn you now to be off." "So that's it, is it?" the heavy voice sneered. "She's my mother's hired girl, an' she stole a lot o' food an' ran away this mornin'. Comes o' takin' in an asylum brat "

And quoth another: 'In mildness stability lies and clemency wins us respect, And safety in soothfastness is for him who is soothfast and frank; And he who would get himself praise and renown for his wealth from the folk, In the racecourse of glory must be, for munificence, first in the rank."

It has grown almost as painless as modern dentistry." "It's our odious insensibility that makes it so!" Mr. Langhope received this with the mildness of suspended judgment. "How else, then, do you propose that Bessy shall save what is left of her money?" "I would rather see her save what is left of her happiness. Bessy will never be happy in the new way." "What do you call the new way?"

I comforted, scolded, laughed, preached, and adjured in a breath; and then, drawing my another gently on, entered my father's study. At the table was seated Mr. Squills, pen in hand, and a glass of his favorite punch by his side. My father was standing on the hearth, a shade more pale, but with a resolute expression on his countenance which was new to its indolent, thoughtful mildness.

Wood is proved to have acted, what is to be expected of persons whose mildness, or equity, or common humanity no one will dare to vouch for? If such things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry? And what else then can Colonial Slavery possibly be, even in its best estate, but a system incurably evil and iniquitous?

Strange and significant was the fact that the ice had decreased in quantity as the South Pole was approached, whilst fogs and storms were incessant, and the atmosphere was always heavily charged with moisture, and the temperature of surprising mildness.

His amiable deportment as a slave, the patience, mildness, and benevolence of his disposition, and the purity of his conduct amid the general laxity of morals which prevailed in the island, gained for him many of those advantages which afterwards gave him such absolute ascendency over his insurgent brethren.

'I can't leave my father, I said. 'Nor I you, dear, said the tender woman; and so we remained to be scourged by this tongue of incarnate rage. 'You pensioner of a silly country spinster! sounded like a return to mildness. My father's chest heaved up. I took advantage of the lull to make myself heard: I did but heap fuel on fire, though the old man's splenetic impetus had partly abated.

The members of the congregation at Arvieux, indeed, complained of his spending so little of his time among them; but the comfort of his cottage at La Chalp, and the comparative mildness of the climate of Arvieux, were insufficient to attract him from the barren crags but warm hearts of Dormilhouse.

"You forget yourself, James," said Socrates, with a mildness he would not have employed with any other pupil. "I beg your pardon, Uncle Socrates," said Jim, with contrition, "but I can't be silent when I am accused of things I don't do." "To be sure, you have some excuse, but you should remember the respect you owe to me. Then you did not do it?" "Certainly not, sir."