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Of course old Lira might still make himself disagreeable, but I fancied him too much a man of the world to desire a scandal, when no good could follow. The one shadow in the future was the anger of Benoni, who would be certain to seek some kind of revenge for the repulse he had suffered.
Graeme was not disappointed in her new sister, and that is saying much, for her expectations had been highly raised. She had expected to find her an intellectual and self-reliant woman, but she had not expected to see so charming and lovable a little lady.
I was convinced that the scoundrel spoke of himself, and I saw my conviction reflected in Miss Dartle's face. 'This I also had it in charge to communicate. I was willing to do anything to relieve Mr. James from his difficulty, and to restore harmony between himself and an affectionate parent, who has undergone so much on his account. Therefore I undertook the commission.
Thereupon the Romans, since the structure on which they were to stand when fighting was very narrow, devised the following remedy. Binding together long timbers they suspended them between the towers, and in this way they made these spaces much broader, in order that still more men might be able to ward off the assailants from there.
Being come to the warden's, he asked me again the same questions he had asked me before; to which I gave him the like answers. Then he told me the penalty I had incurred, which he said was either to pay so much money or lie so many hours in the stocks, and asked me which I would choose; I replied, "I shall not choose either.
Qui s'excuse, s'accuse; and unless a matter can hold its own without the brag and self-assertion of continual demonstration, it is still more or less of a parvenu, which we shall not lose much by neglecting till it has less occasion to blow its own trumpet.
Here she was, a woman of high education, and much wealth, in the midst of this nascent community. Her thoughts pondered the life of these scattered farms of the hard-working women in them the lively rosy-cheeked children. It was her ambition so to live among them that they might love her trust her use her. Meanwhile their own home was a "temple of industrious peace."
Dab-Dab opened the bookcase-door and Cheapside strutted out trying hard not to look guilty. "Cheapside," said the Doctor sternly, "what did you say to Miranda when she arrived?" "I didn't say nothing, Doc, straight I didn't. That is, nothing much.
"What do you mean?" "I've given it up." "Given it up! What for?" "To come back here." I took this all in slowly. "Tim Clare," said I at last, "do you mean to say that you have given up an English estate and fifty thousand dollars a year to be a remittance man at five hundred, and a cow-puncher on as much more?" "Exactly," said he. "Tim," I adjured him solemnly, "you are a damn fool!"
They don't give me time to digest anything; and you are quite right, it's a system!" "Well," said his son, "at least they don't treat you much worse than they do the people's representatives. It has become their regular plan now to bring in six bills all rolled into one, in a form far too big and complicated ever to be properly discussed.
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