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"Ponce is learning the English language. Ponce is mastering the mysteries of American money. Ponce is inquiring into the methods of American politics. Ponce is preparing to abandon the church schools and adopt our system of education. Papeti, the chambermaid in the Hotel Francais, has already been taught to say, "Vive l'Americano!" Papeti's brother was shot by the Spanish a few years ago.
Faith builds a safe bridge to God, and to Him there are no mysteries." Her touch upon his brow thrilled him, and her presence was both exhilarating and restful. At last she said, "I am sorry you have these dreadful headaches so often." "I shall never be again." "Why so?" "Because they have led to this evening. It has been so many long, miserable years since I experienced anything like this."
I pity the men of talent who bring trouble upon themselves by their toil and their zeal. Something of like nature happened in time past to Pierre Abelard, to Gilbert de la Porree, to John Wyclif, and in our day to the Englishman Thomas Albius, as well as to some others who plunged too far into the explanation of the Mysteries. St.
His arguments, statements, and reasonings finished, he looked at the queen, saw that she was melancholy, saw that the ladies were melancholy also, and noted the fact that they were all acquainted with the mysteries of matrimony. "Did I not see the Abbot of Turpenay here just now?" said he.
In a city where social problems are solved by algebraic equations, adventurers have many chances in their favor. Even if this family were of gypsy extraction, it was so wealthy, so attractive, that fashionable society could well afford to overlook its little mysteries.
I told him, I believed several, but I could not possibly remember; for I had never read any but Dr. I then acquainted him with the Discovery made by Mr. Warburton of the Eleusinian Mysteries couched in his 6th book. What Mysteries? said Mr. Addison. How! replied Addison. You never mentioned a word of any such Mysteries to me in all our Acquaintance.
Initiation into such a society is often elaborate and solemn it is carried out in great detail in many Polynesian, African, and North American tribes but its general features are the same as those of the earlier procedure. Savage societies and civilized mysteries all have their secrets and their moral instruction, and they all represent an advance in individualism.
That day his brookside singer became the Song-sparrow; the brown triller, the Veery Thrush. The Trilliums, white and red, the Dogtooth Violet, the Spring-beauty, the Trailing Arbutus all for the first time got names and became real friends, instead of elusive and beautiful, but depressing mysteries.
She found that she had a woman's heart, and that she had given it irrevocably to Warren Hilland. She did not tell him so far from it. The secret seemed so strange, so wonderful, so exquisite in its blending of pain and pleasure, that she did not tell any one. Hers was not the nature that could babble of the heart's deepest mysteries to half a score of confidants.
Many are the mysteries of housekeeping in India, and puzzling its problems. If you could behead your butler when anything went wrong, I have very little doubt everything would go right, but the complicated methods of modern justice are no match for the subtleties of Indian petty wickedness.
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