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It seemed, doubtless, to the professor of the New Literature that if anything could convince him of his own success it must be the energy of his Teutonisms and his avoidance of languid Latin derivatives, fit only for the pedants of the eighteenth century. Literature doubtless is made of words. What then is needful, he seems to ask, besides a knack of beautiful words?
Dickery he had seen at the saw mills he turned and hurried back to his hotel, where he wrote a short letter saying that he had decided to take the express for New York that night.
It was to her like the dawn of a new life, and into that life she threw herself with an abandonment of feeling that evinced itself in unrestrained enjoyment of every thing that presented itself to her view. Dudleigh, however, was very different. In him there had always appeared a certain restraint.
When we came to the hills I got out and walked beside the carriage, straining for the sensation, in this new atmosphere, of the kiss of the outlying desert. "About midnight, at the Camp of the Zouaves, a humble post on the road embankment, overlooking a dry valley whence rose the feverish perfume of oleander, we changed horses.
Did you know poor B ? Well! he's dead now, had fever and went off like a babe in eight hours though he'd been out fourteen years for A and D . They sent him out a new book-keeper, a tender young thing with a dairymaid complexion and the notion that he'd got the indigestion. He fidgeted about it something awful.
Everard could not help smiling at this explosion of valour, engendered by irritated self-love. "Look you, Master Bletson," he said, "I have been a soldier, that is true, but I was never a bloody-minded one; and, as a Christian, I am unwilling to enlarge the kingdom of darkness by sending a new vassal thither before his time.
And thus, from year to year, has every straw been catched at, and every Will-with-a-wisp led them a new dance. This year a still newer folly is to take place. Lord Shelburne wishes to be sent to Congress, and he thinks that something may be done.
We shall be ready at any time to render home knowledge more clear and accurate, to correct faulty observation and opinion. While the children will be encouraged to illustrate lessons from their own experience, we shall fall into the excellent habit of explaining new and difficult points by a direct appeal to what the pupils have seen and understood.
'You can start yourself in business with it, as I hear you're inclined that way, and some day I'll come over and see how you're getting along. That was all!" "And you've never heard of or from him since?" exclaimed Mr. Lindsey. "That's a strange thing, now. But where was he then? Where did he send the money from?" "New York," replied Smeaton.
It was prophetic of that new church brotherhood that is to come after the war is over. They are the lights, the lights of war.
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