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"I am not here to explain her actions if I could," said Junius, who had not sat down. "She said: 'Tell him I accept him. That is all. Good morning." "But, stop!" cried Lawrence, on his feet again. "You must tell me more than that. Did you say to her only what I said to you? How did it affect her?" "Oh," said Junius, turning suddenly at the door, "I forgot that you asked me to observe her mood.

One of the young Indians went with me, to observe my manner of shooting. I killed three more pigeons in the course of the afternoon, and did not discharge my gun once without killing. Henceforth I began to be treated with more consideration, and was allowed to hunt often, that I might become expert. Game began to be scarce, and we all suffered from hunger.

"Ah, how happy you must have been!" she said, looking at me eagerly, without a shadow of its former distrust left in her expression. I took advantage of her newly-aroused confidence in me to observe her face, with an attention and a curiosity which I had hitherto restrained myself from showing, for caution's sake.

For the word heaven, in Scripture it is variously to be understood, but generally either materially or metaphorically; now not materially here, but metaphorically; and so is generally, if not always, taken in this book. And observe it, though the church of Christ under the tyranny of antichrist, loseth the title of a standing city, yet in the worst of times she loseth not the title of heaven.

He worked with a will from early morn till dewy eve, and was happy in the thought that he had at last found something that he could do. It made the simple-hearted fellow proud to observe that he was actually gaining his father's regard; or, at all events, softening the disappointment which, in a vague way, he knew that his dulness must have caused him.

"Not long after these events," continues Count O , in his narrative, "I began to observe an extraordinary alteration in the disposition of the prince, which was partly the immediate consequence of the last event and partly produced by the concurrence of many adventitious circumstances.

I found that the minister had not read the story as it is written in the Bible, but a version of it written by himself especially for this purpose and entitled "The Little Lame Prince." At church, as elsewhere, the children of our nation are quick to observe, and to make their own, opportunities for doing as the grown-ups do.

If you want a sarvint I'll hire; for, as I said a while ago, I want a place, an' except wid you I don't know where to get one." "If you come to me," observed the other, "you must go to your duty, an' observe the fast days, but not the holydays." "Sarvints isn't obliged to obsarve them," replied Bartle. "But I always put it in the bargain," returned the other.

To observe, that was all; there remained in them none of the vital quality of illusion which would make them wonder or speculate, else a religion might have grown up around these mysterious visitations.

If we do not improve, we grow worse. This, at least, is what we observe daily. Nor again can we believe, as some have fancifully imagined, that the remembrance of any occurrence of which the effect has been entirely, or almost entirely mental, should be remembered by offspring with any definiteness.