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Darwin has very forcibly urged, that nothing is commoner than if you examine a dun horse and I had an opportunity of verifying this illustration lately, while in the islands of the West Highlands, where there are a great many dun horses to find that horse exhibit a long black stripe down his back, very often stripes on his shoulder, and very often stripes on his legs.
ALONZO BARNARD, of Farmington, Ohio, who was in Mississippi in 1837 and 8, says: "The slaves were often severely whipped. I saw one woman very severely whipped for accidentally cutting up a stalk of cotton.
The change in their conduct was owing to the change in their relations, and to their loving the praise of men more than the praise of God. The Bishop of Erzroom exceeded all others in bitterness against the followers of the Gospel. He had spies in every part of the town, and often upon the roofs of houses adjacent to the dwellings of the missionaries, to observe who were their visitors.
He impressed me, this country specialist. He had a solid grip of fact and a cool, clear, common-sense brain, which should take him some way in his profession. Holmes listened to him intently, with no sign of that impatience which the official exponent too often produced. "Is it suicide, or is it murder that's our first question, gentlemen, is it not?
He often talked to me about that, poor fellow. I thought a year or two at Hyde Park Gate would do you no harm, and might be wholesome training; but it has proved a failure, I see that. 'They would be happier without me, I went on, more quietly, for he was evidently coming round to my view of the case.
Before the chief portal of his Hall, the elder Millbank, with an air of some anxiety, surveyed the landscape and the heavens, as if he were speculating on the destiny of the day. Often his eye wandered over the park; often with an uneasy and restless step he paced the raised walk before him. The clock of Hellingsley church had given the chimes of noon.
And that is largely because he alone understands the depravity of the spirit, as well as of the flesh, and the amazing wantonness, whereby the human will does not always seek its own realization and well-being, but quite as often its own laceration and destruction.
It was a childish way of expressing my admiration of the painting. If you will give me the privilege of sometimes calling to look at it, I shall be greatly indebted." I hurried down stairs, fearful of committing myself in some way, so as to betray the secret of my birth. "I wish you would come and see us often, Mrs. Linwood," said Mrs. Brahan, as I bade her adieu.
The letters of my platoon are largely love letters often the love letters of married men to their wives. There is immorality in the Army; when there is opportunity immorality is rife. Possibly there is more abroad than there is at home. If so it is because there is far greater temptation.
Sometimes if you do exactly what's right, you hurt some one you don't wish to hurt, and if you don't do exactly what's right, perhaps that some one else hurts you. So, often, we would rather be hurt than hurt." With the last words she turned from the fire and involuntarily faced him. Their eyes met.
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