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When he was carried down, the surgeon in the midst of a scene scarcely to be conceived by those who have never seen a cockpit in time of action, and the heroism which is displayed amid its horrors, with a natural and pardonable eagerness, quitted the poor fellow then under his hands, that he might instantly attend the admiral. "No!" said Nelson, "I will take my turn with my brave fellows."
To be extremely clean in your person, and perfectly well dressed, according to the fashion, be that what it will: Your negligence of your dress while you were a schoolboy was pardonable, but would not be so now. Upon the whole, take it for granted, that without these accomplishments, all you know, and all you can do, will avail you very little. Adieu. LONDON, January 25, O. S. 1750
He also prepared a rural lecture-course, as well as a plan for securing libraries for the schools. All these propositions were adopted by a union meeting of teachers and farmers. Mr. McClure has pardonable pride in this effort of his, and his own words will best describe the development of the movement: This association meets Thursday night and continues in session until Saturday night.
"Are you staying here?" he inquired. "I ask, because I want a room for a night or two." "That's all right," said Reggie. "They'll be able to give you a room, I think. Your portmanteau has arrived already. Is your name Grey?" "No," replied Derrick, staring at him with pardonable surprise. "Sydney Green." "Oh, well, it wasn't a bad guess," said Reggie, complacently.
In the pardonable ostentation of love I had given all the money I could spare to Flora; I had thought it glorious that the hunted exile should come down, like Jupiter, in a shower of gold, and pour thousands in the lap of the beloved. Then I had in an hour of arrant folly buried what remained to me in a bank in George Street. And now I must get back the one or the other; and which? and how?
'Have you not forgotten that trifle? There is the faintest possible mark of it left. 'I wish to see. She gently defended the arm, but he made it so much a matter of earnest to see the bruise of the old Election missile on her fair arm, that, with a pardonable soft blush, to avoid making much of it herself, she turned her sleeve a little above the wrist. He took her hand. 'It was for me!
We still live in an age when war is, to the imagination of some persons, surrounded with false glories; and the greatest of modern generals has still many undiscriminating admirers. Yet the day is no less certainly at hand when the edicts of Charles V. will be deemed a more pardonable offence against humanity than the wanton march to Moscow.
I hasten to answer that there was no man 'in the station of colonel, by the name of J. T. Smith, under my command, at the battle of New Orleans; and am, respectfully, "Yours, ANDREW JACKSON. "OCT. 19th, 1833." The old general, we suspect, has been insnared by a pardonable little stratagem on the part of the autograph collector.
The saloon occupied the full width of the ship, the sleeping cabins being below. With pardonable pride Carter turned up the flame of the swinging lamp which was the only lamp burning at that hour of the night to give me a glimpse of all this magnificence.
"Are you going to Elm Bank?" he said. "So am I." "You don't live in Elm Bank?" said the young girl, inquiringly. "No," answered Walter, swelling with pardonable pride. "I am going there on business." "Have you ever been there before?" asked his fair companion. "No." "You look young to be in business." "I haven't been in business long," returned Walter, wondering if he looked so very young.
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