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"William," said the dean to his son, his patience tired with his nephew's persevering nonsense, "explain to your cousin the difference between a battle and a massacre." "Dear cousin William," said Henry, "that must ever be the case with every one who is killed."
Our own part of the work went on very joyfully, notwithstanding occasional trying and painful incidents. Individual cases of greed and selfishness and vice brought us many a bitter pang. But the Lord never lost patience with us, and we durst not therefore lose patience with them!
"But he was not an ill-tempered king; and, in any matter of less moment, he would have let the queen have her own way, with all his heart. This, however, was an affair of state. "The queen smiled. "'You must have patience with a lady, you know, dear king, said she. "She was, indeed, a very nice queen, and heartily sorry that she could not oblige the king immediately.
I was sure I was right, said the Lawyer; 'he is the very image of his father. Come, Colonel, what do you think of, that you do not bid your guest welcome? I think I believe I trust we're right; never saw such a likeness! But patience; Dominie, say not a word. Sit down, young gentleman.
I sat with her all the evening. We said hardly anything; she laid out her game of patience, I silently looked at her cards. She did not refer by a single word to her story, or to what had happened the day before.
Many people who do not understand its real nature nor how to come into possession of it realize their need of it. Much of the teaching on the subject of patience proves to be ineffectual because the teacher himself does not understand his subject. Sometimes it is taught that all impatience comes from sin in the heart, and that if one manifests a lack of patience he is not sanctified.
With difficulty would they be induced to wait five years before they were able to gather the uncertain fruits of their labor and patience.
Perhaps long habit, and a natural desire to follow up the career which I have so long pursued, may make this, in a manner, necessary, as my past experience has already proved that it is practicable. From this statement too long, I fear, for his patience the reader, who feels any curiosity about the matter, will understand the real extent of my embarrassments in my historical pursuits.
Won't it comfort you to think that he's nothing but a mortal man like the rest of us? . . . and that with a little patience your charms will most probably prevail with him as easily as they once did with me? Isn't that worth hearing?" "I don't understand you," she replied curtly. "Then you are very dense, my dear girl," he remarked smilingly. "Pardon me for saying so!
The president of the university addressed the tumultuous many hundreds before him, for tumultuous they were until he quieted them. He talked to them soberly of patriotism, and called upon them for "deliberation and a little patience." There was danger of a stampede, he said, and he and the rest of the faculty were in a measure responsible to their fathers and mothers for them.
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