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Perhaps these two young lads had felt the calamity which had befallen the city more than any one else in the house; for whilst the father, mother, sisters, and two elder sons were all hard at work doing all in their power for the relief of the sick, the younger lads were kept at home, to be as far as possible out of harm's way, and they had felt the confinement and idleness as most irksome.
They regarded the place as a boon from Providence, that demanded all their gratitude, in spite of the abuses of which it was the subject; and never did it seem to them more exquisitely beautiful, perhaps it never had been more perfectly lovely, than it appeared the hour they left it.
It looks as though it would become interesting." It did indeed. At that moment, wearying perhaps of the howls, the brown men began to make experiments with a view toward changing the tune. Closing in upon the thrall, they commenced to feel of his clothing and his shaven head, and to pinch him tentatively between their lean fingers.
Perhaps it was her bright kind eyes, which seemed to mirror the tranquillity of forests. . . . "You gentry are always talking of love," she marveled. "Oh," he said, with acerbity, "oh, I don't doubt that any number of beef-gorging squires and leering, long-legged Oxford dandies " He broke off here, and laughed contemptuously. "Well, you are beautiful, and they have eyes as keen as mine.
"That's just what I don't want," he said. "Not want?" I exclaimed. "Yes; I want to see clearly before I get used to things." And as, perhaps, I seemed to wonder at this way of beginning, he opened a little, and said, "It is my father. He told me that if ever I came here I was to mind and do his work." "What kind of work?" I asked, anxiously.
Although it has been done, perhaps, with a liberal view, it would seem that the measure was taken to hostilize the Mexican Government, preventing thus any advance from being made to said Government on future export duties on silver or gold, and depriving it of that resource. However, who would benefit by the free export of gold or silver?
Some days ago I happened to fall in with an elderly person, such as is described, with a very pretty female child and a French dog. The man gentleman, perhaps I may call him, judging from his conversation interested me much; so did the little girl. And if I could be the means of directing real friends anxious to serve them " Mrs. CRANE. "You would indeed be a benefactor.
I did not contemplate his becoming a Bishop, nor is that the circumstance which gives me the great satisfaction I feel. It is his devotion to so good a work, and that he should have been found adequate to its performance; whether as a Bishop or as a Priest is not of itself of so much importance. 'Perhaps he may have been consecrated before I am writing this, though I am puzzled as to the time....
Much of the tragedy of life consists of the clashes between wills equally consecrated and pure. Conscientious cranks and blunderers are perhaps even more of a nuisance than out-and-out villains; they hurt every good cause they espouse and bring noble ideals into ridicule; they provoke discouragement and cynicism.
I am so happy this evening, that I wish everyone else to enjoy every moment of it. I believe I'll ask her to sing for us. She sings nicely, and perhaps she would be pleased to, if she knew we wished it." Accordingly, Randy hastened to Polly who was standing apart from the guests, and looking as if in anything but a pleasant mood.
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