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Lucy had always looked on picking berries as a serious business, like life itself. She was a little astonished to see these girls turning it into play, leavening it with laughter. Lucy had been brought up on the saying, 'duty first, pleasure afterward, though in her particular case, duty engrossed the day so completely that pleasure was of a necessity postponed to some indefinite future.
She at once became gentle, sycophantic, almost caressing in manner, and assured me that the ceremony of taking the vow would be indefinitely postponed, although the Bishop of Lugon had already prepared his homily, and invitations had been issued to the nobility. Madame de Mortemart is the very embodiment of subtlety and cunning.
The paper told of a beautiful but quiet funeral ceremony, while the daughter has postponed her marriage for six months." Then he recounted the adventure of the exploding car. Cleary lit his malodorous pipe, and shook his head thoughtfully. "Young man, you know your own affairs best.
You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those around you. Phineas, as he preached to himself this sermon, declared to himself that they who attempted more than this flew too high in the clouds to be of service to men and women upon earth. As he did not see Lord Brentford that day he postponed writing to his father for twenty-four hours.
The light gravelly soil, on which the greater portion of the city is built, enabled these works to be postponed, until the increased number and compactness of the population, and excess of wealth, would render the expense less burdensome. The first attempts at paving were made on Superior street, below the Square, and on River street.
On account of his father's death it is to be a very quiet affair only blood relatives. While I was alone with Mr. Philander the old fellow became rather confidential. Said Miss Porter had already postponed the wedding on three different occasions.
If this crisis came now, it was going to hurt her and hurt Peter, and do no good to any one; while, if it could be postponed six months, perhaps it would not hurt so much. It was better for Peter to endure his blindness a little longer than to see too soon. So the next day she decided she would not kiss his eyes. He came to her in the morning, and stood before her, waiting.
To those who have regarded Cicero as a philosopher as one who has devoted his life to the pursuits of philosophy does it not appear odd that he should have deferred his writing on the subject and postponed his convictions till now? At this special period of his life why should he have rushed into them at once, and should so have done it as to be able to leave them aside at another period?
His whole right side was affected, and he was unable to be present at the coronation of his son which had been postponed to November 1.
Percy, grateful to Lady Jane, and willing to indulge her affection in its own way, gratified her with permission to arrange the whole ceremonial of the wedding. Now that Rosamond's marriage was postponed, she claimed first right to be her sister's bridemaid; Lady Florence Pembroke, Mrs.
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