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This was the opinion that Bill had formed, and he was rather alarmed by hearing Master Arthur pressing his friend to take his class instead of the more backward one, over which the gardener usually presided; and he was proportionably relieved when Mr. Bartram steadily declined.

He was very generous with those same apples was "Stuffy" though one was tempted to think that he shared his fruit not so much from choice but rather because he disliked the hard work that was sure to follow a refusal of the pressing invitation to "go halvers."

And in case the tendency towards an organization of labor in the national interest became dominant, it might be possible to embody it in a set of definite legal institutions. But any such set of legal institutions would be impossible without an alteration in the Federal and many state constitutions; and consequently they could not in any event become a matter for precisely pressing consideration.

"More than anything else in nature. I love great plains too, but I like them best because they are like the sea when they billow under the breeze." "You don't like the mountains at all?" asked Genevieve. "Oh! no, I stifle there. I dream at night that they are pressing in to strangle me. I went to Cauterets with mama after she had bronchitis.

Edith soon became so oppressed by her mother's sighs and silence and the heavy perfumed air, that she sprang up, and pressing a remorseful kiss on the white thin face, said: "I must dress for dinner, mamma: I will send your maid," and vanished also. The dining-room at six o'clock wore a far more cheerful aspect than the invalid's room upstairs.

What Mr. Le Breton really wants is not Egypt, or old wine, or Sir Antony, or anything of the sort, but relief from this pressing load of anxiety and responsibility. Put him in my hands for six months, and I'll back myself at a hundred to six against Sir Antony to cure him for a monkey. 'For a what! the Progenitor asked with a puzzled expression of countenance.

Weighing these reasons, Ibarra realized the situation and saw that with all the old man's pessimism there was a great deal of truth in what he said. "I believe you!" he exclaimed, pressing the old man's hand. "Not in vain have I looked to you for advice.

Wallace had also done the right thing, pressing the enemy on his own front and sending a brigade to relieve the pressure on McClernand.

Oh! why had she not been a better daughter, more loving, more devoted? why had she ever cared for anything but to make him happy? She sobbed aloud, while Madame de Nailles, pressing her handkerchief to her eyes, stood at the foot of the bed, and the doctor, too, was near, whispering to some one whom Jacqueline at first had not perceived the friend of the family, Hubert Marien. Marien there?

Larkins, with the most pressing engagement in front of him, would have spared me just as much time as I liked to give him. I did not know what was in my letters, nor what might happen. Now, when I rose I had nothing to anticipate but fifteen hours of monotony varied only by my meals. My niece proposed that I should belong to a club, but the members of clubs were not of my caste.