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You and your fellows are our prize poor enough after all the trouble you have given us in chasing you.

These two ideals are stirring my heart and are the secret of my life. In the first place, this invitation chimed with the ideal of my personal life, namely, to diffuse and propagate among my brothers the scientific ideas, which my brain has accumulated, not through any merit of mine, but thanks to the lucky prize inherited from my mother in the lottery of life.

As far as I can judge she didn't seem to put any life into it. You meant the Princess to be a sharp, cunning woman of the world, didn't you? 'No, not exactly; but I agree with you that Olive didn't put life into it. 'Well, anyhow, the play was a great success, and you got, dear Alice, the handsomest prize that has ever been given in the school. 'And how do you think I did the King?

Was that all she meant to him, he asked himself with the sweat of pain on his forehead beneath that black lock which was finding such favor in Lady Claire's eyes was that all she meant to him? a prize to be won?

Promachus drank twelve quarts of wine, and won the prize, which was a talent, from them all; but he survived his victory but three days, and was followed, as Chares says, by forty-one more, who died of the same debauch, some extremely cold weather having set in shortly after.

"I think I would have got a prize in the boat parade if I had this steamer," said Freddie, feeling his craft was really as fine as any that had taken part in the carnival. "Maybe you would," agreed Flossie. "Now let me sail it a little." "All right," said Freddie, and he offered the cord to his twin sister. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I dropped it!"

The sailors who stole Eumaeus from Ortygia, and carried him across the sea to Ithica, obtained their prize by coming to his father's palace, and bringing with them, among other wares, . . . a necklace of fine gold to sell, With bright electron linked right wondrously and well.

"Mrs. McKitterick knit them, and if they take first prize they are to be given to you." "It was too bad to tell," said Elsie. "No, it wasn't!" cried her brother. "They're to be presented to him at Christmas, and he'll need three months to get resigned. Come along and see them." As they threaded their way toward the hall Malcolm glanced at the other young man significantly. Gilbert understood.

"I don't think we shall find any blockade-runner that can run away from the Bellevite; for she has overhauled every one she chased off Mobile Bay, and made a prize of her. I am to open my orders off Henlopen, and then we shall know what our work is to be." "About eight hours from Sandy Hook, as we are running now," added Paul.

But then, you see, they were so very different outside! You would have been inclined to box Bessy's ears, and you would have longed to kiss Hetty. Bessy had been tempted to run the arduous race, partly from mere hedonish gaiety, partly because of the prize.