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I observed, however, that if I did so, I should have to protect myself. I hauled a little off, and endeavoured, by holding up a branch and a tomahawk, to gain their confidence, but they were not to be won over by my show of pacification. An elderly man walked close to the water's edge unarmed, and, evidently, directed the others.
The door being only half shut, I opened it, went in, and standing upright before the niche, I repeated this prayer aloud: "Praise be to God, who has favoured us with a happy voyage, and may he be graciously pleased to protect us in the same manner, until we arrive again in our own country. Hear me, O Lord, and grant my request."
I'll tell you what, Mr. Gorm, you'll find that something will come of it. What do you think I took this letter for?" "You took it, I hope, for Mary's protection." "And by she shall be protected." "She shall, undoubtedly; but I fear not by you. For the present I will protect her; and I hope that soon a husband will do so who will love her. Now, Mr.
Put yourself in my place, and you will not long hesitate what to do." "It is a delicate and painful subject for me to speak of to you, Mrs. Leland." "No matter. Speak out without disguise." After some reflection, the lady said "I have daughters, and am tremblingly alive to their good. I feel it to be my duty to protect them from all associations likely to do them an injury.
And the girl took both the Vagre's hands, kissed them, and added with tremulous lips: "If those Franks should kill you! "If they should kill me, little Odille?" Saying this the Vagre turned his head towards the hermit, and pointing to him with his eyes added: "Should the Franks kill me, yonder good hermit-laborer will protect you."
A handy volume issued by the Government printer contains most of the Labour Laws of New Zealand. They are now twenty-six in number, comprising Acts, amending Acts, and portions of Acts. Their aim is not the abolition of the wages system, but, as far as may be to make that system fair and tolerable, and in protecting the labourer to protect the fair employer.
The moment the doctors were convinced that I had gone over their heads and had sent a characteristic letter of protest to the Governor of the State, that moment they began to protect themselves with an energy born of a realization of their former shortcomings.
His father went to live in the country, to protect the lad's morals, and Eugene faded, in reminiscence, into a pale image of the depressing effects of education. I think I vaguely supposed that he would melt into thin air, and indeed began gradually to doubt of his existence, and to regard him as one of the foolish things one ceased to believe in as one grew older.
And how can we sit here and discharge the constitutional obligation that is upon us to pass the appropriate legislation to protect every man in the land in his freedom, when we know such laws are being passed in the South, if we do nothing to prevent their enforcement?
And O Valentine, whom can one trust, if not the man one has known all one's life!" Mr. Hawkehurst pledged himself to protect his mother-in-law from any attempt at persecution upon the part of her husband.
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