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The paper and grain were the same, only one showed that the top had been cut off. There was no shadow of doubt. "You are a horrible woman," said Patty. "Leave this house instantly!" Mrs. Franklyn-Haldene was now thoroughly alarmed. "Not till you have proved the truth of this letter," Patty declared. "I refuse to submit to such gross insults in my own house!" Mrs.

That is just what the militants did, and Welsh interest in their cause fell dead on the spot. But even then they were not happy. They were still encumbered by the good-will of perhaps a hundred Tory M.P.'s. But they proved entirely equal to the task of antagonizing them.

"Can it be possible that you are still harping on the wild words of poor old Nannie?" she exclaimed, and once more, she curled her lip at him. "Nannie is very old, I'll admit," he nodded, "but surely you remember that we proved her right in one particular, I mean about the Tiger Mark, you know."

With the score 11 to 6 against her, Erskine braced up and fought doggedly to score. Neil proved the best ground-gainer, and made several five-and ten-yard runs around right end. Once, with the ball on Woodby's twelve yards and the audience shouting vehemently for a touch-down, Foster called on Paul for a plunge through right tackle.

With a special subsidy obtained in April and May, he had organized the slight attempt at relief, which was all which he had been empowered to make, but which proved entirely unsuccessful. Now that the massacre to be averted was accomplished, men were loud in reproof, who had been silent, and passive while there was yet time to speak and to work.

That's like holdin' a landin'-net ready to scoop her up the minute you get her to the top of the water. "They stopped and asked the clergyman if he were going to Thompsontown, and when he said he was, they invited him to get in and take the unoccupied seat. He proved to be an agreeable companion; he was young and very grateful.

His ideas were not new; he knew there were no new ideas, but he presented his ideas in such a way that they seemed new. It is a significant fact, too, that a large public will respond more quickly to an idea than it will to a name. This The Ladies' Home Journal proved again and again.

Vanity is the great spring of a woman's soul that cannot resist the charm of flattery. This is proved by History from the time of Eve to our days and I myself proved it when I again spoke on the subject of hats. The laughter was not so loud and soon ceased altogether. At last the women answered me, with an annoyed and discontented air, that my insistance vexed them.

Mehemed had been elected and installed by the chief Janissaries, and it remained to be proved whether he would show himself equally anxious to be on good terms with the Christian Powers.

Nothing's anywhere except in your ideas. You think the table's there, but it isn't. There isn't any table." The first boy slapped his leg and lighted a cigarette. "I remember," said he. "Amounts to this: If I were to stop thinking about you, you'd evaporate." "Which is balls," observed the second boy, judicially, again in the slang of his period, "and can be proved so.