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There were many who wanted such land, and there was not enough for all; so that people quarrelled about it. Those who were better off, wanted it for growing wheat, and those who were poor, wanted it to let to dealers, so that they might raise money to pay their taxes. Pahom wanted to sow more wheat; so he rented land from a dealer for a year.
You know how I had set my heart upon that marriage." "I am very sorry," faltered Clarissa. "They had quarrelled, I suppose." "Quarrelled! O, dear no; she had not seen him since she left Hale with Frederick and me, and they parted with every appearance of affection. No; there had been some letters between them, that was all. I have never been able to discover the actual cause of their parting.
He felt them to be nearer the truth than Shelley. Even if they suffered or quarrelled, they would have been nearer the truth. He wondered whether they were Henry Adams and Jessica Thompson, both of this parish, whose banns had been asked for the second time in the church this morning. Why could he not marry on fifteen shillings a-week?
Oh, I see, I see what since that night you have thought of Lewis! It was the next day that you quarrelled in the coffee house! Oh, all these months, have you been mistrusting Lewis Rand, believing him concerned with that man, suspecting him of of of treason? There, too, you are mistaken. Listen!" She came closer to him, all colour, light, and fire against the dark cedars. "I am going to tell you.
"I say, don't please; you hurt," said Andrew, screwing up his face. "Oh, I beg your pardon," cried the boy. "I didn't mean to grip so hard. I say, though, is it as the officers say to the soldiers?" "What do you mean?" said Andrew wonderingly. "As you were?" "Of course. I'm sure our fathers never quarrelled and fought, and I swear we never will." "That's right," cried Frank.
Here Tilda was forced to stoop and rub her calves, thus in one moment demonstrating by word and action how much she had to learn before qualifying to shine in Society. So for the first time the two children quarrelled, and on the first day that invited them to cast away care and be as happy as they listed.
'The end of it was that Miss Nunn consented to marry me. 'She consented? 'That comes as a surprise? 'Please go on. 'Well, we arranged everything. Rhoda was to stay till the fifteen days were over, and the marriage would have been there. But then arrived your letter, and we quarrelled about it. I wasn't disposed to beg and pray for justice.
Now we were on the deck of the brigantine and must stop talking, and thence, after the Spaniards had quarrelled over us a while, we were taken ashore and led to the top of a house which still stood, where Cortes had made ready hurriedly to receive his royal prisoner.
Sometimes when I'm playing Maggie to Montgomery's George I wonder if she did. And I just wonder now and then if I would have thrown him over as she did. I mean for good and all. It seems to me if she'd cared for him, cared really, you know " "She did," interposed Marion harshly. "Wouldn't she have quarrelled and made it up again? Would she have been quite so hard on him?" "Yes, she would.
"She'd undoubtedly think so too, if you were in bed with pneumonia. Since you're all in vigorous health she imagines you can get on without her. But she's not having a very jolly time of it, I should judge. Cheer her up with a lively letter, not a peevish one," was Jarvis's advice. "You can do that." "I'm not writing." "Not?" Max was surprised. "You and Sally haven't quarrelled, have you?"
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