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The expression which Captain Oliphant mentally applied to the writer as he re-read this pleasant passage was not wholly flattering, and his countenance, as I have said, bore traces of considerable pain. However, after a little meditation it cleared somewhat, and he wrote: "It seems to me a pity you should take up a position which can only end in trouble all round.
He was not fond of reading, and only liked books of adventure which were food for his warlike sentiments and his ideas of honor and honesty. He preferred the works of Major Driant, and re-read them even during his mathematical year. Returning from a walk one Thursday evening, he knocked on the prefect's door to ask for a book.
James read it over carefully, and then he re-read it before making a remark, as if to be sure that he was not mistaken in the quality of the composition. "That is good, Ben. It is really good, much better than I supposed you could write. Indeed, I did not know that you could write poetry at all. It is not quite equal to Virgil or Homer, but good for a printer-boy to write.
They gave us pieces of whalebone, and the teeth and other parts of curious sea animals, and we exchanged books with them, a practice very common among ships in foreign ports, by which you get rid of the books you have read and re-read, and a supply of new ones in their stead, and Jack is not very nice as to their comparative value. Thursday, November 12th.
The Magnus, flushed and embarrassed, turned to Septimius. "I was not mistaken in understanding that you were my fellow-soldier in years past?" His answer was a surly nod. Pompeius, however, reined his rising feelings, and took up and began to re-read some tablets on which he had written an address in Greek, to be delivered before the king. Agias rowed on with the energy of helpless desperation.
"No; I never heard of it, so far as I know." "Go and read it, and if, after reading it, you come back well." And nothing more would she say on the subject, but branched off to her experiences in many lands. I borrowed a copy of the Report, read and re-read it. Quickly I saw how slender was the foundation on which the imposing structure was built.
While Frona retired to change her clothes in one of the smaller cabins, which the masculine owners readily turned over to her, her father saw to the welfare of the mail-carrier. The despatches were of serious import, so serious that long after Jacob Welse had read and re-read them his face was dark and clouded; but he put the anxiety from him when he returned to Frona. St.
As for Dick, he fancied that the Suez Canal was one of the roads to Heaven. Before he climbed into his bunk, however, he re-read Mr. Forbes's letter, and noticed then that it bore signs of interference, while von Kerber, if he had not opened it, must have jumped to the conclusion that it came from London solely because the stamp was an English one.
I know them." She stopped short and re-read the letter, turned it about and then laid it down. "Just as if he'd known you for years. And you scarcely spoke to him. Did he say anything to you as if he cared for you?" "No, he didn't," said Phyl quite truthfully. "Did he look at you as if he cared for you?" "No," replied the other, dreading another question. But Miss Pinckney did not put it.
Uriel's face grew grim: the puckers in his brow that her fingers had touched showed once more as terrible lines of suffering; his teeth were clenched. The old look of the hunted man came back. He took out her first note, which he kept nearest his heart, and re-read it slowly "Why ruin thy life for a mere abstraction? Canst thou not make peace?" A mere abstraction! Ah!
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