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For my part it is the joy of my life, and I hope to give up all my life to it." "Do you expect to see Langhetti when you reach England?" asked Brandon, abruptly. "I hope so," said she, musingly. The character of Beatrice unfolded more and more every day, and every new development excited the wonder of Brandon.
Our hope was that we should quickly get on board a vessel. If not, Uncle Paul proposed that we should steer for Tobago, which we might expect to reach in a couple of days. Our chief difficulty was to obtain a boat; and Uncle Paul and Arthur agreed to set out to the south in search of one.
Thence he will pass through Matafele, the one really town-like portion of this long string of villages, by German bars and stores and the German consulate; and reach the Catholic mission and cathedral standing by the mouth of a small river. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr.
Near as the island looked, it took quite a long time to reach it, though Mr. Downs pulled strongly and steadily. It was very interesting, as each stroke took them nearer and nearer, and showed more and more distinctly what their future home was like. The trees, which at first had seemed a solid green mass, became distinct shapes of pines, hemlocks, and sumachs.
It is a long pull to reach her the beautiful monster, towering motionless there in the summer sea, with scarce a curling of thin smoke from the mighty lungs of her slumbering engines; and that somnolent song of our boatmen must surely have some ancient magic in it; for by the time we glide alongside I feel as if I were looking at a dream.
"By doubt," he says, "we come to enquiry; by enquiry we reach the truth." His book Sic et Non, a collection of conflicting opinions of the Christian Fathers on the chief tenets of the faith, was to be the first step towards arriving at the truth. He was condemned twice his doctrine of the Trinity at Soissons in 1121, his whole position at Sens in 1141.
It is true the intention of nature may go here much further, and the means she employs to reach her end may offer in their combination more of art and complication; but all that ought to be placed solely to the account of nature, and can confer no advantage on man himself.
The rowers had set to their work with a will once more, not to reach the Bella Cuba with the best speed, but to dodge from between her guns and the canot. Once she could let her cannon speak, the canot was no longer to be feared.
What am I to say to the General as to Gray and those letters?" asked the staff officer, intent upon the subject uppermost in his mind at the moment. "You can't say anything that will reach him before he returns. You have just told me no other boat would start for a week. By that time he'll be coming home."
Although he felt that the savage must reach the fatal rock before he could adjust another flint, he proceeded to the task with the utmost composure, casting many a furtive glance towards the fearful point.
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