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"But you will begin at once?" "What, making peace?" "No, father, war," cried the lad eagerly. "Yes," said Sir Morton sternly, "if the Edens do." "Oh, father, how calmly you take it all. I should have thought you would be ready to begin at once."

On the far bank of the Rhine appeared a mighty host the king with his guests and they drew nigh to the strand, where damsels, led by the bridle, stood ready with welcome. When they from Issland, and Siegfried's men of the Nibelung, saw that the ships were come, they hasted to the beach and laid hold, for they spied the king's friends that waited on the other side.

To uphold the important truths whereof I knew myself to be the sole and responsible supporter, I was always ready to make any sacrifice. But to fight for my person, my career, my name, did not attract me in the least and thus also rarely met with success. So for days, weeks, and months I worked without the slightest result.

You are ready to take your oath to it that Colonel Lyon had no idea he was sitting for his picture, and thought of nothing in the world besides his own occupation of the moment. Although the collection did not embrace, I understand, nearly the whole of Raeburn's works, it was too large not to contain some that were indifferent, whether as works of art or as portraits.

"Marietta," said he, starting on the horse, "do you think much about growing old?" "I guess I don't," said Marietta brightly, and at once. "That's a terrible foolish thing to do. Least, so it seems to me." "But you don't feel as you did fifteen years ago, do you, Marietta?" He asked it wistfully. She was ready with her prompt assurance. "I don't know 's I do.

I drove the colt down an' talked with that Jap chemist who's been doin' the experimentin'. Gee! They was foremen lookin' over the ground an' everything gettin' ready to hum. I looked over the lay an' studied it. Then I drove up to where they're openin' the clay pit you know, that fine, white chalky stuff we saw 'em borin' out just outside the hundred an' forty acres with the three knolls.

If, therefore, it shall stand with thy horrible cunning, and with the cunning of the rest of the princes with thee, to come and make an attempt to take Mansoul again, send us word, and we shall to our utmost power be ready to deliver it into thy hand.

There was nothing very especially Russian about him, however, and when he had taken his coat off and brushed a place on which to put it and then flung it on the ground and stamped on it, I felt quite at home with him and ready for anything. He called up one of the attendants and asked him whether he had ever played the guitar.

She paused: but as no compliment ensued, she continued, in a more pettish tone, "And for that reason, I do hate to be made to play any thing twice over." "I did not know that, my dearest love, or I would not have asked you to do it; but I am the more obliged to you for your ready compliance." "Obliged!

He found the senate ready to vote, with their balls in their hands. "He advanced to the tribune.