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Thither he went, to find its door as firmly closed as a door can be. He knocked on it, but a sepulchral echo was the only answer. "I know," he reflected. "The Director must still be in his room. It will take him a long while to examine all that jewellery and put it away."
It is worth while noting that the boss who was then supposed to hold the power of appointment in that district has since been driven from power, but the Congressman, though he was defeated when his party was lately divided, has been reflected.
The infant was born alive; it should not be stifled!" The unknown bowed his head in his hands, and reflected for some moments; then raising his head, he said, "Despite my prohibition, monsieur, you have opened the valve." I dropped the cord. "Happily," he resumed, "we have still three hundred pounds of ballast." "What is your purpose?" said I. "Have you ever crossed the seas?" he asked.
You would be dead before you had got half way. Go into my closet, and take my great cloak, and the mittens, and the double-soled shoes lined with flannel." I was so smart in my fine clothes that I reflected whether it would be better to follow his advice, and he, seeing my hesitation, said: "Listen! a man was found frozen yesterday on the way to Wecham.
We never carried the books into the society, and we never read Mrs. Jameson's letter about them, though we did feel somewhat guilty, especially as we reflected that Flora had never forgotten the affair of the jumbles, and might possibly have allowed her personal feelings to influence her.
I dared not take a single step beyond my own door; and in the evening I had forty wax tapers lighted before I ventured to leave the shade. I reflected with horror on the frightful encounter with the schoolboys; yet I resolved, if I could command sufficient courage, to put the public opinion to a second trial. The nights were now moonlight.
'That you should wish for acquaintances, is reasonable enough. Take a house somewhere in the western suburbs. One or two men I know have decent wives, and you shall meet them. 'But you? You won't live with me? 'You know my view of that matter. Nancy kept her eyes down, and reflected. 'Will it be known to everybody that we don't live together?
Presently cracks became numerous, and glancing behind him Bob noticed a wide black space along the shore at the point where they had taken to the ice, and could see in the distance farther to the northwest, as it reflected the light, a white streak of foam where the angry sea was assailing the ice barrier. He realized at once that the wind and sea were smashing the ice.
I looked at the notebooks. Nearly two hours' work had made a considerable impression on the matter that I had to transcribe, but still, a great deal of the task yet remained to be done. However, I reflected, I could put in a couple of hours or more before going to bed and there would be an hour or two to spare in the morning.
But nursed in superstition, and educated in dark and turbulent times, when every thing intellectual was in a state of restless transition, the genius and character of great men necessarily reflected the peculiarities of the age in which they lived.
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