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To this remark the prince made no other reply than by a good-natured smile as he took up the bronze helmet which lay beside his sword on the thwart and placed it on his head. Captain Arkal regarded him with a sort of grim satisfaction as he followed up the action by buckling on his sword. The sword in question was noteworthy.
"Excuse me," said a very rosy-cheeked little prelate, "but nothing stronger than water " "Botheration," thought Billy, as he regarded the speaker's nose. "But I thought," said he, aloud, "that you would not refuse this."
The porter evidently regarded this question with some disfavour, for he replied only with an interrogative grunt. It was, in fact, rather an odd question. "Did you get it done for him," Thorndyke pursued. "No, certainly not, sir. He got it done for himself. The laundry people used to deliver the basket here at the lodge, and Mr.
Why I went to Eastlake I don't know, it was dreadfully inconvenient, and my director did what he could to keep me working. But, as you know, I persisted. Why?" She stopped and regarded him imploringly, through the romantic veil. "I haven't the smallest idea," she continued.
In fact, in a wild state they might be regarded as the same; but it is well-known that the flowers of the snowball are sterile, and do not produce the beautiful bright crimson berries of the "Pembina." Lucien lectured upon these points to his companions as they floated along.
I had such a thought now and then and, indeed, for many days together. I regarded it as a sign of virtue and of humility; but I see clearly now it was nothing else but a temptation. A Dominican friar, of great learning, showed it to me very plainly.
The desert was popularly regarded as the residence of demons. There exist in the world few regions more desolate, more abandoned by God, more shut out from life, than the rocky declivity which forms the western shore of the Dead Sea.
One of those bulky garments swathed his slim figure, while over his left arm hung a gray tweed Norfolk coat. From his right hand dangled a pair of trousers, in pattern a modish black-and-white. Jock regarded the gray garment on his arm with moody eyes. "Well, I'd like to know what's the matter with it!" he demanded, a trifle irritably.
Secular education he regarded as "not only reprehensible, but detestable, and likely to work utter ruin to the child, and I certainly should upon this ground alone decide that this child ought not to remain another day under the care of her mother."
Only by means of the belief in a crusade could the peace-loving American people be prevailed upon to wage war. Regarding the effect upon the Senate of the President's appeal, I sent the following telegram to the Foreign Office: CIPHER TELEGRAM "Washington, January 23rd, 1917. "Wilson's appeal has met with general approval in Senate, and is regarded as a further energetic step in peace movement.
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