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And the parson, to be revenged on Gulvert, on next meeting day called on the congregation for their prayers, to save said Gulvert from the relapsing gulf into which he had fallen.
But it ain't no use no use," he continued, with a fierce gesture, and relapsing unconsciously into the rougher dialect that he had been training himself to avoid. "I can't do it, an' there's no use a-tryin'. There ain't nothin' good for me in this worl' not in this worl'. It's hard to give it up, Miss Mollie harder'n you'll ever dream; but I hain't blind. I knows the brand is on me.
To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
The presence of men has a most rejuvenating effect on Aunt Elizabeth, although she pretends she has never been interested in any man since her disappointment years ago. When she got back and found Harry Goward here, instead of relapsing into her lack-lustre ways, as she generally does, she kept on her interested air.
Shorely stretched out his legs and thrust his hands far down in his trousers' pockets. "It may have been written as you say, although I thought you called my attention a moment ago to its type-written character." "Don't be flippant, Shorely," said Gibberts, relapsing again into melancholy. "You don't like the story, then?
CHIEF JUSTICE HIGGINBOTHAM says that "it is only proper to mention that there is no better nor more useful work done in rescuing discharged prisoners from relapsing into crime, than that effected by the Prison Gate Brigade of the Salvation Army." Similar letters have also been received from the following gentlemen: The Hon. ALFRED DEAKIN, M.L.A., Chief Secretary. The Hon. The Hon. The Hon.
But the ignorance and awkwardness of Ellen, apparent in her attempts to arrange her bed and chamber, so worried her mind, that she was near relapsing into her former feverish and excited state. The attendance of an elder maiden sister was just in time. All care was taken from her thoughts, and she had a chance of recovering a more healthy tone of mind and body.
She signs herself already “Sister of Sainte Euphémie,” the name which she adopted as an inmate of Port Royal, addressing her brother for the most part with the grave formal “you,” but now and then relapsing into the old familiar “thou,” as if she were still in the family home. “Do not take that away,” she says, “which you cannot give.
"I'll think about it," he replied, relapsing into that lazy manner which his friends knew so well. "There isn't much time to think of it," said Mary, rather sharply. "You know father likes his luncheon punctually at half-past one." "Don't let him wait for me. I was always a dawdling fellow." Jamie held Elsie's hand as they walked home through the meadows. Miss Ryan asked Mrs.
And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.
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