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Or she was mildly playing on it, to give herself an air. He had no remembrance of such baby English at Baden. There, however, she was in a state of enthusiasm the sort of illuminated transparency they show at the end of fireworks. Mention of her old scapegrace of a father lit her up again. The girl there and the girl here were no doubt the same.
He was not at all pleased to see the visitor, but he was too much of a gentleman to show it. One would suppose, that the remembrance of what had happened, three days before, would have caused Arthur some embarrassment; but such was not the case. On the contrary, he was as dignified as ever, and seemed to be perfectly at his ease.
"Would I come here for good? There is no good in any of your kind. I came here to tell you that I was glad that there is one Borson less." "There has been death among your own kin, mistress," said David, "and such death as should make the living fear to bring it to remembrance." "I know it. You ought to fear.
There are few passages in Holy Writ more frequently brought to remembrance by the incidents of everyday life than this "Ye know not what a day or an hour may bring forth."
Among the great men of modern times he gave the first place to Gustavus Adolphus, and the next to Turenne and the great Conde, to Turenne in honour of his military talent, and to Conde to prove that there was nothing fearful in the recollection of a Bourbon. The remembrance of the glorious days of the French navy was revived by the statue of Duguai Trouin.
I looked on the rapid currents which ran constantly on both sides of the island at a distance, and which were very terrible to me, from the remembrance of the hazard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me; for I foresaw that if I was driven into either of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and perhaps out of my reach, or sight of the island again; and that then, as my boat was but small, if any little gale of wind should rise, I should be inevitably lost.
"Oh, mother," she exclaimed, "how glad I am to see you once more!" "Haven't you a kiss for me, too, Ida?" said the cooper, his face radiant with joy. "You don't know how much we've missed you." "And I am so glad to see you all, and Aunt Rachel too!" To her astonishment, Aunt Rachel, for the first time in her remembrance, kissed her. There was nothing wanting to her welcome home.
"Surely he will yield to me in this," she said. Nor was she wrong; for glad of an opportunity to make some concessions, and still in the main have his own way, Wilford raised no objection to the plan as communicated to him by Katy, when, at an earlier hour than usual, he came home to dinner, drawn thither by a remembrance of the face which had haunted him the entire day, and bringing as a peace offering to both wife and sister a new book for the one, and for the other a set of handsome coral, which he had heard her admire only the week before.
Nevertheless, the remembrance of the old severity always remained, and the habit was taken to put off baptism so as not to discourage sinners overmuch. Monnica, always sedulous to conform with the customs of her country and the traditions of her Church, fell in with this practice.
His eyes passed all description in their combination of the whole diapason of eloquence, from lover's deep love to fellow-man's gratitude for a token of remembrance from one of his kind. Elfride had come back. What she had come to do he did not know. She could only look on at his death, perhaps. Still, she had come back, and not deserted him utterly, and it was much.
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