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'I'm no auld eneuch to min' upo' that, mem, returned Betty revengefully, but in an undertone, as if she did not intend her mistress to hear, And although she heard well enough, her mistress adopted the subterfuge. 'Sweir not at all, Betty. Ye hae made a mistak ony gait. 'Wha says that, mem? 'Robert. 'Aweel, gin he be tellin' the trowth 'Na, na, mem.

John and Nan fled like chaff before the wind, while Di, full of remorseful zeal, charged at the kettles, and wrenched off the potatoes' jackets, as if she were revengefully pulling her own hair. Laura had a vague intention of going to assist; but, getting lost among the lights and shadows of Minerva's helmet, forgot to appear till dinner had been evoked from chaos and peace was restored.

During the war, the pressure of patriotic duty, as his new but reluctant enemies alleged, held him steadily to his old faith; but now, when he could do it without positive danger to the country, he was bent on administering discipline to the party and its leaders. They likened him to Mr. Van Buren, revengefully defeating General Cass in 1848; to Mr.

Not lightly, thoughtlessly, as boys sometimes will in imitation of their elders, but bitterly, revengefully, as if the seeds of evil passions were already pushing to life in the boyish breast I thought so innocent. Did you wonder at the strange woman who stopped you? Did you realise the awful woe from which my commonplace words sprang?

Watkins of Hartford or Adams, as he persisted in calling himself reclined in his berth, his unlocked treasures carelessly scattered about him. "Hold fast to the all good," counselled Bean revengefully. "Uh hah!" said Watkins or Adams, not doing so. Bean fled. Everybody was getting it. The little old steamer was becoming nothing but a plague-ship.

'I came to find out whether you were telling lies about me, and I should never have thought it possible but for my bad conscience. I know you had every excuse for being embittered and for acting revengefully. It seems you have only told lies about yourself. As, after all, you are my wife, I shan't allow that. Once more she turned upon him passionately. 'I am not your wife!

The rescuers came back with all the crew, save one the man who had challenged the old woman and revengefully burned her cabin. Rachel's body was buried where her house had stood, and the rock before unknown where the brig had broken long bore the name of Rachel's Curse. The black, pyramidal beacon, called Nix's Mate, is well known to yachtsmen, sailors, and excursionists in Boston harbor.

'Our miserable technical rules reach but a little way into the mystery' which 'dimly foreshadows that whatever we with our small capacities have been able to love and honour, God, who is infinitely wiser, juster, and more powerful, will love and honour too, and that whatever we have been compelled to blame, God, who is too pure to endure unrighteousness, will deal with, not revengefully or capriciously, but justly and with a righteous purpose.

Shot might enter the cabin, or the ship might catch fire, or blow up, or be sent to the bottom; or the pirates, when they had lost all hope of escaping, might, in their rage, revengefully put them to death. Jumbo had removed the dinner things, and Captain O'Brien managed to project his head far enough from the stern windows to get a sight of the stranger.

"Mischievous enough, you find them, probably, but amenable there it is, amenable but this lad" Mr. Cradlebow paused again, shaking his head with a meaning to which he gravely declined further expression. "What is your name?" I inquired of the little boy, hopefully. "Simmy B.," he answered revengefully in a tone of alarming hoarseness.