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As it seems it will not take long to reach the island why not send the seventh Simon? He will steal the fair maiden fast enough, and then the king, her father, may consider how he is going to bring his army over here it will take him ten years to do it! -no less! What do you think of my plan? 'What do I think? Why, that your idea is capital, and you shall be rewarded for it.
She explored every part of the enclosure, and lingered a moment in the arbour among the china-trees as if she enjoyed that spot more than any other but she came back at length with the same anxious expression, that told she was not rewarded by the recovery of whatever she had lost.
The great things and the small, the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the unconscious, are all at work, helping themselves, and serving each other, and contributing with one consent to the welfare of the great mysterious whole. Nature's laws are so framed that idleness is everywhere punished, and honest industry everywhere rewarded. Everywhere obedience is life, and disobedience death.
His heart was softened as he watched the tears running down the cheeks of this light-hearted child, and he could not help reflecting that goodness was indeed well rewarded when it could win such tender and enduring love as was cherished for the poor dead mother on the pedestal before him.
"What should we have done without you!" was all she said, but Malcolm felt amply rewarded for his trouble. They talked a little more about Leah Jacobi, and then Elizabeth said suddenly "I have an idea. I will go to the Manor House and talk to Mrs. Godfrey it is our affair, and we must not shunt our responsibilities on other people's shoulders and then I can judge of this poor Leah."
Listen to the language of one of the responsible authors of the policy since followed by such fearful consequences, Sir John Hobhouse who, on the 11th July 1840, on the occasion of a dinner given to their richly and prematurely rewarded hero, Lord Keane, thus poured forth his insane, exulting avowal of the real object they had had in view:
I would rather have fallen in with my friendly Arabs, as it were by chance, and have rewarded their fidelity at the end of our joint journeyings by a donation of piastres to be settled by myself, and which, under such circumstances, would certainly have been as agreeable to them as the stipulated sum. In the same way I dislike having waiters put down in my bill.
He is in truth, in the power, in the hands, of another, of another will . . . attracted, corrected, guided, rewarded, satiated, in a long discipline, that "ascent of the soul into the intelligible world." No man occupies a more commanding position in the Churches of England than Dr. Gore.
Their labours were rewarded by the acceptance of the work by Bentley and Colburn, and its triumphant success with both critics and public, seven editions being called for in the first few months of its career. ''Tis a jewel. 'Is Nottingham far intil England, sir? asks the simple Shepherd, to whom the above advice is given. 'For I would really like to pay the Hooits a visit this simmer.
The affecting admonition of the little judge who, when passing sentence upon me, adverted to the former respectability of my life, and the rank of my relatives actually made the galleries weep. "Four months in Newgate, and a fine to the king, then rewarded my taste for horse-exercise; and it's no wonder if I prefer going on foot.
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