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But just then the rough voice of Mick himself was heard calling to them to come back; for they had wandered to some little distance from the other children, who were quarrelling and shouting near the vans. "Come back you brats, will ye?" he roared. And the poor little things, like frightened sheep, followed by Tim, hurried back.
"His father is a homely gardener," said the highpriest, "who indeed tills the land apportioned to him with industry and prudence, but is of humble birth and rough exterior. He sent Pentaur to the school at an early age, and we have brought up the wonderfully gifted boy to be what he now is." "What office does he fill here in the temple?"
The boats, notwithstanding the thinness of our ranks, left the vessel at half-past five. The rough weather of yesterday having proved but a summer's gale, the wind came to-day in gentle breezes; yet, the atmosphere being cloudy, it had not a very favourable appearance.
"That you, Jackum?" he said, softly, and he stretched out his hand, to find it touched the black's rough head, which seemed to press itself into his palm. "Iss. Jackum eat big lot. 'Top here now. Car-ee go sleep." The boy sighed, and then there was silence till he spoke again. "Will the black fellows come back soon?" he said, as he thought of the idea he had had about keeping them off.
Natalie's delicately-sensitive soul was to experience this rough contact of reality, and, with an internal shudder, must she bend under the rough hand of the present. Pale, breathless, trembling, rushed Marianne into the room where Natalie, in solitary mourning, was weeping for her lost friend. "We are ruined, hopelessly ruined!" screamed Marianne.
He considerately placed us both in the same watch, knowing that we should like it, as we should be able to talk at night when we were on deck and had no especial duty to perform. We had no reason to complain of the way the men treated us, rough as some of them were.
He leaned back with an apathetic indolence and indifference oddly at contrast with the injudicious daring of his war-provoking words and the rough campaigning that he sought.
If you discover any hastiness in your temper, and find it apt to break out into rough and unguarded expressions, watch it narrowly, and endeavour to curb it; but let no complaisance, no weak desire of pleasing, no weedling, urge you to do that which discretion forbids; but persist and persevere in all that is right. In your connections and friendships, you will find this rule of use to you.
At first I supposed you wished to go because a journey through a rough and little-known country seems to appeal to one kind of Englishman, but I changed my mind when you showed your anxiety to get upon the Gladwyne party's trail." "You were right. I knew the Gladwynes in England; the one who died was an old and valued friend of mine.
Gladys watched her lead the little group of dirty street boys in the slums. "How can she do it?" said Gladys. "They are so dirty and so rough." But the fairy said, "When one wants to serve, she looks at the heart and the life not at the clothes and the actions. The boys are helping her to keep in the way." And after college there were happy days.
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