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Waldron now permitted himself some vague expression of regret that the young man should have been absent on such an occasion. "Yes," said Miss Ironsyde, to whom he spoke, "if there's any excuse for convention it's at a funeral. No doubt people will magnify the incident into a scandal for their own amusement and the amusement of their friends.
The package was no doubt safely hidden in a corner he could not quickly find. No he must wait, and watch. "Good-by, until dinner," he said, "and may you find much in your wise companion's book to justify your conduct." He went out through the open window, and in another moment stood just outside Miss Norton's room. She put a startled head out at his knock. "Oh, it's you," she said.
He preached a new gospel of patriotism not the patriotism that means a boisterous cheering of the Stars and Stripes wherever unfurled, but the patriotism that proposes to keep the Stars and Stripes clean and worth shouting for. In one place he said: "We teach the boys to atrophy their independence.
He hadn't been there long when Unc' Billy Possum came shuffling along, just as if he was out walking for his health. "Howdy, Mistah Buzzard! Ah cert'nly hopes yo'all feel right smart," said Unc' Billy. Ol' Mistah Buzzard's eyes twinkled as he replied: "Ah feel right pert, Brer Possum, thank yo'. Ah hopes yo' feel the same. Yo' look like nothing ever bothers yo'."
"I have not done with Nat yet, Sophy, and I shall be obliged by your ceasing to talk nonsense. It worries me." This was said in so quiet and decided a way, and in the voice of one so accustomed to command, that my aunt said: "Well, Richard, I suppose it must be as you wish." "Yes, if you please," he said quietly. "I have the boy's interest at heart as much as you."
Yet the time came, and not so very long afterward, when some mention was made of the incident as a mistake, and he said, with all his fierceness, "But I don't admit that it was a mistake," and it was not so in the minds of all witnesses at second hand.
They said, 'To hear is to obey. Then they began to circle each round the other, circling more and more sharply till beyond the stretch of sight, and Shibli Bagarag said to Feshnavat, 'Am I not awake, O Feshnavat? I will know where is Karaz ere I seek to operate on Shagpat, for it is well spoken of the poet: "Obstructions first remove Ere thou thy cunning prove";
Next, the window was slowly raised, and he began to make preparations to enter the room. Then Herbert felt that it was time for him to appear. Stepping intrepidly to the window, he said: "I know your purpose. Unless you go down instantly, I will shoot you." There was no tremor in his voice as he said this. Courage came with the occasion, and his tone was resolute, and self-possessed.
"You won't laugh at me?" "I promise not to laugh, but I won't promise to believe." "If my husband is dead," said Alice, "he is dead and I shall never see him again in this world; if he is still living, he is somewhere in this world, and it's my duty to find him." "I will agree to that," assented her hearer, "but you know that I have no faith that he is alive.
Internecine competition, ruthless selfishness, so internecine and so ruthless that, as I have wandered in tropic forests, where this temper is shown more quickly and fiercely, though not in the least more evilly, than in our slow and cold temperate one, I have said: Really these trees and plants are as wicked as so many human beings.
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