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She sat down and could not speak the room whirled round and round her white feebleness touched Mrs Morgan's heart. "You've had no tea, I guess. Indeed, and the girls are very careless." She rang the bell with energy, and seconded her pull by going to the door and shouting out sharp directions, in Welsh, to Nest and Gwen, and three or four other rough, kind, slatternly servants.
When Heymann, who had already begun to show symptoms of the mental disorder which ultimately overcame him, left the Conservatory in 1881, he recommended MacDowell as his successor a proposal which was cordially seconded by Raff. But there were antagonistic influences at work within the Conservatory.
He was a very fair speaker, too, and on several occasions he had seconded resolutions and made quite clever speeches at political gatherings in his own county, Perthshire. Indeed, politics was his hobby; and, with money at his command and influence in high quarters, there was no reason why he should not within the next few years gain a seat in the House.
This motion was also seconded, put, and carried, and Ralph designated three boys in the company, one of whom, Joe Foster, had more than an ordinary reputation for learning, as a committee on resolutions; and, while they went down to the breaker office for pen, ink, and paper, the meeting took a recess.
"Yucatan!" sang out Rob and Ole Petersen calmly seconded him with a nod "Yucatan!" The gathered population of Valdez men, women, children, and dogs greeted the vessel with a general outcry of welcome.
The motion was seconded by many members; and though postponed for the present, in favour of an act of trade under the consideration of the house, it was afterwards resumed with great warmth.
But now, this earthquake, by virtue of which the cities of the nations fall, and as an effect of which great Babylon is come into 'remembrance before God, neither spares one of the daughters of this whore, nor any man that is a lover of them; but it so is seconded by a 'hail-storm, and that hail-storm worketh so in wrath, that not one escapes by repentance.
They traveled on horseback, you remember, and to beguile the tedious hours when they advanced slowly along the dusty road, they took turns in telling the stories which Chaucer gives us in the wonderful 'Canterbury Tales." "I never did know just why they went," Betty ventured, in some confusion lest they should laugh at her. "Neither did I!" John promptly seconded. "Please tell us, Mrs. Pitt."
The Liberal Leader, Sir William Vernon-Harcourt, the political as well as the personal friend of Mr. Gladstone, seconded the motion. He paid a heartfelt tribute to the memory of his eminent colleague, and spoke in a vein of lofty and glowing eloquence until overcome with emotion, so that he had to stop thrice to wipe his eyes; finally he completely broke down and was unable to proceed. Mr.
It was about a week after this conversation that Merefleet, invited by Seton, joined his two friends at table d'hôte at their table. The suggestion came from Mab, he strongly suspected, for she seconded Seton's proposal so vigorously that to decline would have been almost an impossibility. "You look so lonely there," she said. "It's miles nicer over here. What's your opinion?"
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