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Anyhow, though you seem to know a bit about German, you could scarcely invent immortal poetry. We took our belongings to a green crook of the burn, and made a very good breakfast. Wake had nothing in his pack but plasmon biscuits and raisins, for that, he said, was his mountaineering provender, but he was not averse to sampling my tinned stuff.
"If it was difficult for me to understand you, Phaidor," I replied, "can you not understand that possibly it is equally difficult for you to understand the motives, the customs and the social laws that guide me? I do not wish to hurt you, nor to seem to undervalue the honour which you have done me, but the thing you desire may not be.
Should the Prince persist in his obstinacy, Don John summoned them to take arms against him, and to support their lawful Governor. He, moreover, required the immediate restitution of Antwerp citadel, and the release of Treslong from prison. Although, regarded from the Spanish point of view, such demands might seem reasonable, it was also natural that their audacity should astonish the estates.
"That is quite a history," said Ozma; "but there is a little more history about the Land of Oz that you do not seem to understand perhaps for the reason that no one ever told it you.
Her hard expression changed and she almost whispered: "It will seem like a new life." "I mean to make a new life, if you will help me. I want to get away from all the old useless days. I want to do things which are worth while." "Shall you soon go into Parliament?"
Everything I have written here I should tell her at least the beautiful part of it, the part about our love, which nothing in life, and not even death itself, could quench. Oh the joy of those days! It may seem strange that I should have been so happy so soon after my bereavement, but I cannot help it if it was so, and it was so.
But it did seem to her extraordinary that even now, after knowing him so long, she could tell so little of the workings of Gerald's mind. All, of course, because he was such a considerable part of him a foreigner. Aurora was one of those healthy sleepers who have no care to guard themselves against the morning light.
I have used a writing-table in this room because I like tables better than heavy desks, and because in this small apartment a desk would seem heavy and ponderous. The fittings of the desk are of dark red leather, like that of many of the book-bindings, and the personal touch that makes the desk mine is a bowl of roses.
There is no propriety at all in such young boys as you having anything to do with anything of the kind, and your papa and myself positively prohibit you the use of these things till we think them more necessary than we do at present.... "You will remember that you have promised in your first letter to be an economist. In your last letter you seem to have forgotten all about it.
Well, I drank deep of that life," Constance looked dreamily over the stretch of meadow and pine-edged woods, all dazzling with a shimmer of icy snow, "before I took to " "Crime?" Jock suggested. "It would seem that that was the natural sequence to such a career." "Jock Filmer I took to philanthropy." "As bad as that?" Jock roared with laughter.
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