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His immediate predecessor, a curate in charge, had been one of those in whom a more passionate missionary zeal had been stirred by the Methodist movement "endeared to the more serious inhabitants by warm zeal and a powerful talent for preaching extempore."
But three months having elapsed without my having paid any visit to Lusia, or having answered the letters written to me by the damigella Marchetti, and without sending her the money she claimed of me, she made up her mind to take certain proceedings which might have had serious consequences, although they had none whatever in the end.
The time is ripe for a real analysis of these important problems, a serious and scientific analysis with a clear and practical exposition of facts and principles and rules for conduct.
There was a general belief outside the order that there was a purpose behind all the ceremonial and frolic of the Dens; many joined the order convinced that its object was serious; others saw the possibilities of using it as a means of terrorizing the Negroes.
The word struck home to Mary's consciousness, but she sat down and took her friend in her arms with an air self-controlled, serious, rational. "I see and feel it all, dear Virginie, but I must stand firm for you. You are in the waves, and I on the shore. If you are so weak at heart, you must not see this man any more." "But he will call." "I will see him for you."
"I'll bet he's been up to some mischief, Lucy," said Captain Spark when Bob came home quite late that afternoon. "Perhaps he has. I hope it was nothing serious." "Shall I ask him what it was?" "No, we'll find it out sooner or later, and I don't want his father to worry more than he has to. He has hard work at the mill, and I like his evenings to be as free from care as possible."
Catholicism, he says, is now no more than "an imposing historical ruin." As for militarism, the epoch has arrived in which serious and lasting warfare among the ELITE nations will totally cease. The last general cause of warfare has been the competition for colonies.
They retreated, muttering something; but she went to the back of the house, where David Heddegan was. She looked at him, unconscious of all. The case was serious; she knew that well; and all the more serious in that she liked him better now than she had done at first. Yet, as she herself began to see, the secret was one that was sure to disclose itself.
To affect an air of mystery or secrecy at a dinner-table, is an insult to your companion and company assembled. It is in bad taste to force the attention of the company upon yourself by loud talking or loud laughing. Too many jokes or anecdotes are in bad taste, but the subjects for conversation should not be too serious.
But, because it usually presents a very agreeable and friendly appearance, there is all the more havoc whenever it happens to drop its smiling expression in the spring, and show that it can be serious. At that critical time Smirre Fox happened to come sneaking through a birch grove just north of Lake Mälar.
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