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It is indisputable that this breaking up of the home is reacting seriously upon the moral character of the present generation; there is a carelessness in assuming the responsibility of marriage, and too much shirking of responsibility when the burden weighs heavily.

Thomas, accompanied by George Meeks and his squaw as interpreters, are to meet Captain Jack there without escort or even side arms. Now, Captain, tell me seriously, what you think of this affair." I said: "General, they may go, but they will never return." The General then asked me if I would have a talk with Gen. Canby. I told him that if Gen.

She would be somewhat more afraid to show it, delicate as she is. It is only friendship honest friendship, on her side; and if her affections be not engaged somewhere else she may be mine: if if I please if I can bring myself fairly to propose we shall see I shall think of it." And now he began to think of it seriously.

Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face and you ought to be in tatters." "That's all the Patch part, though. How should Anthony look?" "You look like Anthony," she assured him seriously he thought she had scarcely seen him "rather majestic," she continued, "and solemn." Anthony indulged in a disconcerted smile.

"In simple justice to those people from Darrow that you evicted from the Sawdust Pile, Don, you should finish your work before you go. If they were not fit to inhabit the Sawdust Pile, then neither is Nan Brent. You've got to play fair." Jane had returned to the attack. "Look here, Jane," her brother answered seriously: "I wish you'd forget Nan Brent.

It was all very well as long as I could nurse him, but now that woman's come there's nothing I can do for him.... I've I've never done anything all my life for him. He's always done everything for me. And I've been a brute. Always laughing at him.... Think, Barbara, think; for eighteen years never to have taken him seriously. Never since I married him.... I believe he's going to die.

She told her friends and neighbors that a stranger was driven into her house by a thunder storm, and talked to her so seriously, that she began, while listening to his discourse to feel concerned about her soul.

I begin to suspect you of being a humorist, Manley. And even if you mean that seriously why, it's all the funnier." To prove it, she laughed. Manley hesitated, then left the room with a snort, a scowl, and a slam of the door; and the sound of Val's laughter followed him down the stairs.

White gentlemen of the first rank are desirous of being invited to their parties, and often become seriously in love with these fascinating but unfortunate beings. Prejudice forbids matrimony, but universal custom sanctions temporary connexions, to which a certain degree of respectability is allowed, on account of the peculiar situation of the parties.

The little girl explained with the simple seriousness and sweetness so characteristic of the answers children make to questions asked them regarding things in any degree mystical. The other small girls listened as sweetly and as seriously. Then, with one accord, they returned to the gay delights of the occasion.