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His father was very proud of him, and used to speak of him as a steady sort of man, but was very grieved that he did not marry and settle down.
After 1580 a wave of French Huguenots, principally silk-weavers, fled from their native country and were allowed to settle in London, Canterbury, and Coventry.
You settle down at last for a few hours sleep on a couple of chairs in a waiting-room, but are prevented by a loquacious gentleman who calls himself a "chasseur des hotels," and says that when a man has sought all night and found nothing, he is generally ready for a proposition.
"I presume you will try to square the account in some sneaking manner. Well, I warn you now and here that it will not be healthy if you try any dirty tricks on me. If anything underhand happens to me, I'll know who was the originator of it, and I'll settle with you. That is business!"
With Aristarchus the scientific imagination had reached its highest flight; but with Hipparchus it was beginning to settle back into regions of foggier atmosphere and narrower horizons.
You shall take me! I am ready to go. Perhaps what?" "I was only thinking," she went on, "you find it, I know, impossible to settle down to work anywhere. But with him, if he could find something " Aaron sprang to his feet. "I would work my fingers to the bone!" he cried. "It is a glorious idea, Julia. I have to give up the collecting my bicycle has gone. Let us start."
The only thing for you to do is to settle down and take interest in your work, and help make a living at home, or else go out as a nurse-girl, and work your way up. If you have any ability in you it would soon show. If you think you could do such strokes, and the home work is not good enough for you, go out and show the world what a wonderful creature you are." "Mother, you are unjust and cruel!"
Naturally he was eager to develop them, to encourage squatters to settle within their borders, and for that purpose to give them an assured position and a form of stable government. If he could have effected this without touching the Slavery Question I think that he would gladly have done so.
"But, my dear child, I did not mention the object of my interview in my note to President Matthews," declared the manager. "The secretary would have nothing to tell these girls of any moment. She would naturally attach no importance to such a letter." "That is true." Lucy looked abashed for an instant. Her old shyness seemed about to settle down on her.
Mr. Gordon then again said: "We will not settle it here, but elsewhere." It was finally agreed that Senators Hamlin and Howe, as friends of Mr. Conkling, and Senators Ransom and McDonald, as friends of General Gordon, should endeavor to adjust the difficulty.
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