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At the close of a long day's work we found ourselves differing on the renderings of "tomb" or "sepulchre" in one of the narratives of the Resurrection. This was easily and speedily settled the following morning. The seventh rule was as follows: "To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation."
We settled ourselves comfortably. M. Le Mesge sat down before the desk, shot his cuffs, and commenced as follows: "However much, gentlemen, I prize complete objectivity in matters of erudition, I cannot utterly detach my own history from that of the last descendant of Clito and Neptune. "I am the creation of my own efforts.
"I guess I never dreamt how you lived, Jethro," she said gently. "But it don't make no matter. You're contented with it." "I ain't a rich man," said Jethro, with some quiet pride; "but I've got enough. Yes, I like my business; and city life suits me. You'll fall in with it, too." Then silence settled between them; but that never troubled Dilly.
I had an idea, however, that the lady thought that, if I were going to speak at all, this was the time. She must have known that certain sentiments were afloat within me, and she was not unreasonable in her wish to see the matter settled one way or the other. But I did not feel like taking a bold step in the dark.
He told me that he was the first white man who settled in this part of the country; that some ten years ago, when the Mexican government was full of colonization schemes, the object of which was to break up the Missions, and to introduce a population antagonistic to the Californians, he received a grant of land, sixty miles one way and twelve another, about sixteen or seventeen hundred acres of which he had now brought under cultivation.
The object of the leaders of this movement is no longer concealed; and if there is any thing in their action to admire, it is the candor, courage, and ability with which they press their cause. The agitation is to go on until the question has been settled by the country, and it may as well be met here upon the threshold.
I know similitudes will not hold in all things; but we that believe are set free from the curse of the law by another man's obedience. Let then the believer, as was said, study and pray, and read God's Word continually, for the sake of the glory of this truth, that it may be made more his own, and that his conscience may be more and more settled in the power and glory thereof. Fourth.
"We shall see how he will be this evening. Of course, you have heard the news, Don Paolo? Besides, you see I am at work, so that the first great difference has been settled. Lucia managed it she has an eloquence, that young lady! She could preach better than you, Don Paolo." "She is a little angel," exclaimed the priest, tapping his niece's dark cheek with his white hand.
For the last four days the rain had ceased, had ceased at any rate at San Jose. Those who knew the country well, would know that it might still be raining over those vast forests; but now as the matter was settled, they would hope for the best. On that morning on which they started the sun shone fairly, and they accepted this as an omen of good.
The help that Austin could give night and morning was just what Harry needed with his milking and other chores, and here Austin found a home at once. This family was congenial, and Austin was soon settled and steady at his school-work. He was made to feel that what he did fully paid for what he received and that he was not in any way an object of charity.
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