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The poor devil had no education at all, a fact of which the natives soon became aware, as it was a marvel for them to see a Spaniard who didn't know how to read and write. Every one ridiculed him and the payment of the tax was the occasion of broad smiles. He knew that he was an object of ridicule and this tended to sour his disposition even more, rough and bad as it had formerly been.
They are reluctantly overcome not without pleasure by his fierce authority; and they can play the "little mother" to his weakness. The maternal instinct is as ironical as it is tender. It smiles at the high ideals or the eccentric child it pets, but it would not have him different.
"Why did I not die!" was the only thought that found utterance in the midst of a torrent of ideas that racked and ravaged her brain. "My daughter," said the terrible judge, "there is a love which is unconfessed before men, but of which the secret is received by the angels with smiles of gladness." "What is that?"
They all stop one way or the other to look down at Mrs. Jilkins' clawin's on the side o' the ditch, 'n' they say the way she dug in the time she finally made it's almost beyond belief. The minister says it's nothin' but a joy to him to welcome his friends. He lays there 'n' quotes 'All thy waves 'n' billows went right over me, 'n' smiles under his cotton, but Mr.
A pleasant trait is narrated by his genial biographer, Dr. Smiles, who notices that on one occasion he stopped to speak to one of his wealthy acquaintances in a fine carriage, and then turned to shake hands with the coachman on the box, whom he had known and respected in his earlier days.
Eva thanked him with smiles, blushes and appreciative words; his own two with hugs and kisses in addition to the thanks given in words. "Mine's ever so pretty, papa," Lulu said, turning it about in her hands. "I am glad you are pleased with it," he said, smiling, "but are you going to be satisfied with looking at the outside? don't you want to examine the lining also?"
These the Emperor called his "cats." At the door of the grating stood two slaves, Pallas and Alexander, and watched every change in the Emperor's face. "He smiles," whispered Pallas; "then it is all over with us. Brother, we shall meet again. Pray for me and give me the kiss of peace." "The Lord shall deliver thee from all evil, and preserve thee for His heavenly kingdom.
When she rode her pony over to the Wegg farm next day Ethel's bright face was wreathed with smiles. She told her girl friends that she and Joe had had a "good talk" together, and understood each other better than ever before.
"Yes, he does," agreed Rose, "but now, just for a moment, frown, and then he doesn't SEEM to smile." It was an odd sight, the two merry little faces puckered into an attempt at a frown, and the old portrait looking down at them, as if in surprise that their smiles had vanished. "Now, let's both smile together!" cried Rose.
Only that posterity shall grow old-fashioned too, while we, like antiquity, shall have enjoyed that which never grows old the sunshine and the stars, love and friendship, the smiles of little children, and the freshness of flowers, aspiration and achievement, thought and worship, struggle and self-sacrifice.
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