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Out through each line the General passed, placing the flags and solemnly saluting, till eighty graves had been decorated and there was only one left; but there was no flag for the eighty-first grave! Somehow, although they thought they had brought several more than were needed, they were one short.
Now, I made use of them in a way that was for the advantage of many persons. I thought it right to aim at doing good to the greatest number." "My son," said Mr. Franklin, solemnly, "so far as it was in your power, you have done a greater harm to the public, than to the owner of the stones." "How can that be, father?" asked Ben.
The lord could in this way control the choice of the prelates, for in order to become a real bishop or abbot one had not only to be elected, he had also to be solemnly "invested" with the appropriate powers of a bishop or abbot and with his lands.
"Well, how have you been getting on?" said Bickley. "I should like some tea, also anything there is to eat." We supplied him with these necessaries, and after a while he said slowly and solemnly: "I cannot help thinking of a childish story which Bickley told or invented one night at your house at home.
The landlords politely demanded our journey-certificate, solemnly inserted the hour of our arrival and departure, and confirmed the important fact of our remaining exactly the same number of travelers as at the beginning of our journey.
As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing. How lovely that thing you are playing is!
That was the beginning of Old Chester's knowledge of the Roberts family. A little later Perryville came to know them, too: the Rev. John Fenn, pastor of the Perryville Presbyterian Church, got off his big, raw-boned Kentucky horse at the same little white gate in the brick wall at which Goliath had stopped, and walked solemnly not noticing the apple blossoms up to the porch.
"If we don't stop you, there won't be one of us that doesn't know ALL about it," said John, pretending to be discouraged by the attitude of his friend. "I suppose we'll have to have it," he added solemnly, "so the sooner we get it out of the way the better. Tell us and have it over with."
"It gives me great pleasure to view your countenances again, Cadets Corbett, Manning, and Astro," he said solemnly, nodding to each one. Astro twisted his face into a grimace. "What'd he say, Roger?" "He's happy to see you," Roger translated. "Well, in that case," beamed Astro, "I'm happy to see you too, Alfie!" "What's the latest space dope around the Academy, Alfie?" asked Tom.
She thrilled at the words. "Darling!" Mortimer fondled her hand. "I was just coming back to tell you that I loved you still. I was going to suggest that you took lessons from some good professional. And I found you gone!" "I wasn't worthy of you, Mortimer!" "My angel!" He pressed his lips to her hair, and spoke solemnly. "All this has taught me a lesson, dearest.
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