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Myrtle no sooner saw the little accident of which her rural friend was the victim than she left her place in the dance with a simple courage which did her credit. "I want to speak to you a minute," she said. "Come into this alcove."
I should dislike to believe all that is said about each other by the two factions of my Baptist brethren now struggling for the control of Baylor. According to Carroll, Dr. Burleson, president emeritus, ought to be in the penitentiary; according to Burleson, Carroll is not a fit associate for a brindle cow. "Speak disrespectfully of Baylor and die!"
And so lovely she appeared that their eyes continually returned, and rested admiringly on her, till at last the blushing girl remonstrated: "You all keep looking at me so that I feel as if I were the dessert, and you were going to eat me up pretty soon." "I speak for the biggest bite," cried Mr.
"A worthy name, and, as I think, of Cornish lineage; for what says the south proverb 'By Pol, Tre, and Pen, You may know the Cornish men. Shall I say the worthy Master Tressilian of Cornwall?" "Say no more than I have given you warrant for, mine host, and so shall you be sure you speak no more than is true.
But Alice answered anxiously: "You understand it's nothing I have done that is wrong, nothing I'm ashamed of?" "Of course," he assured her. "Let's drop it. We'll never speak of it again." "I want to speak of it. It's something strange in my thoughts, dear, or or my soul," she went on timidly, "something that's different and that frightens me especially at night."
It's not to be forgotten, or forgiven either, by me or many another; but I canna tell of our down-casting just as a piece of London news. As long as I live, our rejection of that day will abide in my heart; and as long as I live I shall curse them as so cruelly refused to hear us; but I'll not speak of it no* more."
Very unwillingly yet; for Afy, who would have told lies by the bushel unsworn, did look upon an oath as a serious matter, and felt herself compelled to speak the truth when examined under it. "How did you become acquainted with a gentleman you often saw in those days Captain Thorn?" "There," uttered the dismayed Afy. "You are beginning already.
Uncle Bräsig now involved himself in such a labyrinth of words in his desire to speak grandly as befitted his company, that he would never have extricated himself if the squire had not come to the rescue. Looking more attentively at Hawermann he said: "You want *? but," he interrupted himself, "I ought to know you. Wait a moment.
"The old chap's taken Meeking's job out of his hands. Good thing this is a coroner's court if a judge said as much as Seagrave's saying to an assize jury, Gad! Wellesley would hang! Look at these jurymen! They're half dead-certain that Wellesley's guilty already!" "Well?" muttered Brent. "I'm not so far off that stage myself. Why didn't he speak out, and be done with it.
Though the people of the free states affect to disbelieve the cruelties perpetrated upon the slaves, yet slaveholders believe each other guilty of them, and speak of them with the utmost freedom. If slaveholders disbelieve any statement of cruelty inflicted upon a slave, it is not on account of its enormity.
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