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In intellectual activity, and in readiness to admit improvements, the superiority was then, as it has ever since been, on the side of the less ancient and splendid institution.
The day following we marched to the square space surrounding the cathedral, and I inspected the newly-formed units of the army. Splendid men with good physique, but slow and stilted in movement.
"Well, well," said Mackenzie. "He iss a quare man at times, and does quare things." "He is not," said Kalman hotly. "He is just a splendid man." Mackenzie gazed in mild surprise at the angry face. "Hoot! toot!" he said. "Who was denyin' ye? He iss all that, but he iss mighty quare, as you will find out. But come away and we will get the horses. It iss a peety you cannot do nothing."
Then, neither hunger, nor thirst, nor fatigue, nor deferred hope, nor monotonous disappointment, nor leaden-footed lapse of time can conquer the hunter's patience or weaken the joy of his quest or cool the splendid rage of his desire.
My eyes turned to the guard, our own soldiers, fine, manly fellows, who fairly represented the personnel of our own splendid army. It made me indignant that one of them should suffer at the hands of such vermin or rather at the hands of the religious manipulators who stood in safety behind their ignorant degraded slaves.
As in life, those objects which we have not, but of which we think we stand in need, are ever present to our fancy, so in these thirsty soils the mere appearance of that water, of which the reality would be so grateful, is frequently known to mock the sight of man. From a sand hill, not very far from the coast, was seen a splendid view of a noble lake, dotted about with many beautiful islands.
Miss Field, too, although she was very pale to-day, looked "simply gorgeous," as Isabelle expressed it, when she saw them off in the car, although Harriet's gown was not new, and the little flowered hat she had crushed down upon her splendid hair had been Isabelle's own a season ago.
All the fellows 'round said it was jist nip an' tuck for about a minit whether he'd go in himself or not!" "It was simply splendid of him!" cried the minister warmly. "I shall never be able to thank him." Mrs. McNabb left the room for a few minutes and her son became confidential.
He and the Troubles were not acquainted; they were never in the room at the same time. Morry's admiration of this small bepatched, befreckled, besmiled being had begun with his legs, which was not strange, they were such puffectly straight, limber, splendid legs and could go my! Legs like that were great!
The mother and the daughter are put to bed nine days apart. Caroline's first child is a pale, cadaverous little girl that will not live. Her mother's last child is a splendid boy, weighing twelve pounds, with two teeth and luxuriant hair. For sixteen years you have desired a son. This conjugal annoyance is the only one that makes you beside yourself with joy.
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