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It was to Stair she referred, but the accompanying stamp of the little foot might possibly have raised doubts as to the correctness of her application, had any been there to see. Stair Garland slept little that night.
The Stamp Act unnecessary and uncalled for, had given the people cause to ponder over their real relations to the Crown; and out of the discussion that had taken place arose a spirit of independence that grew and thrived and spread day by day. In short, the repeal of the Stamp Act gave the people of the Colonies only momentary satisfaction.
Jefferson, presiding over the Senate while these measures, so obnoxious to him, were being passed, deprived of even the pleasure of casting an occasional deciding vote by the overwhelming Federal majority, quietly bided his time until this madness should die out. "War, land tax and stamp tax," said he, "are sedatives which must calm its ardour."
Nor would it be a sound argument, if it were. If novels contain no evil within themselves, or have no evil tendency, the mere circumstance of the subject, names or characters being feigned, will not stamp them as censurable. Such fiction will not be like the fiction of the drama, where men act and personate characters that are not their own.
Your cousin, my dear, is a character of another stamp altogether; and if, as I hear everybody say, he is really to be married to that Welsh girl, I think you will agree with me that she has got a prize such as falls to the lot of few." Mr. Lumley was by this time out of breath; but I could not have answered him to save my life.
She deigned not a glance at Professor Young after the deputy had gone, and measured the oilcloth-covered floor restlessly with the stamp, stamp, stamp of the big boots. Professor Young's presence was no more to her than the small insects which scurried from the edge of the floor covering into the light and then back into their hiding places, afraid of the human giants which loomed up before them.
Gunning's original motive in buying the mare had been, he had during this interview yielded to treatment and followed a prepared path. That night, in the domestic circle, he went so far as to lay the matter before Mrs. Brennan. "He picked out a mare that was as poor as a raven though she's a good enough stamp if she was in condition and tells me to buy her.
"Oh, come now, lean on that old thing! Why she couldn't support a postage stamp standing edgewise, as the man says in the play. Do you suppose I don't know how you have to look out for her and do everything? She's not a bit of use." "Yes; but you and I have got to be polite to her, Philly. We mustn't forget that." "Oh, I'll be polite enough, if she will just leave us alone," retorted Phil.
I opened it with great excitement, for the envelope bore the stamp of the firm. At last Colles had deigned to answer. Inside was a sheet of the firm's notepaper, with the signature of Colles across the top. Below some one had pencilled these five words: 'The Blesbok are changing ground.
He spent much time in gratuitous drawing and painting for presents to his friends. It is probable that his death was hastened by his incessant work, to meet the demands made upon him for money. Washington Irving saw him a few days before his death, and relates that 'he seemed uneasy and restless, his eyes were wandering, he was as pale as marble, the stamp of death seemed on him.
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