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A good education will fit you to maintain yourself, and attain a creditable station in life, which is very important, since you will have to carve your own future." There was no objection to make to all this.
She had her troubles, and was turning them over in her mind, while her husband was thinking of something else quite different. It is, I believe, a thing that often happens. "I am thinking, Flora," he said, "that this would be a grand island to live on far better than Skye, because it has no rocks on it. I would like to haf it for a station.
I do not see why she should not have accepted him, as she had made up her mind to do so. And to him, with his creditors, and in his present position, any certainty in this matter would have made so much difference! At the Paddington station Miss Mackenzie was met by her other lover, Mr Rubb.
I'll have no fine-mouthed, false-natur'd corruption i' my household. If the Reddys choose to breed up that young imp of theirn to drawl fine and to talk smooth above his station let 'em. 'Well, Samson, returned Mrs.
In fact, they were so elated over the great success that had rewarded their daring venture that it seemed just then as if nothing could ever again make them feel blue, or depressed in spirits. In due time the lonely little station was reached. It was then two in the afternoon of that eventful day.
A full-length statue of him, by Bailey, was also erected a few years later, in the noble vestibule of the London and North-Western Station, in Euston Square. A subscription for the purpose was set on foot by the Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which he had been the founder and president.
LOUISA. My face, lady, is as little of my own choice as my station! LADY MILFORD. Perhaps you believe that your beauty will last forever? Poor creature! Whoever put that into your head be he who he may has deceived both you and himself!
The staff captain’s lips formed the words, "Awfully sorry! Good luck!" but his articulation was indistinct, and he went off hurriedly, still murmuring. Carfax stood in the snow, watching him clamber down among the rocks, where an alpinist orderly joined them. Gary presently appeared at the door of the observation station. "Has he gone?" he inquired, without interest. "Yes," said Carfax.
"In that time O'Hara strolled through Lafayette Square and spied two Weary Willies disgracin' one of the benches. In ten minutes more J. Clancy and General De Vega, late candidate for the presidency of Guatemala, was in the station house. The general is badly frightened, and calls upon me to proclaim his distinguishments and rank. "'The man, says I to the police, 'used to be a railroad man.
'I must go and bring the phaeton. And with that he strode from the station, all in a glow of passion and virtue. Esther, whose eyes had come alive and her cheeks flushed during these last words, relapsed in a second into a state of petrifaction.
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