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"Eh! wasna she a cankered fairy?" said Norman, taking Rosie's fair face between his hands. "Graeme had enough ado with you, I can tell you." "And with you, too. Never heed him, Rosie," said Graeme, smiling at her darling. "I used to admire Graeme's patience on the `Steadfast'," said Harry. "I did that before the days of the `Steadfast," said Arthur. Rosie pouted her pretty lips.
"It is according to one's nature; if one is born a steadfast gentleman, one is more likely to continue than if one is a farceur prince or no but it depends upon the object of one's love whether he or she can hold one or not.
"The diamonds?" queried Nick, tossing several of them back upon the table. "Certainly. What else?" "They are all right, Mr. Venner." "I thought you would say so." "Yes, indeed. They are all right for what they are!" "For what they are?" "Precisely." "What do you mean by that?" "You know what I mean." "I do?" snarled Venner, inquiringly, with his frowning eyes shrinking from Nick's steadfast gaze.
The sextants had been returned to their cases in the cabin, and Harry and his chum, Dickey Bass, finding it very hot, seated themselves in the shade by the side of a gun, of which the Steadfast carried eight, besides a good supply of muskets and cutlasses and other weapons; for, having to visit regions inhabited by fierce and savage tribes, she was well armed.
In it he asks to be made impartial in his inquiry after truth, ready always to receive it in love, to practise it in his life, and to continue steadfast in it to the end.
'But you never can know me, Captain Gills, replied Mr Toots, steadfast to his point, 'if you don't give me the pleasure of your acquaintance. The Captain seemed struck by the originality and power of this remark, and looked at Mr Toots as if he thought there was a great deal more in him than he had expected. 'Well said, my lad, observed the Captain, nodding his head thoughtfully; 'and true.
Kings, owners, and all who claim rule and decisions in the world's affairs, must either show themselves clearly the fellow-servants of the believer or become the objects of his steadfast antagonism. It is here that those who explain this modern religiosity will seem most arbitrary to the inquirer.
They looked much shabbier than the troops of a year ago, their coats were worn and soiled, and their feathers almost stumps, but they made up for their poverty by swagger and noise, and Steadfast was thankful that it was unlikely that any of them should find the way to his little valley with what they called requisitions for the King's service, but which meant what he knew too well.
And, above all, there must be the slow steadfast growth of some replacing faith, which shall retain all the elements of moral beauty that once gave light to the old belief that has disappeared, and must still possess a living force in the new.
A pirate's tears are drops of blood! I will avenge you, my murdered family, on mankind, on the whole world. Earth, grant me no more rest. Change the wine-cup to wormwood ere it reaches my lips, and every throb of my heart to hate. I had a single joy, my soul a single steadfast idea, which came to my remembrance whenever any one sued to me for mercy, and I granted it. That was joy.
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