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"I take my stand on fact, not theory," stoutly maintained Sir Charles, "and I am satisfied I am right." "But if that was not Ripaldi, who was it? Who would wish to masquerade in his dress and character, to make entries of that sort, as if under his hand?" "Some one determined to divert suspicion from himself to others " "But stay does he not plainly confess his own guilt?"

Here! he called, cheerfully, 'Jack Horn, you pull a good oar! Now, then, are we ready? 'All ready, yes, sir! The boat was launched, not without great difficulty, in the face of such a sea. The men stoutly took their oars, casting a look forward at the rocks, then at the quay, and on the face of their young steersman.

"This continually increasing expansive force must at length have overcome the resistance opposed by the tenacity and weight of the overlying consolidated strata. The Neptunists stoutly contended for the aqueous origin of volcanic as of other mountains.

His father went on, "Women keep the romantic feeling longer than men; it dies out of us very soon perhaps too soon." "You think I couldn't have come to time?" asked Dan. "Well, as it's turned out, I won't have to." "No man can be all a woman wishes him to be," said his father. "It's better for the disappointment to come before it's too late." "I was to blame," said Dan stoutly.

He has spent many days on it, and we all have worked hard. It ought to be a success." "Perfesser allers makes things work," declared Washington stoutly. "That's a good way to feel about it, anyway," observed Mark. "Well, we'll soon know." The three hurried to the shed which they could see as they rounded a turn of the path through the wood.

She was absolutely frightened, and rushed out of the room." "Well, the doctor arrived about two o'clock in the morning, and he stayed until early morning; and now the whole school knows, and what is to be done is more than I can tell. The doctor wants us all to leave the house." "I shan't go," said Rosamund stoutly. "What do you mean, Rose? You mustn't think of yourself at a moment like this."

It seemed that Bert Taylor, in his enthusiasm, had, out of his own pocket, hired extra men who appeared at the critical moment to relieve the tired men at the brakes; and it was under their fresh impetus that the Monumental had so triumphantly "sucked." Now Bert Taylor was freely blamed. The regular men stoutly maintained that if they had been left alone this would never have happened.

As he put spurs to his horse Edgar had dropped his vizor down again, for he wanted to strike now, and not to have to defend himself. With crushing blows he hewed his way through his opponents. The other two English knights kept close, and the men-at-arms fought as stoutly as their masters, until the party emerged from among their assailants.

Jonas, in behalf of the crew of the Casket, stoutly but respectfully denied the correctness of the statement, so far as himself or his shipmates were concerned, and was about making an explanation, which must have been satisfactory, when he was interrupted by the excited Briton, who not only gave him the lie direct, but went so far as to define, in coarse and profane language, the particular character of the lie.

Nor is there any use in loudly asserting the inerrancy of these books, with vehement denunciations of all who call it in question, and then in a breath admitting that there may be some errors and discrepancies and interpolations. Perfection is perfection. To stoutly affirm that a thing is perfect, and then admit that it may be in some respects imperfect, is an insensate procedure.