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Had not the stout hearts of the Antwerp burghers proved a stronger defence to Brabant liberties than the "joyous entry" on the dread day of the "French fury," it would have fared ill then and for ever with the cause of freedom and religion in the Netherlands. The King of France was a Papist, a Jesuit. He was incapable of keeping his pledges.
Agatha knew by experience that though a weak woman cannot understand why her stronger sister should wish to lean upon her, she may triumph in the fact without understanding it, and give chaff instead of consolation. Agatha wanted to be understood and not to be chaffed. Finding herself unable to satisfy both these conditions, she resolved to do without sympathy and to hold her tongue.
In no way should the North meddle with the slavery question, on penalty of secession; and the sooner this was understood the better. "We are," said he, "relatively stronger than we shall be hereafter, politically and morally." The great fight arose in 1849. The people in the Northwestern territories had been encouraged to form governments, and had already tasted the delights of self-rule.
Truffles and morels may be added, or artichoke bottoms. RUMP SOUP. Two or three rumps of beef will make a stronger soup, and of a far more nourishing quality, than a larger quantity of meat without them. It may be made like gravy soup, and thickened and flavoured in any way that is most approved.
But for this precaution, which, it will be remembered, the abbe had made to Edmond, the misfortune would have been still greater, for their attempt to escape would have been detected, and they would undoubtedly have been separated. Thus a new, a stronger, and more inexorable barrier was interposed to cut off the realization of their hopes.
As mother, she was impatient to ask him where he had learned to speak English, and to inquire if he knew her boy. The nurse conquered. The patient drank the water and was allowed to go to sleep again undisturbed. In time, though, he was stronger, and then, one day, the mother's questions were asked for the hundredth time; and the last. Yes, the prisoner patient knew just such a man.
It was all to no purpose the blue blaze flickered upward as before each instant becoming stronger, as the brandy itself grew hotter and more of the spirit caught the fire. It appeared that the cook had made several journeys back and forward from the store-room to the deck, before confessing to what had occurred, or warning any one of the peril in which the vessel was placed.
Then by an inspiration she knew that the boy meant cream milk with the cream on. A sob rose unannounced in Gloria's throat as she looked again at the mite in the cart who would walk when his legs were stronger. "Who is the doctor-woman?" she asked; but as she asked the question she knew the answer and said, "Is she the District Nurse?" "Yes, she is. She's good to my mother, and Hunkie's the baby.
His averted face denoting a stronger feeling than disappointment, though the power of natural sympathy was so strong as to draw evidences of its force from the eyes of all the others present.
"It's stronger than we are stronger than anything else in the world," she said. "But you're not sorry?" I asked. "I don't want to think I don't care," she replied. "I only know that I love you. I wonder if you will ever know how much!" The moments lengthened into hours, and she gently reminded me that it was late. The lights in the little farmhouses near by had long been extinguished.
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