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I sent him Tuke's "Principles," and he told me yesterday he was attentively studying it. My dear M.Y. told me it had been given her to believe we were in our right place, and that we were called by religious intercourse to bear witness for our Lord and Master and his good cause.
"Something very pleasant must have happened to you to-day," said Gussie, looking at him archly, "or else you have been studying a joke-book for our amusement." "Well, I have good reason to be jolly to-night," he replied, changing his seat so as to watch Dexie's face. "I am going to be married! That fact alone ought to make any reasonable man happy, don't you think?"
When the housework got to be such a nightmare and I looked forward to a whole lifetime of it and no improvement; then I just ached for my work and couldn't do it! And then why sometimes dear, I just wanted to run away! Actually! From both of you! you see, I spent five years studying I was a real architect and it did hurt to see it go. And now O now I've got It and You too, darling! And the Baby!
She was striving, and without success, to alter her own uneasy conviction that the prospective visit of Justin Ware was responsible for her novel and engrossing interest in her personal appearance. Persis, studying her reflection in the mirror, directed the point of the scissors toward her throat as if deliberating suicide.
He had never, strangely enough, pictured such a calamity. His father! His uncle! True, other men were injured fighting for France, thousands of them. But surely no harm could come to his family. Those he loved would return when peace came; take up life where they had left it; and the home would once more be united. The boy glanced up to find Henri studying his face sympathetically.
"Love stories," more demurely still, "and poetry, and sometimes history; but not often history love stories and poetry oftenest." The clever old face was studying her with a novel sort of interest. Upon the whole, my lady was not sorry she had sent for Theodora North. "And, of course, being a Downport baby, you have never had a lover. Pamela never had a lover before she came to me." A lover.
As, lantern in hand, I scraped among the moss and beheld the ancient scars of bruises received in many a sullen fall among the marly mountains of the isle scars strangely widened, swollen, half obliterate, and yet distorted like those sometimes found in the bark of very hoary trees, I seemed an antiquary of a geologist, studying the bird-tracks and ciphers upon the exhumed slates trod by incredible creatures whose very ghosts are now defunct.
Therefore I uphold the doctrine that love for young ladies who attend school is not wholly ridiculous else how could those who go on studying until they are as old as the surrounding hills, be ever loved with reason? I am therefore determined to fall deeper still in love, and write more verses, and abolish that old dull scoundrel Coke, and become a sighing, languishing, poetic Lovelace.
They continued perseveringly studying the language of the natives among whom they were to labour, and prayed with and expounded the Scriptures to all on board who would join them. I am writing an account of certain events, and not a journal, so I must suppose the Horn rounded, Chili visited, and Raratonga, where we were to land the missionaries, reached.
Wilkie the painter once paid him a visit there while in Scotland studying the subject of his "Penny Wedding;" and Dugald Stewart found for him the old farm-house with the cradle-chimney, which he introduced in that picture.
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