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His example was ever in evidence, by word and action, that only by assidious effort could young men hope to succeed in the battle of life. Mr. Gibbons was competent and had large patronage. We remained with him until we reached our majority. During a religious revival we both became converted and joined the Presbyterian Church.
It is nature! ... Oh, my Phranza, what thinkest thou the false monk is carrying under his hood?" "Some egg of treason, I doubt not." "Having driven His Serenity, the pious and venerable Gregory, into exile, he aspires to succeed him." "The hypocrite! the impostor! the perjured! He, Patriarch!" cried Phranza, with upraised eyes. "And from whose hands thinkest thou he dreams of deriving the honor?"
The "lass o' Richmond Hill" was no fairer than the happy woman who had seen Major Hardwicke depart for a long conference with that all powerful sprite of the magic pen, Frank Halton, who was now busied in launching his creation, Prince Djiddin. "A single word at the 'F. O. will legalize our useful myth, 'Prince Djiddin, and I hope that Hardwicke and Murray will succeed.
He hoped the attorney might not succeed in discovering Jim Dutton's whereabouts. At all events, he had been beforehand, and taken measures to quiet that person's dangerous resentment.
"He is welcome," the man who appeared to be the leader of the party replied, "and may he succeed in his object; but," he continued bitterly, "I fear that the chance is a small one. The Norman foot is on our necks, and most of those who should be our leaders have basely accepted the position of vassals to the English king.
But everything here is so pure and unworldly that I think we manage to show our boys what is the highest. We fail at times, but on the whole we succeed." He looked so kind, so sympathetic, this old man, that Gordon felt bound to pour out his feelings to him.
It seems probable that people who, when they think, see a mental picture of the subject of their thoughts, people who are good 'visualisers, are likely to succeed best with the crystal, some of them can 'visualise' purposely, in the crystal, while others cannot.
"I suppose long ago he has started out on his wonderful mission. I keep thinking of him travelling on and on through the desert, and I pray he may be safe, and succeed in finding the Lost Oasis he believes in. He told me in Algiers that to find it would crown his life." "He hadn't started when I left Touggourt," Max said rather dryly. "What he was still there? Then my father must have seen him.
Ships and boats made haste to get out of the bay, but did not succeed till four hundred seamen and seven hundred soldiers had fallen. During many days the waves continued to throw up pierced and shattered corpses on the beach of Brittany. The battery from which Talmash received his wound is called, to this day, the Englishman's Death.
Though he had never loved the young man, and, as he went on with his investigations, became aware that the whole property would go to the creditors should he succeed in proving that Mountjoy was the heir, yet for the sake of abstract honesty he was most anxious that it should be so.
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