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During this conversation they had reached the house, and Miss Brandt complained that something was yet pricking her ankle. They went into Miss Hjelm's room, and here a thorn was discovered and taken out. "How pretty and cosy this room really is!" said Miss Brandt, looking around. "In a situation like this one can surely live in the country summer and winter.
"That is true," said Rosamond, "perfectly true in general; but surely you will allow that there may be cases in which it would be difficult to adhere to the letter as well as to the spirit of this excellent rule. Have you never felt can't you imagine this?" "I can well imagine it," said Caroline; "fortunately, I have never felt it.
"Ah, a man can fight, can't he?" "Oh, but so can a girl. I'm fighting too." "I've no one to fight for." Daisy turned quickly towards her: there were tears in her eyes. Surely she was a sorry comforter: perhaps she had come as much seeking as to bring comfort. "You don't look very happy," remarked Daisy. "Don't talk about me, Daisy. It will never make the least difference between you and me.
Let us build wisely, let us build surely, let us build faithfully, let us build, not for the moment, but for future years, seeking to establish here below what we hope to find above a house of many mansions, where there shall be room for all.
"Not all wasted work, surely?" "They wouldn't allow it for the world. He's that gay afore me, an' Phoebe keeps a stiff upper lip, tu; but I go up unexpected now an' again an' pop in unawares an' sees the truth. You with your letter or message aforehand, doan't find out nothing, an' won't." "He'm out o' luck, I allow. What's the exact reason?" I knaw you set gert store 'pon the Word.
His wounds were dressed by his mother; his confession was whispered to the friendly priest who had heard and absolved the follies of his youth; his last sigh was breathed upon the lips of the lady of his love. Surely there is no sword like that which is beaten out of a ploughshare.
He didn't turn out so well! You can't still bear me malice over that convict in Sing Sing. 'For his sake, poor fellow, I might. 'Coming along I said to myself, "She CAN score off me badly, but surely she doesn't want to so much as all that." Besides, I really only took your leavings, you know. You threw poor Fred Prendergast over.
To me, I confess, it is painful to see the scholar and the world assume so often a hostile attitude, and set each other at defiance. Surely, it is a characteristic trait of a great and liberal mind, that it recognises humanity in all its forms and conditions.
They must not know they are observed. Could we creep closer up to them? Nay, the plain is so silent: they would hear us; and so barren: they would surely see us. Here, under cover of this rock, we can crouch and watch them.... We discern now more clearly those three expectants. One of them has a cloak of faded blue; it is fluttering in the wind. Women or men are they?
"Do you suppose I'd give that coxcomb the triumph of thinking I want to make up to him?" "No, no, of course not." Klaus shrugged his shoulders and walked on, whistling. "Or that I want to make trouble for that fine family of his? No, I may find a way to take it out of him some day, but it won't be that way." "Well, but, damn it, man! you can surely stand hearing what people say about him."
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