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Set the jar in an oven, or pot filled with boiling water. Keep the water boiling round the jar till the gooseberries are soft, take them out, mash them with a spoon, and put them into a jelly bag to drain. When all the juice is squeezed out, measure it, and to a pint of juice, allow a pound of loaf-sugar.
"After all, why are you here?" Willoughby took a letter-case from his breast, opened it with deliberation, and shook out from one of its pockets into the palm of his hand a tiny, soiled, white feather. He held it out to Ethne. "I have come to give you this." Ethne did not take it. In fact, she positively shrank from it. "Why?" she asked unsteadily.
Her husband and I don't hit it off, somehow." "Deb, how much have you to live on?" "That's my business, sir." "Not the business of a doting godfather in the absence of nearer male relatives?" "No. His business is only to see that I learn the catechism and present myself to be confirmed; and I've done both." "That all?" "Except to let his doting godchild take care of him when he is ill.
"I'm afraid Nancy's in pretty deep," Dick said. "The money end of it worries me as much as anything." "I wouldn't let that worry me." "She won't take any of mine, you know." "I know she won't. See here, Dick, I wouldn't worry about Nancy's finances. She'll come out all right about money." "What makes you think so?" "I know so.
By the time the king had reached the palace, the multitude who had come to take part in the festival had formed themselves into a procession of interminable length, which wandered on through the straight streets of Babylon towards the royal palace.
I saw one child start to work on a basket, work at it a few minutes, then take up something else, continue a little time, go back to the basket, and finally throw both down for a third object of self-realization. I called the principal's attention to this phenomenon. "How do you get the beautiful results that you exhibit?" I asked.
"On the other hand, her mother and sister, fearing lest she should be withdrawn from the stage, have gone to the king, and obtained, through many tears and entreaties, a decree that if any man shall take the girl, either in marriage or not, without her mother's consent, he shall be put to death like a robber.
Whether the Minister is acquainted with you personally, we have not been able to learn, but that he knows who you are, is certain." "Then I had best call upon him, and arrange for letters to Dr. Hartmann." "That is the best course. His house is near by. Take a cab at once, go to him, and state your errand. You will have no difficulty, I feel sure."
By changes of the state of life are meant changes of quality as to the things appertaining to the understanding, and as to those appertaining to the will, 184. The changes which take place in man's internal principles are more perfectly continuous than those which take place in his external principles, 185.
Don't you think we should find it very heavy if we tried to get it back again?" "I'm not going to ask you to be a Sir Charles Grandison, Mr Eames. But never mind all that now. Do you know that that girl has absolutely had her first sitting for the picture?" "Has she, indeed?" "She has. You may take my word for it. I know it as a fact. What a fool that young man is!" "Which young man?"
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