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Agnes has a great liking for Traddles, and it is capital to see them meet, and to observe the glory of Traddles as he commends the dearest girl in the world to her acquaintance. Still I don't believe it. We have a delightful evening, and are supremely happy; but I don't believe it yet. I can't collect myself. I can't check off my happiness as it takes place.
"That night Marilla takes me in the room where the piano was, while the others were out on the gallery. "'Come here, Rush, says she; 'I want you to see this now. "She unties the rope, and drags off the wagon-sheet.
"She certainly has a great power over gentlemen" Blyth's mother smiled demurely, as if she were sorry to confess it; "but she is exceedingly young, Sir Charles, and every allowance must be made for her." "And by the Lord Harry, she gets it, madam. She takes uncommonly good care of that. But what is the one thing you mentioned that would prevent you from coming back to us with pleasure?"
"We hope you will feel more than ever the absolute necessity laid upon you to procure for yourself and those you love a maintenance, as neither of you can subsist long upon air.... Remember it takes a great many hundred dollars to make and to keep the pot a-boiling. "I wish to see the young lady who has captivated you so much.
"Afraid to do your duty as a critic and as a friend?" "My first duty is to the public my public; not to my friends. Savage Keith Rickman may be a very great poet I think he is but if my public doesn't want to hear about Savage Keith Rickman, I can't insist on their hearing, can I?" "No, Horace, after all you've told me, I don't believe you can." "Mind you, it takes courage, of a sort, to own it."
'I am sure of it! There's no harm in repeating what you have often told me your egoism oppresses you. A woman's influence takes one out of oneself. No man can be a better authority on this than I. For more than eleven years I have worshipped one woman with absolute faithfulness' 'Absolute? interrupted Godwin, bluntly. 'What exception occurs to you?
If, having married three wives belonging to the three other orders, a Brahmana takes a Brahmana wife the very last of all yet shall she be regarded as the first in rank among all the wives, and as deserving of the greatest respect. Indeed, among all the co-wives, she shall be the foremost in consideration.
"Offer some of your compounds, then," suggested the glass-blower, who was making a noose in the rope for his head to go through. "The only thing I can spare," replied the wizard, thoughtfully, "is a Beauty Powder." "What!" cried the glass-blower, throwing down the rope, "have you really such a thing?" "Yes, indeed. Whoever takes the powder will become the most beautiful person in the world."
The green of the masses of jungle on the river banks takes to itself a paler hue than usual, and the yellow of the sandbanks changes its shade from the colour of a cowslip to that of a pale and early primrose. It was on such a white morning as this that Imâm Bakar crossed slowly to meet his fate.
John Stuyvesant Schuyler and Thomas Cathcart Blake loved their wives; and when a man has loved a woman, and that woman his wife, as these two had loved, it seems in a way to disrupt the cosmogony of things. It takes ambition from the brain, and the stamina from the spine; and the days are very, very long, while the nights are yet infinitely longer.
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