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There is no comfort so great as a really useful sympathizing friend in times of trouble; yet if relatives come and require rooms, if you find you are a restraint and can be of no use, it is the truest kindness to shorten your visit, and leave the mourners free to comfort each other.
The door had slammed. Mr. Hollister had not called for the tie she was pressing for him in the kitchen 'Stashie told herself fiercely that "killing wud be too good for her, makin' trouble like the divil's own!" She listened anxious for Lydia's answer. "Daddy's coming back to us as soon as his business is done," said Paul's wife.
For they, whom we have compelled, brood a secret hatred against us, believing we have done them wrong; but those whom we have taken the trouble to persuade continue our friends, believing we have done them a kindness.
But I feel that to go through with it requires more strength of body and mind than I have: were you three or four years older; you should share in my trouble, and I would have taken you into my office; but I hope you will employ these three or four years so well as to make yourself capable of being of use to me, if I should continue in it so long.
Ten thousand bushmen with rifles wouldn't have much trouble with the Government and the Government wouldn't have much trouble with ten thousand bushmen without rifles. Besides, we're trying to do things peacefully and I don't see why we shouldn't win this round as things stand and get votes soon into the bargain!" "But if there is trouble, Ned?" she persisted. "Supposing it does start?"
"You do not seem to understand, my good woman, that I want to be here myself and have my people here. I want the whole house." "My lady shall have it she is welcome nobody shall find Juanita trouble them," the black woman said with great sweetness. "What will you do with yourself?" "A little place be enough for me, my lady. My spirit lives in a large home." Mrs. Randolph turned impatiently away.
Small women were in need of protection; pale women were delicate; clever women were masculine the greatest of all crimes. George liked the sort of woman who said to him: "Mr. Carruthers, you who know everything " It was apt, of course, to lead you into a lot of trouble, but that was one of the necessary results of being a man and having a superior intellect. June wasn't like that.
I was rather adroit, and careful not to bring prominently into sight anything of a literary kind which could become a stone of stumbling. But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self-respect.
It maybe ain't right for me to think of meeting you again; but it's right this once." She didn't answer at all. He come to what seemed to trouble him. "Is it the money?" he says again. "What's money if you've got nothing else?" "Not much," says she; "not very much." "I've not coveted it," says he. "It's another commandment I've broke. I've coveted that which was my neighbor's.
As they were still four miles from their own camp and as the porters were about exhausted from carrying the lion, they decided to go in there, skin the lion and rest for a while. There was some trouble about this, as the Masai feared that the scent of the dead lion would scare their cattle.
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