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But the voice of the Lord commanded him to sacrifice Isaac upon an altar; and Abraham trusted the Lord and laid his son upon the altar, in obedience to God's commands. Now here is another servant of the Most High and a friend of God. I refer to President Cannon, whose birthday we are celebrating.
"If they start in to to they might I wish you'd let me get in front," he begged, all at once. "I thought you thought better of me," said Drake. "Excuse me," said the man. Then presently: "I don't see how anybody could 'a' told he'd smuggle whiskey that way. "The old man's got no use for opinions," said Drake. "He goes on results. He trusted me with this job, and we're going to have results now."
So far as the French Revolution modified his ideas, it made them more Conservative than ever, and his object in preaching the conciliation of Catholics was to deter them from Revolutionary methods. * English in Ireland, ii. 214, 215. But Burke, like Grattan, was an Irishman, and therefore not to be trusted.
Surely he could curb his impatience until she was of age and mistress of her own hand! Surely he trusted her! She sighed as this thought crossed her mind, and nearly fell up against a dark figure which detached itself from among the trees. "Master Lambert!" she said, uttering a little cry of surprise, pressing her hand against her heart which was palpitating with emotion.
But why he got into the girl's room is more than I know. However, if he is dead, and Manuel a prisoner, it gives us a fair chance, sir. It leaves those fellows amidships without a leader. A dozen good men on deck might do the business." "But are there a dozen aboard to be trusted?" He hesitated, running the names over in his mind, evidently weighing each one carefully. "Well, yes sir.
'Hush, I am a detective. We expect that an officer will break out here to-night. I am waiting to catch him. Reason scornful this time replied: 'Surely a Transvaal detective would speak Dutch. Trust to the shadow. So I trusted, and after a spell another man came out of the house, lighted a cigar, and both he and the other walked off together.
It is a proverb that the eye of a master is more to be trusted than that of a deputy: and, in an age of corruption and peculation, a department on which a sovereign, even of very slender capacity, bestows close personal attention is likely to be comparatively free from abuses.
She prayed daily to be delivered from "inordinate and sinful affections," but in this case prayer seemed of little use; for the more she prayed the more she loved and trusted him. It was a mystery she could not make out.
'And what if I have? he snapped. 'Am I not a man grown that I am not to Again no time for more than a broken sentence. 'Will you tell us? demanded Howard. 'In due time, came the cool rejoinder. 'When I am ready. I should have told you to-night, had you trusted to me. Now I shall not tell you a word about it until to-morrow. They knew that Sanchia was going for her horse.
"I would suggest that you introduce my aide, who may be trusted, at the hotel and that he be instructed to bring you any message. By that means, Señor Blanco, or his news, can follow you directly to the Palace and it does not become necessary to take others into your confidence."
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