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"Which is best," asked this unconscious philosopher, "to find out the way to be happy for yourself, or to let other people try if they can find it out for you?" From that moment Mr. Brock permitted his pupil's character to grow at its own rate of development, and Allan went on uninterruptedly with the work of his yacht.

"Well, I do now. You didn't use to try to get money out of me." "Look here, Jasper! I am poor, but I don't want you to talk to me as you are doing." "Indeed!" sneered Jasper. "And I won't have it," said Carton firmly. "Listen to me, and I will propose a plan that will help us both." "What is it?"

"I must find life," exclaimed Gaston, "and my fortune at the mines, I hope. I am not a bad fellow, Father. You can easily guess all the things I do. I have never, to my knowledge, harmed any one. I didn't even try to kill my adversary in an affair of honor. I gave him a mere flesh-wound, and by this time he must be quite recovered. He was my friend. But as he came between me "

'And what are you going to be, air? inquired another of the men, turning to Gerald, who was sitting by with a thoughtful face. 'I'm going into the army, I think, answered Gerald; 'but I don't know if I can pass the exams. They're very difficult, but I'm going to try. 'Here are the gentlemen coming back again, said Jim.

And some were drowned so long ago, that their bleached arms start out from the middle of the current, and seem to try to grasp the boat, and drag it under water.

"It's preposterous and it's parallel." "Hubert did not try to entrap you into doing what was wrong." "We need not discuss that, for it is not the point. "You are positively insulting!" cried Henriette, rising.

"That means something more than six hours for us to play hide and seek here on the island, doesn't it?" he remarked; but Thad saw with relief that Smithy was certainly showing less signs of alarm than he had expected, under the best conditions. "Well, if you were only as good a swimmer as you hope to be one of these days, Smithy," he remarked, pleasantly, "we might try for the shore.

It would be endless to try and tell all the thoughts and emotions, both literary and artistic, suggested by the contemplation of these figures and by the groups representing the Ancestors of Christ.

I've forgotten " "Try try and remember. It was the name of a town, wasn't it?" "Yes a name like Chateau " "Chateaubriant? Chateau-Thierry? "No-no " "Chateauroux?" "Yes, that was it Chateauroux " Beautrelet did not wait for her to complete her sentence.

"Yes; but the promise of nomination, without the post itself, is like a purse with no money in it." "Quite true," Manicamp replied a second time. "Let us try for the post, then," the candidate had persisted. "My dear fellow," sighed Manicamp, "an appointment in his royal highness's household is one of the gravest difficulties of our position." "Oh! oh!"