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Why, out of millions, should it picture me The most unlikely and present my form To the king's memory? Was this but chance? Perhaps 'twas something more! what else is chance But the rude stone which from the sculptor's hand Receives its life? Chance comes from Providence, And man must mould it to his own designs.
The remainder of the group, brown-faced peasants, wore smock-frocks embroidered on the shoulders with hearts and diamonds, and were girt round their middle with a strap, another being worn round the right wrist. 'And have you seen the steward, Mr. Springrove? said the clerk. 'Just a glimpse of him; but 'twas just enough to show me that he's not here for long. 'Why mid that be?
"At what time did you lock the rooms?" "A few minutes after ten, sir. I felt kind of uneasy, because it was Mr. Mainwaring's orders that the rooms be shut at nine; so soon as 'twas ten o'clock I went around outside, and, seeing no light in her parlor, I went in and locked the hall and then went up-stairs to lock the rooms there." "Did you see any strangers about the place at that time?"
Neither did he see Lilias; for little Lily was now a close prisoner with doctors, in full uniform, with shouldered canes, mounting guard at the doors. 'Twas a hard winter, and she needed care and nursing. And Devereux chafed and fretted; and, in truth, 'twas hard to bear this spite of fortune to be so near, and yet so far quite out of sight and hearing.
He had never, he said, met so much suffering joined to such perfect beauty and so clear a mind. 'Twas thus he spoke of the signora coming home in the archdeacon's carriage; and Eleanor by no means liked to hear the praise.
If I'd hung on I might have got more for it. Looks to me as if Raish's crowd, whoever they are, are mighty anxious to buy. And the Denboro Trust Company folks might bid against 'em if 'twas necessary. They've got too much of that stock to let themselves be froze out. Humph!... Humph! I ain't sure as I did right." "But but you did get a profit, Captain Hallett. The profit you ah expected." "Humph!
'Well, though, to speak the truth, I have a good many faults, some people will praise me, I suppose. 'Twas praise? 'It was. 'Well, I am not much at farming, and I am not much in company, and I am not much at figures, but perhaps I must own, since it is forced upon me, that I can show as fine a soldier's figure on the Esplanade as any man of the cavalry.
Jed was stirring his chowder. "Eh?" he said, absently. "Where? Oh, 'twas in the er 'Prince and the Pauper, you know. Mark Twain wrote it." "That's so; I remember now. So you've read 'The Prince and the Pauper'?" "Um-hm. Read about everything Mark Twain ever wrote, I shouldn't wonder." "Do you read a good deal?" "Some. . . . There! Now we'll call that chowder done for the second time, I guess.
"But now come in and lie down on the sofa, and rest, while I make you a cup of coffee," said Marian. But the same expression of cunning came again into the poor creature's face, as she said: "In the house? No, no no, no! Fanny has learned something. Fanny knows better than to go under roofs they are traps to catch rabbits! 'Twas in the house the Destroyer found us, and we couldn't get out!
But a short time elapsed before the marriage was solemnised, and such a wedding the world of fashion had not taken part in for years, 'twas said.
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