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Child, we are both sufferers; but time heals most things, and we must learn to wait and be patient. Will you ever marry, Vera?" "I don't know. Perhaps I may be obliged to. It might be better for me. I cannot say. Don't speak of it. Why, is there nothing else for a woman to do but to marry? John, it must be late. Ought you not to go back to to your mother's?"
"Who is the President of the United States?" "Mr. Wils'." "Who is the Vice-President?" "Mr. Marsh'." "Could you be President?" "No." "Why?" "Mister, you 'scuse, please. I vera busy worka da mine." During the cross-examination of a young physician in a lawsuit, the plaintiff's lawyer made disagreeable remarks about the witness's youth and inexperience.
It is not their way. They would not let the Rotherwoods have Mysie to bring up with Phyllis, and and Val is just the being that needs a mother's eye over her. But I really and honestly think that your Vera may quite safely be put under Adeline's care, and that she is likely to be all the better for it."
But I should like to help you, since you say yourself you rely on me for a service. I thank you for holding me worthy of that. You stand so high above me; I always feel that you stand so high, Vera Vassilievna." "My poor Ivan Ivanovich, I have fallen from those heights, and no human power can reinstate me," she said, as she led him to the edge of the precipice.
He raised her in his arms, and like a wild animal carrying off his prey, ran with her back to the arbour. God forgive her for having turned back. Raisky lay on the grass at the top of the cliff for a long time in gloomy meditation, groaning over the penalty he must pay for his generosity, suffering alike for himself and Vera. "Perhaps she is laughing at my folly, down there with him.
Suddenly Vera spoke, and it was in a voice so stern that it was to Nina a new voice, as though she had suddenly to deal with some new figure whom she had never seen before. "I can't discuss that with you, Nina. You can't marry because, as you say, he doesn't care for you in that way. Also if he did it would be a very unhappy marriage. You would soon despise him.
We may in vain apply to the constitutional Government at Vera Cruz, although it is well disposed to do us justice, for adequate redress.
He was sent to the United States on the first steamer that left Vera Cruz after the landing was effected, and died in New Orleans within twenty-four hours after his arrival at that place. Thus, the army and the country lost the services of one of the best officers of the U. S. Corps of Military Engineers; and the engineer company lost their trained Captain.
'Then why did you tell me just now you hadn't taken it? Stephen demanded crossly. 'I didn't feel well enough to argue with you then, Vera replied. 'You've recovered precious quick, retorted Stephen with grimness. Stephen knew when he was beaten. She went to the Hockey dance, though.
In more peaceful times she would again confide the details of her life to Natalie Ivanovna as before; but in a crisis she went to Tatiana Markovna, sent for Tushin, or sought help from her cousin Boris. Now she put the letters in her pocket, found her aunt, and sat down beside her. "What has happened, Vera? You are upset." "Not upset, but worried. I have received letters, from there."
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