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I know they all want you to marry Lord Lovel, and I know he wants it. I know he is quite in love with you." "Ah; I do not think that. But if he were, it could make no difference. If you had once given your word to another man, would you go back because a lord asked you?" "I don't think I would ever give my word without asking mamma."
It is not so with us. We cannot much distend or contract our purely physical needs. Especially is any oversupply of them mischievous. They have not the reptilian elasticity. Day by day they must have just enough. But the civilized man has spiritual wants and they are as elastic as air. A home is a house well filled with these elastic wants.
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. "Sit down by Mr. Kirkwood's side," said the doctor. "He wants to thank you, if he has strength to do it, for saving him from the death which seemed inevitable." Not many words could Maurice command.
The first is a big, good-natured Englishman who wants to see his sweetheart married to his friend, weds another and supports her quite handsomely by painting pictures he cannot sell; the latter a Pole with an Italian's temperament, yet who sees the woman he loves in the power of a demon by whom she is presumably debauched and makes no effort to rescue her, is not even jealous.
"And new men on the kilns. See!" Far to one side, a great mass of lumber reared itself against the sky, twisted and warped, the offal of the drying kilns. Ba'tiste shrugged his shoulders. "So! When the heat, eet is made too quick, the lumber twist. Eet is so easy when one wants some one to be tired and quit!" To quit! It was all plain to Barry Houston now.
The American troops remained within their lines until the British had piled their arms; and when this was done, the vanquished officers and soldiers were received with friendly kindness by their victors, and their immediate wants were promptly and liberally supplied.
He must be attended throughout the evening, introduced to everyone he does not know, and all his wants carefully taken care of. When he departs, he must be escorted to his carriage, and if he is a celebrated personage thanked for his presence although truly cultured gentlemen prefer not to have this honor paid them. A public ball is either a tremendous success or a miserable failure.
He was working on him, all the others being attended to, when the 352's deck officer came to say that he was going back to the destroyer to report. "The captain of this ship wants to abandon her," said the deck officer. "Abandon ship and we will never be able to get this man I got here now off her not in this sea, sir," said Doc. "And if he's left alone for two hours, he'll sure die."
In these days it almost seemed as if the girl in her predominatingly soft, serious mood were awaiting the declaration of his love. "You all want to have fun with me," she once said, "but nobody wants anything serious of me." Frederick did not understand himself.
Until winter was come we had food in plenty, for one could hardly send a charge of shot toward the river without bringing down swans, ducks, or cranes, while from the savages we got sufficient for our daily wants, meal made from the corn, pumpkins, peas, and beans.
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