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But Alice, my betrothed, I have lost her forever." "Melancholy Orpheus, how? Did you look over your shoulder, and did she vanish into smoke?" "It is her father who has gone over the Styx. She is in life; but she has heard of my flirtation" "And served you right by leaving you. Now you will quit capering in a lady's chamber, and go to work, a sadder and a wiser man." "Not till I have found her.

In the possession of wealth and all those temporal blessings, for which wiser and better men have to toil through a long life, and seldom obtain. The world was before me, and death far distant, in my thoughts. But now, the world is receding, and death is very near. You start! Have not you discovered that truth before?

"Take another," said he, with a smile, "and let your cares end in smoke as you wend homeward. My most profound thoughts come from my cigar. To that I look for my philosophy, my friendship, my love almost my religion. A cigar is a brain-comforter, verily. You should smoke more, Clifford. You will grow better, wiser COOLER." "I take your cigar and counsel together," was my reply.

It is pleasing to reflect that the public mind of England has softened while it has ripened, and that we have, in the course of ages, become, not only a wiser, but also a kinder people. There is scarcely a page of the history or lighter literature of the seventeenth century which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity.

You are now, I hope, wiser; and therefore take back your riches, which I hope you have now learned to make a proper use of. Pizarro was equally filled with gratitude and astonishment at this generosity of his brother, and he acknowledged, from experience, that industry was better than gold. They then embarked for Spain, where they all safely arrived.

"Miss Vaughan," I broke in, "whatever my sentiments may have been and I was an idiot not to suspect the truth! they have all changed into enthusiastic admiration. You were wiser and braver than all of us." A wave of colour swept into her cheeks. "I might add," I went on, "that I thought white robes becoming, but they were not nearly so becoming as this gown!"

An undertone of mockery rang through the languid silvery sweetness of his accents, and the Priest's dark brows knitted in an irritated frown. "Thou art over-flippant of speech, Sah-luma!" he observed austerely. "Take heed thou be not snared into misfortune by the glibness of thy tongue! Thou dost speak of the chaste Lysia with unseemly lightness. learn to be reverent, and so shalt thou be wiser!"

The Barotse whom we had were unwilling to go to Masiko, since they owe him allegiance as the son of Santuru, and while they continue with the Makololo are considered rebels. The message by Mosantu was, that "I was sorry to find that Santuru had not borne a wiser son.

His judgment for what concerned his children was the wiser, and for her, too, when she longed to throw herself into this work of reform or that to expose herself, in other words, to the very element from which a kind Providence had seen fit to remove her.

Whoever differs from any general custom, is supposed both to think, and proclaim himself wiser than the rest of the world: which the rest of the world cannot bear, especially in a young man. A young fellow is always forgiven and often applauded, when he carries a fashion to an excess; but never if he stops short of it.