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There was, it is true, nothing in the house worth stealing, but yet a stranger might not know this. "Doth Mrs. Gaunt still live in this house?" he asked. "Is she not a woman that is very, charitable and ready to help those that are in trouble?" I looked at him, wondering what his trouble might be, for he seemed well-to-do and comfortable, except for the hat-brim.
The letter gives many details in support of this conclusion, and is in every respect worth perusing. The same threats were made against all churches in which colored people assembled to worship, and one of them burned. Continued threats of assassination were made against the colored preachers, and one of them is now under special guard by order of Major General Woods."
I felt the cowardice of suffering worth and virtue to be insulted without a defender, from the fear that I myself should be involved in the insult, and replied The gentleman, sir, to whom you have twice alluded in terms of so much contempt, were he present would smile at your mistake.
"I would like to try, but I'm no sure it would act in every case. I have come across some women as bad as the men; they would drive their husbands on." She smiled in a half wistful manner. "Maybe," she added, "it's as well to do something worth the remembering when ye are young. There's a long while to sit still in afterward."
Also during the whole of this year a Christian lady gave to our dear child board and schooling without any remuneration, a present worth to us not less than fifty pounds. On this point I cannot help making a few remarks: I had clearly seen it to be the will of God that my daughter should be brought up at school, and not at home. My reasons for it were these: 1.
The blame, if blame there were, was divided among so many, that the share of each, my share at least, appeared to me so small, as not to be worth a moment's consideration. The shame, if we had any, was carried away in the tide of popular enthusiasm, and drowned and lost in the fury and noise of the torrent.
The above are all the particulars of the lives of Eumenes and Sertorius which have come down to us, and which appear worth recording.
"Well, they're not worth minding, Peggy, and I wouldn't act as if I'd heard what they said when you meet them. I wouldn't take any notice of them." "I? Why, it's they who won't take any notice of me, auntie. I'm like my little dog, a vulgar plebeian. What would they say, what would they think, if they could hear you call me Peggy? that's as bad as Pete, isn't it?"
J. Elfreda's subsequent casting aside of her friendship and her tardy realization of Grace's worth brought about a happy ending of their freshman year. In "Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College" the four girls set out to find the rainbow side of their sophomore year.
You have grown rich at Santa Catalina. What will you buy?" "Buy me a wife, perhaps," was the reply. "I will give two strings for a good wife. Do you know any worth so much?" "No," said the girl, stoutly. "I don't know any worth two whole strings of abalone. You can get a good wife for much less."
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