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When the alma Venus, the life-giving and joy-giving power of nature, so fondly cherished by the Pagan world, could not save her followers from self- dissatisfaction and ennui, the severe words of the apostle came bracingly and refreshingly: "Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."+ Throughout age after age, and generation after generation, our race, or all that part of our race which was most living and progressive, was baptized into a death;+ and endeavoured, by suffering in the flesh, to cease from sin.
His impulsiveness opened the way for some confidence from her, and before the affair was arranged she was enjoying in her quality of clerical widow the balm of the Virginians' reverent sympathy. They said they were church people themselves. "Ah don't know what yo' mothah means by yo' hoase not being in oddah," the young lady said to Alma as they went down-stairs together.
The catches kept coming in her throat and she smiled faintly. "Who is this that hasn't any friend?" asked Mrs. Driscoll cheeringly. "Somebody was sorry," returned Alma. "I wish they didn't have to be sorry for me." "Oh, you can't be sure. When I was a little girl all the best part of Valentine's Day was running around to the houses with them after dark.
What else is this really but the teaching of Aristotle that there should be "private property and common use"? It is, in fact, the very antithesis of communism. Some have thought that he was fettered in his language by his academic position; but no Oxford don has ever said such hard things about his Alma Mater as did this master of Balliol.
Millie du Gass, the supreme soprano of two continents dead now, of heartbreak, some said; Alma, in her plaid-silk waist and the bookkeeper's curve to her back. That walk across the parlor floor "There's Auchinloss now," said Bruce. She did not reply, but sat with her handkerchief against her mouth and crowded breathing. There were three auditions.
They only had a little money on hand when I gave them that talking to, and Christmas is 'most here, and they haven't got things they really need. Amanda's coat that she wore to meeting last Sunday didn't look very warm to me, and poor Alma had her furs chewed up by the Leach dog, and she's going without any. They need lots of things. And poor Mis' Adkins is 'most sick with tobacco smoke.
And, to tell you the truth, I believe he would like that a good deal better; I believe that, if there's anything he hates, it's openness and candor." Alma laughed, and put her arms round her mother, who could not help laughing a little, too. The winter did not renew for Christine and Mela the social opportunity which the spring had offered. After the musicale at Mrs.
There, now, we'll shake 'ands over it, and be as good friends as ever. The handshaking was metaphorical merely. Thomas smiled, and was endeavouring to shape a sentence, when he heard voices out in the hall. 'There's Alma and her father back, said Mrs. Warbeck. 'I didn't think they'd come back so soon; they've been with some new friends of ours. Thomas jumped up.
"Alma, you know that I only wish to get at your real feeling in the matter." "And you know that I don't want to let you especially when I haven't got any real feeling in the matter. But I should think speaking in the abstract entirely that if either of those arts was ever going to be in earnest about him, it would want his exclusive devotion for a week at least." "I didn't know," said Mrs.
In Wales, Harvey often accompanied her; at Pinner he ceased to do so; but neither then nor now had any talk on the subject passed between them. Alma took it for granted that her husband was very 'broad' in matters of faith.
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