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Well, I tossed mine down, thereto precipitated by a warning from the stranger in the launch: "We shall need all the tide we can get." "Thank you," returned Charley. "If there could be any chance for me to replace " "Miss La Heu is her name?" inquired Hortense. "I did not catch it yesterday. She works, you say?" "At the Woman's Exchange. She bakes cakes for weddings among her other activities."
"Not a Northerner, Miss La Heu." She became mocking. "Scarcely a Southerner, I presume?" But I kept my smile and my directness. "No more a Southerner than a Northerner." "Pray what, then?" "An American." She was silent. "It's the 'sacred trust' for me." She was still silent. "If my state seceded from the Union tomorrow, I should side with the Union against her." She was frankly astonished now.
Eliza La Heu had perceived none of this, for she was intent upon General; nor had John Mayrant, who had approached her with the purpose of coming to her aid.
The war had not prevented my parents from sending me to school and college, but here the old had seen the young grow up starved of what their fathers had given them, and the young had looked to the old and known their stripped heritage. "Miss La Heu," I said, "I could not tell you, you would not wish me to tell you, what the sight of Kings Port has made me feel.
It was on the happy day that saw Miss Eliza La Heu again providing me with sandwiches and chocolate that my knowledge of the wedding and the bride and groom began really to take some steps forward. It was not I who, at my sequestered lunch at the Woman's Exchange, began the conversation the next time.
For those which for so many years have lain so heavy upon us, it is not wholly accountable; but one may say, with colour enough, that it has accidentally produced and begotten the mischiefs and ruin that have since happened, both without and against it; it, principally, we are to accuse for these disorders: "Heu! patior telis vulnera facta meis." The wounds were made by my own weapons." Ovid, Ep.
"I do not know," said the provost, interrupting her, to tell her what had happened to him. "And you saw without my permission a lady of the court! Ha! ha! heu! heu! hein!" Then she began to moan, to weep, and to cry in such a deplorable manner and so loudly, that her lord was quite aghast. "What's the matter, my darling? What is it? What do you want?" "Ah!
Dear Abraham, I never met a parson in my life who did not consider the Corporation and Test Acts as the great bulwarks of the Church; and yet it is now just sixty-four years since bills of indemnity to destroy their penal effects, or, in other words, to repeal them, have been passed annually as a matter of course. Heu vatum ignar mentes.
Heu, quanto minus! How much more was that lost image to him than all it left on earth! The study of love is very much like that of meteorology. We know that just about so much rain will fall in a season; but on what particular day it will shower is more than we can tell.
"Quum subita in cantum dementia cepit amantem Ignoscenda quidem scirent si ignoscere manes; Restilit Eurydicengue suam jam luce sub ipsa Immemor heu victusque animi respexit." "Oh, stop that!" cried Walker, and Hatteras laughed. "For God's sake, stop it!"
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