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You're indignant with me and you don't see how you can remain in the house with me " "Why, Mrs. Abbott!" she exclaimed, in horror. "You know it's truth to some extent," I said. The good lady drew herself up. "Mrs. Abbott, don't tell me that I have been so rude " "Dear Mrs. Tuis," I laughed, "don't stop to apologize just now. You have not been lacking in courtesy, but I know how I must seem to you.
Kneeling, with blanched faces and outstretched hands, they supplicated. "San Pantaleone!" Then, at the church door, in the midst of the smoke of two censers, Don Consolo appeared, resplendent in a violet chasuble, with gold embroidery. He held aloft the sacred arm of silver, and conjured the air, shouting the Latin words: "Ut fidelibus tuis aeris serenitatem concedere digneris.
Perrin," I said, "if Mrs. Tuis will pardon me, I think I ought to speak with you alone." The nurse hastily withdrew; and I saw the elderly lady draw herself up with terrible dignity and then suddenly quail, and turn and follow the nurse. I told the little man what I knew. After he had had time to get over his consternation, he said that fortunately there did not seem to be any sign of trouble.
Sylvia laughed, a trifle wildly but Mrs. Tuis had dealt with hysteria before. "What would you like to wear?" she demanded. And then, without waiting for an answer, "Let me choose something. One of your pretty frocks." "A pretty frock, and a seething volcano underneath! That is your idea of a woman's life!"
It's going on in every fraternity house, every 'prep school' dormitory in America. And the parents refuse to know, just as you do!" "But what could I possibly do, Mrs. Abbott?" "I don't know, Mrs. Tuis. What I am going to do is to teach the young girls." She whispered, aghast, "You would rob the young girls of their innocence.
In such a life there is no place for untruthfulness or any member of its impish brood. The one concern of the child, as of the man, is to be loyal to intrinsic reality, to be true to his true self. His standard is always inward, not outward. He knows that he is what he is, not what he is reputed to be. Quantum unusquisque est in oculis Tuis, tantum est et non amplius.
He had never got clear whether I was a sewing-woman, or a tutor, or what, and whenever he erred in such matters, it was on the side of caution. "Your wife is doing well," I said, "and the child as well as could be expected." "Thank you," he said. "Did no one else come?" "Mrs. Tuis was not able," I said, diplomatically, and we moved towards the launch.
"Nay! rise up, my son, it is thine: Deus benedicat et custodiat te, in omnibus viis tuis. Thinkest thou, my son, thy name has been forgotten in my poor prayers? God made thee His instrument, but thou wast a very very willing one; and now, my son, wherein can I serve thee? Thou hast but to speak." Thus encouraged, Alfred told all his tale, and Dunstan listened with much emotion.
The Emperor Tsait'ten smiled from ear to ear. One of the Roko Tuis, or native chiefs, from Fiji, sprang up and brandished a war club. The President then proceeded to call the other nations, beginning with Austria-Hungary and ending with Zanzibar, whose Sultan, Hamoud bin Mahomed, had come to the congress in the escort of Queen Victoria. Each contributed liberally.
If the unhappy prince gave implicit faith to the professions of statesmen holding such notions, which is implied by his whole conduct. CUR ME EXANIMAS QUERELIS TUIS? In plain English, Why do you deafen me with your croaking?
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