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"How did you come to be boycotted?" inquired Harold, with some curiosity, as soon as he found himself alone with Jack. "Oh, it doesn't take much talent to accomplish that nowadays," answered the young Irishman, with a laugh. "In the first place, the governor has a habit of asking for his rent, which is an unpopular proceeding at the best of times.
This response was so benevolent that Basil Dashwood presently began: "May I ask you at what theatre you've made arrangements?" Sherringham looked at him a moment. "Come and see me at the embassy and I'll tell you." Then he added: "I know your sister, Mrs. Lovick." "So I supposed: that's why I took the liberty of asking such a question." "It's no liberty, but Mr.
He held out his right hand and Orion accepted it, but not without reserve, for he had suspected a scornful ring in the patriarch's address, and he could not help asking himself whether this man honestly meant so well by him, that he could address him thus paternally as "child" in all sincerity of heart?
When fifty or a hundred men were killed in a single accident, and when such accidents kept happening, one on the heels of another, even the most callous public could not help asking questions. So in this case the "G. F. C." had been careful to minimise the loss of life, and to make excuses.
By-and-by the busy world recovered its old face to Fortune Williams not the world as she once dreamed of it, but the real world, as she had fought it through it all these years. "I was ever a fighter, so one fight more!" as she read sometimes in the "pretty" poetry her girls were always asking for read steadily, even when she came to the last verse in that passionate "Prospice:"
Our intercourse with our friends does not chiefly consist in asking them for things! But when communion does become petition, there is a real place for it as well as for the answer to such prayer. It is not too much to say that no true prayer has ever gone without its answer. This is quite consistent with the assertion that prayer does not change God; it only affords Him opportunity.
"There's Antonio," pursued Elsie, "would perhaps look after things a little. He is a good fellow, and only yesterday was asking if he couldn't do something for us. It's you he does it for, but little you care who loves you, or what they do for you!" At this moment they met old Jocunda, whom we have before introduced to the reader as portress of the Convent.
The tutor nodded again; and without asking leave, with a dogged air unlike his ordinary bearing when he was in the company of those above him, he drew a decanter towards him, and filling a glass with a shaking hand raised it to his lips and emptied it.
And Sophy asking the coloured porter about how his wife was getting along she called him William and if they were going to send her west, and all about her. I wish she wouldn't." Aunt Sophy undeniably had a habit of regarding people as human beings.
For more than an hour he pondered the question, now asking a question of the patriarch who seemed torn between desire to have the wonder-thing brought up, and fear lest he should lose the strangers now designing grapples, now formulating a definite line of procedure. At last, all things settled in his mind, he bade the old man get for him ten strong ropes, such as the largest nets were made of.
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