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A curse rose from the bottom of his soul. Glancing out of the corner of his eye into a shop, he saw by a clock on the wall that it was ten minutes past seven. He had to make haste and at the same time to go someway round, so as to approach the house from the other side.... When he had happened to imagine all this beforehand, he had sometimes thought that he would be very much afraid.
They could not be otherwise than rivals; and this feeling was shared in by the crews of both, from captain to cabin-slave. As regards the owners and officers in such cases, there is a substantial money motive at the bottom of this rivalry. The boat that "whips" in one of these races, wins also the future patronage of the public.
"Well, my dear girl, you will all want a square feed when you get to the bottom of those Falls." "And who are we all, pray?" inquired Kate. "Well," said Hugh, "there are the ducky little girls, that's two. I sent them a wire each this morning and had their acceptances before the X.Y.Z. got to work." "That was smart," said Kate.
"It will bring unhappiness and evil all around, but to no one so much as David Underwood himself," said Mrs. Dean, impressively, as she rose. "Mrs. Dean," said Darrell, springing quickly to his feet, "you don't know the good this little interview has done me! I thank you for it and for your sympathy from the bottom of my heart."
"Once he had been working late at Yalbury Bottom, and had had a drap of drink, and lost his way as he was coming home-along through Yalbury Wood, didn't ye, Master Poorgrass?" "No, no, no; not that story!" expostulated the modest man, forcing a laugh to bury his concern. " And so 'a lost himself quite," continued Mr.
If I stood alone, I would go and hide my head in any hole, and care no more about the world and its ways. I wish I was well out of it, and at the bottom of a quiet grave anybody might have the world for me then! But don't let me disturb you longer; it is getting late. Ethelberta then wished her mother good-night, and went away.
But still the pomp of glorious summer, and the presence, 'not to be put by, of the everlasting light, that is either always present, or always dawning these potent elements impregnate the very city life, and the dim reflex of nature which is found at the bottom of well-like streets, with more solemn powers to move and to soothe in summer.
did leap down our stairs from top to bottom, at two leaps, and frighted us, that we could not tell well whether it was the cat or a spirit, and do sometimes think this morning that the house might be haunted.
Paulus looked at him enquiringly, and though total darkness reigned in the cave, Stephanus felt his gaze and said, "I owe no man a grudge and I love my neighbor. Great injuries have been done me, but I have for given from the bottom of my heart forgiven. Only one man lives to whom I wish evil, and he is a Gaul." "Forgive him too," said Paulus, "and do not let evil thoughts disturb your sleep."
Now suppose that, a million or two of years hence, when Britain has made another dip beneath the sea and has come up again, some geologist applies this doctrine, in comparing the strata laid bare by the upheaval of the bottom, say, of St. George's Channel with what may then remain of the Suffolk Crag. Reasoning in the same way, he will at once decide the Suffolk Crag and the St.
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