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She found it much pleasanter to chuckle over the discomfiture of the Irish patriots, to ridicule the failure of their peaceable agitation, to sneer at their poor effort in arms, to nickname, and misrepresent, and libel the brave-hearted gentleman who led that unlucky endeavour; and above all to felicitate herself on the reduction that had taken place in the Irish population.
You will then be the brave-hearted, bright-spirited woman that Nature intended you to be, after she had passed you through some of the preliminary stages." The flush on the face of Miss Dora gradually passed away as she listened to this speech. She rose. "Doctor," said she, "I like that better than what you have been saying.
"I have a note of introduction here from one of your authors, as I think he called himself, a very popular writer for whom you publish." The publisher rose and came forward in the most cordial and respectful manner. "Mr. Gridley? Professor Byles Gridley, author of 'Thoughts on the Universe'?" The brave-hearted old man colored as if he had been a young girl.
Death claimed some of these brave-hearted women before the life at Plymouth really began. Dorothy May Bradford, the daughter of Deacon May of the Leyden church, came from Wisbeach, Cambridge; she was married to William Bradford when she was about sixteen years old and was only twenty when she was drowned at Cape Cod.
His employer proving false to his contract in the matter of the land, and there being no law in the country to force him to fulfil it, Israel who, however brave-hearted, and even much of a dare-devil upon a pinch, seems nevertheless to have evinced, throughout many parts of his career, a singular patience and mildness was obliged to look round for other means of livelihood than clearing out a farm for himself in the wilderness.
The trail life had hardened us all, but the finishing touch for Rex Krane came in the invigorating breath of that mountain-cooled, sun-cleansed atmosphere of Santa Fé. Shrewd, philosophic, brave-hearted like his historic ancestry, he laid his plans carefully now, sure of doing what he was set to do.
He was, therefore, fast in the toils, and with but little chance of escape. Little concern did this give the brave-hearted patriot, who only hoped and prayed that at last the time had come when his countrymen would launch out upon the resolute course of action which he had so earnestly recommended to them.
"Why, what a brave-hearted girl you are!" "Brave?" she said. "What, to do this for one who saved me perhaps from death? But tell me, doctor, will he live?" "I don't know; I hope so; it is impossible to say. It is such a rare thing for a man to be bitten by one of these creatures.
And then their last conversation together proceeded. And no one interfered with the two brave-hearted men. No one interposed, or said that Greatheart would exhaust or alarm Standfast, or would injuriously hasten his end. Not only so, but all the way till he was half over the river, Standfast kept up his own side of the noble conversation.
"That's just what I was saying to myself too, my boy," said Mère Jansoulet, shuddering at the memory of the ill-fated festivities in honor of the bey. "My boy!" to M. Barreau, to a man of his importance! That instantly placed her very high in the esteem of that little circle. Ah! grandeurs and splendors did not dazzle her, the brave-hearted old woman.
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