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His peroration is a fervent appeal to the delegates to reaffirm the equality of man; it calls upon them to adopt resolutions advocating the government control of all avenues of transportation and communication, and for the strict regulation of all industries that affect the common necessities of life. "There is no law above that of the Creator.
He has drunk wine enough to be bold, and calls out aloud from his end of the table, "Mr. Abel Newt!" That gentleman turns his head toward his guest. "We are wondering down here how it is that Miss Wayne went away from New York unengaged." "I am not her confidant," Abel answers; and gallantly adds, "I am sure, like every other man, I should be glad to be so."
"And Shock," calls out little Brown, "don't be a fool, and stop fighting," at which everybody roars except Shock himself, who, ashamed of his recent display of temper, hurries off to the field. Once more the campus is cleared.
The island of Delos calls for our particular attention, as the grand mart of the Athenians, as well as of the rest of Greece, and of the other countries in the Mediterranean, which at this period were engaged in commerce.
The day following their arrival at home Violet came in from a round of calls that she had been making, and, feeling too weary to go up to her room just then, she threw herself into a comfortable chair in the library, and took up a paper that lay on the table.
Introduced as an experiment at a dull moment in a new revue, the success of the item was unmistakable; the calls were so insistent and uproarious that even Lucas' ample devisings of additional "business" scarcely sufficed to keep pace with the demand.
"I spent two days with Tennyson in June," he writes to a literary friend in 1857, "and you take my word for it, he is a noble fellow, every inch of him. He is as tall as I am, with a head which Read capitally calls that of a dilapidated Jove, long black hair, splendid dark eyes, and a full mustache and beard.
"Don't ye see, ye fool, he don't belong to any wan of us. He belongs to the crowd to the regiment. That's what he's tryin' to show us. He's what that Frinchman down in F calls a a mascot; and, be jabers, he moves like a soldier!"
Perhaps the dying man calls in those who have the care of souls; the words of comfort slide over the ears, while the Holy Spirit seals none of them upon the heart. Perhaps he partakes of the Holy Supper: ah, the feast is to him not a feast of blessings, but an eating of judgment. Perhaps he prays to the Lord himself: the Lord answers, I know you not.
Laguerre remarked that they needed a better knowledge of the bugle calls, as they evidently mistook our "Cease firing" for "Advance." The best part of that week's march lay in the many opportunities it gave me to become acquainted with my General. The more I was permitted to be with him the longer I wanted to be always with him, and with no one else.
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