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"Just take a turn across the stage, will you? Must walk well to lead a march." As she went, Christie heard Mr. Sharp taking notes audibly: "Good tread; capital figure; fine eye. She'll make up well, and behave herself, I fancy."

We ought to bear patiently being told of our faults," urged Miss Wort, who on no account would have allowed one of the common people to impugn the spiritual authorities unrebuked: her own private judgment on doctrine was another matter. "'Between him and thee, yes," said Mrs. Christie, who on some points was as sensitive and acute as a well-born woman.

The surface quickly came to rest after disturbance by street traffic. Sir W. M. H. Christie, Eighth Astronomer Royal, took up his duties in that capacity in 1881. Besides a larger altazimuth that he erected in 1898, he has widened the field of operations at Greenwich by the extensive use of photography and the establishment of large equatoreals.

"Be quiet, with your wicked words!" cried Aunt Elsie. "You are far from being in a fit state to die, you disobedient, bad child." But Aunt Elsie was vexed with herself for the blow she had given, and all the more vexed with Christie on that account.

"Why, Christie! Why, you foolish lassie! What ails you, child? Has anything happened? or is it only that you are so glad to see me home again? Don't cry in that wild way, child. What is it, Christie?" "It's nothing I dinna ken I canna help it!" cried Christie, after an ineffectual effort to control herself.

"Distinctly and decidedly my final answer, Mr, Pletcher." Christie tried to speak kindly, but she was angry with herself and him, and unconsciously showed it both in face and voice, for she was no actress off the stage, and wanted to be very true just then as a late atonement for that earlier want of candor. A quick change passed over Mr.

And soon after she added: "There are a great many things in the Bible that are hard to understand." "Yes; I suppose so I am sure of it," said Christie, gravely. "But the things most necessary for us to know and understand are easy for us; at least, with the help of the Holy Spirit they grow easy, I think.

"But, Effie," said Christie, suddenly, "this must have been very dear. A plainer one would have done just as well. Did it cost much?" "Not very much," said Effie, sitting down beside her again. "A Bible is for one's whole lifetime, and so I got a good one, and a pretty one, too; you are so fond of pretty things.

"I don't like you to say such things to me. But," and she beamed a smile upon him that fairly dazzled, "I do love the way you pronounce my name. No one says it just as you do. I hate being called Christie. Don't you ever begin calling me Christie. Do you hear?" "I've always loved Christine," he said frankly. Then he felt himself blush under the paint. She hesitated, suddenly shy.

Sometimes it was firm, when Christie, as she not unfrequently did, ventured to resist it; but gentle never. When Christie's mother died, all their friends said the little Redferns were very fortunate in having an Aunt Elsie to supply her place in the household; and in some respects they were.