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Perhaps as many as three pages of this copy-book were bespread with her specimens before she discovered that botany was a dry study. It would be too tedious to enumerate all the subsequent ephemeral undertakings which filled up the remainder of the six weeks. At the expiration of that time Mrs. Dawson returned.
From an early period, George was accustomed to employ those vacant night hours in working the sums set for him by Andrew Robertson upon his slate, practising writing in his copy-book, and mending the shoes of his fellow-workmen.
On the contrary, I am listening most attentively, and am anxious to guess-" "Prince, I wish to place myself in a respectable position I wish to esteem myself and to " "My dear sir, a man of such noble aspirations is worthy of all esteem by virtue of those aspirations alone." The prince brought out his "copy-book sentence" in the firm belief that it would produce a good effect.
She lifted them pleadingly to his face; and, touched by her evident terror and distress, he said in a tone somewhat less stern, "Can you tell me, Elsie, how it happens that your teacher brings me so bad a report of your conduct and lessons during the past month? She says you have been very idle; and the report tells the same story; and this copy-book presents a shameful appearance."
But Aline seemed to have a difficulty in getting away from the subject. "And you what do you read?" she asked timidly. "Sometimes one thing and sometimes another. To-day I see him as a living refutation of all the copy-book rules to success. He shatters the maxims with a touch-and-go manner that is fascinating in its immorality.
Lloyd George was sent quite early to the church elementary school with the other village children. There seems to have been nothing of the copy-book order about his behavior, nor are any moral lessons for the young to be drawn from it.
It gives me horrors to find it necessary to entreat you to look your duty in the face and do it, that even three or four Italian hearts Carlo among them may thank you. Not Carlo, you say?" How little do you think how the obligations of the hour should affect a creature deserving life! Do you fancy that Carlo wishes you to be for ever reading the line of a copy-book and shaping your conduct by it?
"Nobody in the world knows my address." The mystery was not lessened by the contents. There was simply a blank sheet of paper, and when this was unfolded a half-sovereign rolled out. The postmark was Houndsditch. After puzzling herself in vain, and examining at length the beautiful copy-book penmanship of the address, Esther gave up the enigma.
But there I always found her, the same bright housewife; often humming her Devonshire ballads when no strange foot was coming up the stairs, and blunting the sharp boy in his official closet with melody. I wondered, at first, why I so often found Sophy writing in a copy-book; and why she always shut it up when I appeared, and hurried it into the table-drawer. But the secret soon came out.
"Did the kind gentleman under the three balls give you all that?" "He did. Count it." Laurie frowned. "Don't be so arrogant about your wealth. It's fleeting. Any copy-book will tell you so." She opened a small drawer in the table, swept the bills into it, and casually closed it. Laurie stared. "Are you going to leave it there? Just like that?" She looked patient. "Why not?"
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