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Justine told her mistress that she had been country-born and bred, and had grown up with a country girl's longing for nice surroundings and education of the better sort. "My name is not Justine at all," she said smilingly, "nor Harrison, either, although I chose it because I have cousins of that name. We are all given names when we go to college and take them with us.
And presently he found himself watching his own daughter Mary, as she came along the opposite bank of the stream. She was drawing Fiddle-dee-dee in a small red cart and was walking slowly. She walked well. Country-born and country-bred, there was nothing about her of plodding peasant. All her life she had danced with the Bannisters and the Beauforts.
If the soul and mind within only answered to the mask without, what queen or goddess could surpass this half-breed Spanish girl, this country-born, unnoted, but glorious Leam Dundas? he thought. "And I knew you from yours," she answered. "An honor beyond my deserts," said Edgar. Not that he thought the notice of a girl, even with such a face as this, beyond his deserts.
He begged the agent to intercede with his wife, and a letter went to her which brought the telegraphic reply, "Starting tomorrow." How they got through the first winter the agent never knew exactly. But they pulled through and the next year was easy, as country-born Aleck's skill came back.
You were country-born yourself, as I remember. Don't you recall how your imagination made rich with meaning the simple pleasures and sports of your early life? I can well remember hours of fishing at a dark curve in the river where the water was black even at noon-day because of the overhanging trees.
There were in Patusan antagonistic forces, and one of them was Rajah Allang, the worst of the Sultan's uncles, the governor of the river, who did the extorting and the stealing, and ground down to the point of extinction the country-born Malays, who, utterly defenceless, had not even the resource of emigrating "For indeed," as Stein remarked, "where could they go, and how could they get away?"
A country-born youth might keep to the soil, if he saw the slightest hope that the soil would keep him; when he sees that this is impossible he files to cities, because he believes that there is more gold to be picked up in the city mire in a month than can be won from the ploughed fallow in a year.
"How simple it was, too. There was no cause for mystery." "It would still be a mystery to Elmer Spiker, say. He can't conceive a man living in the country by choice." "To Elmer Spiker indeed, to most of the folks around here, the city is man's natural environment. It's just bad luck to be country-born." "Exactly," said I. Weston is a keen fellow.
Ten minutes ago the gaslighted house behind her had seemed like a prison. She felt that she must have air, space, and freedom. She would have liked a long ride on the buffalo-track. That, she felt, would clear her mind. She was no romantic creature out of her sphere, no exotic. She was country-born and bred, and her blood had been charged by a prairie instinct passing through three generations.
A carpenter the first Bengali convert Krishna Pal's confession Caste broken for the first time Carey describes the baptism in the Hoogli The first woman convert The first widow convert The first convert of writer caste The first Christian Brahman The first native chapel A Bengali "experience" meeting Carey founding a new community as well as church Marriage difficulties solved The first native Christian marriage feast in North India Hindoo Christian death and burial The first Christian schools and school-books in North India The first native Sunday school Boarding schools for the higher education of country-born Christians Carey on the mixed Portuguese, Eurasians, and Armenians The Benevolent Institution for destitute children of all races A hundred schools English only postponed Effect on native opinion and action The leaven of the Kingdom The Mission breaks forth into five at the close of 1810.
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