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"O! they can get that read to them all they need." "It seems to me, mamma, the Bible is for every one to read themselves. They need it a great many times when there is nobody to read it." "Eva, you are an odd child," said her mother. "Miss Ophelia has taught Topsy to read," continued Eva. "Yes, and you see how much good it does. Topsy is the worst creature I ever saw!"
Maybe the foal will be like her; the shape goes after the father mostly, but the sperrit and temper after the mother." The next morning Maggie was worse. Catharine was in the stable as soon as anybody was stirring, and the poor creature was trembling violently. She was watched with the most tender care, and when she became too weak to stand to eat or drink she was slung with soft bands and pads.
An habitual truth-teller is simply an impossible creature; he does not exist; he never has existed. Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization.
How exquisitely rounded was the oval, how delicately cut the profile of her face, how large were the widely separated, sparkling eyes, above which, even in the pale moonlight, the thick black brows were visible, united under the forehead as if for a dark deed to be performed in common! Time had rather enhanced than lessened the spell of this wonderful young creature.
He thought of Varvara Pavlovna and his face contracted involuntarily, like that of a man who feels some sudden pain, and he gave his head an impatient toss. Then his thoughts rested on Liza. "There," he thought, "is a new life just beginning. A good creature! I wonder what will become of her.
"It is preposterous to waste so many words about a miserable creature, a water-carrying girl, and to go through so much disturbance but how are we to put an end to it all? What is your advice, Eulaeus?" "I thank you for that enquiry, noble princess," replied Eulaeus.
A few days ago a muleteer from a town in the district arrived here, and went to the inn, and as he had no nickname and they are very fond here in Cidones of giving one to every living creature, they said to him: 'No matter how short a while you stay here, you will be given a nickname'; and he answered contemptuously: 'Bah!
"Wait till I express my opinion about queens, and lords, and the Speaker! I think I shall be able to say a word or two about the Speaker! and the Chairman of Committees. A poor little creature who can hardly say bo to a goose unless he had got all the men to back him.
Save for the droning bees and flies there seemed to be but one live creature astir between the grass and the blue. A solitary marsh-hawk, far over by the rail fence, was winnowing slowly, slowly hither and thither, lazily hunting. All this was in the world above the grass-tops.
She echoed me, not like a living woman, but like a creature moved by machinery. She went on sweeping all the time. I took away the broom as gently and as kindly as I could. "Come, come, my girl!" I said, "this is not like yourself. You have got something on your mind. I'm your friend and I'll stand your friend, even if you have done wrong.
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