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But the great mass were, what they were in Greece, even in the days of Pericles, what they have ever been under the influence of Paganism, what they ever will be without Christianity to guide them, victims or slaves of man, revenging themselves by squandering his wealth, stealing his secrets, betraying his interests, and deserting his home.
'He who has lost all here, who has incurred his grandfather's anger, pursued Aime, 'were he not wiser to make his peace with his friends in England? 'His friends in England would not like him the better for deserting his poor wife's cause, said Philip. 'I advise you to hold your tongue, and not meddle or make. Aime subsided, and Philip detected something like tears.
As though such a book as Hints and Helps had never existed, Abner shot for the gate he was but a hobbledehoy fascinated with the idea of playing gentleman. But in Ross there were the makings of a man. For a few half-hearted paces, under the first impulse of horror, he followed his deserting chief, the laughter of the family, the unrestrainable guffaws of the negroes, sounding in the rear.
These deluded women get their deserved punishment for deserting the highest and acknowledged duties of life, by the ignominy and contempt heaped upon them by those who allured them from their homes.
"Here's my grandson, John; he and half a dozen of these young fellows would fetch Farmer Gray's in less than no time. Come, lads be off with ye." This suggestion was highly applauded, except by the miner who had so injudiciously compromised himself, and was carried out at once. When the ladder arrived the three other miners, ashamed of deserting their comrade, volunteered to descend with him.
'I cannot; permit you, Colonel Talbot, answered Waverley, 'to speak of any plan which turns on my deserting an enterprise in which I may have engaged hastily, but certainly voluntarily, and with the purpose of abiding the issue. 'Well, said Colonel Talbot, smiling, 'leave me my thoughts and hopes at least at liberty, if not my speech. But have you never examined your mysterious packet?
That very night there would be a moon. And the sea was calm as a sheltered lake. Isobel's lips parted in a delighted smile as she tried to imagine Courtenay deserting her to discuss those celebrities whom Elsie had made the most of. And how she would play off the Count against the captain! They ought to be at daggers drawn long before the Straits of Magellan were reached.
She felt suddenly cast down to sadness. They HAD been lovely times! To be deserting in spirit all that had been so good to her it seemed like a crime! She slid down off the table and, passing behind the cook, put her arms round those substantial sides.
They had time to jam down the brakes, but it would have been wiser to have dashed through the flock without loss of time, for an angry ram turned as the car slacked speed, and when Daisy and Maud saw him jump toward them, they also jumped out into the gutter, deserting their car. A big, woolly ram leaped up from the midst of the flock, and actually landed in the runaway automobile.
For rivers are constantly shifting their position in the valley-plain, encroaching gradually on one bank, near which there is deep water, and deserting the other or opposite side, where the channel is growing shallower, being destined eventually to be converted into land.
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