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In these days one is able to choose from a large body of young men holding fellowships in the various larger universities of the United States; but then, with the possible exception of two or three at Harvard, there was not a fellowship, so far as I can remember, in the whole country. The choosing of professors was immeasurably more difficult than at present.
Bonaparte gave employment to three brothers of this family; and, what was most difficult to persuade him to, he exempted the young man who brought me the watch from the conscription. When a fact of this nature reached Bonaparte's ear it was seldom that he did not give the principal actor in it some proof of his satisfaction. Two qualities predominated in his character kindness and impatience.
If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual self-sacrifice be exacted? The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared to entrance into the void? Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou!
Chloe will give it to him sorely for this, I'm afraid." They went deeply into the question of ransoming the boys, for they were convinced that they had really fallen into the hands of the brigands. But do what they would, say what they would, they could only come back to one result. They must wait. Patience was difficult under the circumstances, but there was no help for it.
It was difficult for these people to see how education would produce any other kind of a coloured man.
The capacity for hating was not in Galusha's make-up. He found it difficult to dislike any one strongly. But he could come nearer to disliking Raish Pulcifer than any one else, and now to dislike was added resentment. Why in the world should this Pulcifer person interfere with his peace of mind?
She had a habit of pointing a long, slender finger at some particular girl, and asking for an explanation of what she had been reading. Blue Bonnet's strict attention pleased her. She liked the girl's appreciation of good literature and her ability to fathom difficult passages.
I examined both roads, and neither of them is well picketed. I should think a surprise would not be very difficult, sir." "Humph! Where's your horse?" "He fell dead on the other side just as I got back. I found that leaky skiff, and came over to report, sir." "You have done well, Mr. Martin, very well indeed!
Doubtless she was more than usually hurt; and I know for myself, I found it more than usually difficult to maintain my strangeness. Even at the meal, I durst scarce unbuckle and scarce lift my eyes to her; and it was no sooner over than I fell again to my civilian, with more seeming abstraction and less understanding than before.
No one could get in or out, even when the casement was open, without tearing this wire away, which would not be a difficult matter to accomplish. On the left of the cottage, but to your right as you face it, stands the mill, to which you ascend by steps.
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