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"New England country ministers always know lots about Greek and Latin and how to make one dollar do the work of one-seventy-five, but they never have any dollars left when the doing's over. Father and I lived alone together always, and he taught me things, and I petted him fathers need it, specially when they have country congregations and we didn't bother much about other folks. Then he died.
Therefore what I'm doing's only too magnanimous bringing these benighted women here, paying with my person, stifling my just repugnance." While Sherringham judged privately that the manner in which Miss Rooth had acquitted herself offered no element of interest, he yet remained aware that something surmounted and survived her failure, something that would perhaps be worth his curiosity.
"If I hadn't kept going when you all wanted to turn back, you mean." "It's found now and that's the best part of it." I must confess that I lost my head just as the others did. I should have known better, I suppose, than to go yelling out our discovery at the top of my lungs, but knowing's one thing and doing's altogether different.
"I, my desires screw from thee, and direct Them and my thought to that sublim'd respect And conscience unto priesthood." It was hard to go. But yet he pretends at least to be resigned, and he ends by saying: "The crown of duty is our duty: Well Doing's the fruit of doing well. Farewell." For eighteen years Herrick lived in his Devonshire home, and we know little of these years.
Josiah planted his pole on the floor and lifted himself to his feet. "It's only a fairy story, Henery," he said. "What does it illustrate?" cried Aaron Kallaberger. "Nothin', I says. We was talkin' about Mark and William Bellus, and you switches off on Leander and Ernest. To a certain pint your story agrees with what my boy told me of the doin's in the school this afternoon." "What doing's?"
"That may be all thrue enough," observed Tom Whiskey; "still I think I know Art this many a year, and I can't say I ever seen any of these great doing's. I jist seen him as aisy put from a thing, and as much afeard of the tongues of the nabors, or of the world, as another."
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