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As this remark was clearly intended in the light of a joke, all felt the duty of laughing at it, although the mirthful inclination was not very tremendous, coming from such a grim source. "Jo," added the redskin, after waiting for the applause to wear itself out, "want to see you."
Stewart seems to have cherished a sense of duty or of friendship toward his chief that did not permit him to desert him for a moment while life remained. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon when the English abandoned the field. Pursued to the water's edge by about fifty savages the regular troops cast from them guns, accoutrements, and even clothing, that they might run the faster.
No report has yet been made to me by the commission thus created. Whatever action is had looking to a settlement of the indebtedness in accordance with the act referred to will be duly submitted to the Congress. I deem it my duty to call to the attention of Congress the condition of the present building occupied by the Department of Justice.
Those who admired Malcolm of whom there were not a few even in Vanity Fair called him the fisher-king: the wags called him the kingfisher, and laughed at the oddity of his taste in preferring what he called his duty to the pleasures of the season. But the marquis found even the hen-pecked Partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.
'Is it really my duty? 'In the sight of God, yes, said the Colonel and John Jardine. 'Yes, my dear, yes, there can be no doubt of it, said the Colonel's wife and Aunt Betsy. Brian of the Abbey said not a word, and Dr. Rylance looked on in silence, with a diabolical sneer.
Let me first conjure up the seventy-seven great and the seven hundred and seventy-seven little demons. They will do their duty, if you open your heart to us without reserve." This demand sounded urgent enough, and Ledscha pressed her head against the old woman's shoulder as if seeking assistance, exclaiming: "I can not no, I can not!
Hongkong is a nest of smugglers. "Pekin would, or rather could, never succeed in cutting off foreign intercourse. Also I do not think China would wish to stop its importation altogether. All they ask is an increased duty on it." There was a moment of hesitation in Gordon's mind as to whether he would come home or not.
"Yes, I don't think we can insist on it as being a levée," he said, "where one is expected to come and make one's bow and pay formal compliments. That idea is an old anthropomorphic one, of course. It is superstitious it is almost debasing to think of God demanding praise as a duty incumbent on us.
The wax lady's immature mind had reasoned that, since she had come to life, her evident duty was to mix with the world and do whatever other folks did. She could not realize how different she was from people of flesh and blood; nor did she know she was the first dummy that had ever lived, or that she owed her unique experience to Tanko-Mankie's love of mischief.
When we consider the multitude of books which have perished from the earth, from the want of a preserving hand, a lively sense of regret comes over us that so few libraries have been charged with the duty of acquiring and keeping every publication that comes from the press.
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