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They found on the table of the refectory a little omelette, leeks cooked in a sauce of flour and oil, haricots and cheese. "It is astonishing," said Durtal, "how in regard to mystics, the world errs on preconceived ideas, on the old string.

This is the same Alice Lisle who afterwards, in King James's time, suffered at Winchester for harbouring two of the Western Rebels. Mr. Brown is in most things curiously exact; but he errs in stating that Mrs. Greenville's name was Letitia, it was Arabella.

'I did not say it was, returned her aunt, 'but different generations have different notions of the mode of showing it; and the present certainly errs on the side of neglect of such tokens of mourning. If I did not think that Annaple and her mother are really uncomfortable at Lescombe, I should have told Mark that it was better taste to wait till the summer.

But though his children cannot always see what is best for themselves, He never errs. Your mother was a good woman, a faithful wife, and loving parent, but a life of uninterrupted prosperity had left her a stranger to the peace that cometh only from obedience to the will of Him who created us. It was in the midst of adversity that she found the source of consolation.

It is clear therefore that if this version errs in any respect it cannot at all events be to the disadvantage of the Government or they would assuredly have objected to it and have produced the resolution itself. On receipt of the above resolution the deputation inquired whether this offer of the Government's was intended to include Dr. Jameson.

He wildly errs who thinks I yield Precedence in the well-cloth'd field, Tho' mix'd with wheat I grow: Indulgent Ceres knew my worth, And to adorn the teeming earth, She bade the Poppy blow. Nor vainly gay the sight to please, But blest with pow'r mankind to ease, The goddess saw me rise: "Thrive with the life-supporting grain," She cried, "the solace of the swain, The cordial of his eyes.

I was silent for a moment, then I said: "Of course, Mrs. Tennison, you have no previous knowledge of me. You are taking me entirely at my own estimation." "When I meet a young man who is open and frank as you are, I trust him," she said quietly. "You know that woman's intuition seldom errs." I laughed. "Well," I answered.

However plausible may be the arguments which in this or that case may be adduced for concealment, the common instinct of mankind, which rarely errs in such matters, always conceives a suspicion that it is dictated by secret and discreditable motives; and that he who screens manifest guilt from exposure and punishment makes himself an accomplice in the wrong-doing, if he was not so before.

Fleetwood's oldest child, a boy between six and seven years of age, by which a pleasant conversation had been interrupted, and the mother obliged to leave the room for a short period. "I think, with you," said Miss Jones, the visitor, "that Mrs. Fleetwood errs very greatly in the management of her children." "Management! She has no management at all," interrupted Miss Spencer.

Antagoras has no witness to support his tale, Gongylus none to support his own. Who shall decide between conflicting testimonies which rest but on the lips of accuser and accused? Hereafter, if the matter be deemed sufficiently grave, let us refer the decision to the oracle that never errs. Time and chance meanwhile may favour us in clearing up the darkness we cannot now penetrate.