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But as the boy Patrick was one day in the fields with his flock, a wolf, rushing from the neighboring wood, caught up a ewe-lamb, and carried it away. Returning home at evening from the fold, his aunt chided the boy for negligence or for sloth; yet he, though blushing at the reproof, patiently bore all her anger, and poured forth his prayers for the restoration of the ewe-lamb.
Carroll, with an exceeding sober face, "'Fourthly, that we will not kill, or suffer to be killed, or sell, or dispose to any person whom we have reason to believe intends to kill, any ewe-lamb that shall be weaned before the first day of May, in any year during the time aforesaid. Have you ever heard anything of that sound, Mr. Chipchase?" Mr. Chipchase had.
"You will never speak to me; for I shall not be here long. I am soon going back again to the miser- able monotony of drill and perhaps our regiment will be ordered out soon. And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman's most marked characteristic."
While, notwithstanding the genial heat of the summer's day, she presented a starved and chilly appearance. "Always indulged Connie," she repeated, "and that has inclined her to be rather selfish and fanciful." The above statements, both regarding his own conduct and the effect of that conduct upon his little ewe-lamb, nettled the amiable nobleman considerably.
Let us trust that the evicted quadruped carried off the blue ribbon of Kildare. For under the Lansdowne "Rack-rents" the struggling farmer could barely keep one racehorse, which, like the fabled ewe-lamb of ancient story, was his little all. Perhaps Mr.
Brown has paintings there for which he paid his thousands, and, being well advised, they are worth the thousands he paid; but this ewe-lamb that he got for nothing always gives him a secret exaltation in his own eyes. He seems to have credited to himself personally merit to the amount of what he should have paid for the picture. Then there is Mrs.
He had made his way like a wolf into her little fold, and torn her ewe-lamb and left her maimed and mutilated for life. How could a mother forgive such an offence as that, or consent to be the medium through which forgiveness should be expressed? "You must, mamma; or, if you do not, I shall do so. Remember that I love him. You know what it is to have loved one single man.
I cannot die in peace without first taking counsel with him how best to provide for the safety of my little ewe-lamb until these storms are overblown. Alas! alas! I did look to Richard Heywood She could say no more. 'Do not take thought about the morrow for me any more than you would for yourself, madam, said Dorothy. 'You know master Herbert says the one is as the other.
Nearing the allotted threescore and ten, blessed with a loving, beloved wife and this one idolized ewe-lamb, surrounded by luxury, in good health, honored, and honorable, trouble and travail seemed to have passed him by. But this scene of human happiness was the result of intelligent and unremitting effort.
"I want to see Connie. I want to hear from herself that she" broke out Lord Fallowfeild. His kindly heart yearned over this ewe-lamb of his large flock. But the eldest of the said flock interposed sternly. "No, no," she cried, "pray, papa, not yet. Connie is quite contented and reasonable I believe she is out shopping just now, too.
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