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Even flaws in the glass, and cracks in the ceiling have returned upon me, and especially since the house has been pulled down." "I cannot think how the natives of an old house can wilfully destroy all their old associations, their heirloooms," said Edmund. "Sometimes they have none," said his aunt.
Ladybug, to pick flaws in the beautiful Betsy Butterfly?" he asked himself savagely. "Who is she to find fault with Betsy's lovely wings? If Mrs. Ladybug herself had wings, I shouldn't think her chatter so strange. But a person with no wings has no business expressing his views of somebody else's." Buster Bumblebee was so out of patience with Mrs.
Oh, they'll call it in some sort a marriage, for the lady's own sake; but they'll find flaws enough to crack a thousand such mad matches. The divorce is the thing! There's precedent, you know. A fair lady was parted from a brave man not a thousand years ago, because a favorite wanted her. True, Frances Howard wanted the favorite, whilst this beauty of yours"
At least, I mean I did notice it at the time, but I didn't take much notice of it. Well you know what I mean!" As Miss Dickenson knows perfectly well, she tolerates technical flaws of speech with a nod, and allows Mr. Pellew to go on: "But, I say, this will be an awful smash for the family. A blind man!" Then he becomes aware that a conclusion has been jumped at, and experiences relief.
Many pairs of eyes from among the auditors were straying out to where the summer lay dying. Did they know those boys whom the State classed as unfortunates that out of this death there would come again life? Or did they see but the darkness the decay of to-day? The professor from the State University was putting the case very fairly. There were no flaws seemingly to be picked in his logic.
He began to understand and to realize the flaws in it that he had asked more of Doctor Prescott than he would grant. Still, he went on, and the doctor heard him through without a word. "Who put you up to this?" the doctor asked, when he had finished. "Nobody, sir." "Your mother?" "No, sir." "Did you ever hear your father propose anything like this?" "No, sir." "Who did? Speak the truth." "I did."
An admirable method for securing Gallito's consent to his daughter's acceptance of this professional engagement which Hanson offered. But, carefully considered, it had its flaws, and Hanson was not the man to overlook them. Indeed, he sat there in a baffled and furious silence, going over them mentally and viewing them from every possible angle.
Lucy told him what he knew, but Monckton would not speak, even to him. He had to get hold of Waddy before he understood the whole case. Waddy was in Monckton's secret, and, indeed, in everybody's. He knew it was folly to deceive your lawyer, so he was frank. Mr. Middleton learned his client's guilt and danger, but also that his enemies had flaws in their armor.
Flaws and loop-holes! but that experiment has as much wisdom as wit in it!" "And to me, it seemeth better, now that Providence has brought all the colonies under one government, that these prejudices should be forgotten. We are a people, sprung from many nations, and our effort should be to preserve the liberality and intelligence, while we forget the weaknesses, of all."
not less can it trace the noble thoughts of great men, till it finds them mouldered into the common dust of conversation, and used to stop men's mouths, and patch up theories, to keep out the flaws of opinion.
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