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But to speak of these things, after so long silence, proved more trying than she had anticipated. The scene in the red drawing-room, the long agony of waiting and of farewell rose up before her after all these years with a vividness and poignancy that refused to be gain-said. "No," she answered, "he lived four days. He spoke to me of many things he wished to do. And I have done them all, I think.
"An' I for another," said Elias Sweetland. "An' I, An' I," echoed several voices. "Stiddy there, stiddy, my hearts of oak," began Old Zeb, reflectively. "A still tongue makes a wise head, and 'twill be time enough to talk o' shal-lals when the weddin'-day's fixed. Now I've a better notion. It will not be gain-said by any of 'ee that I've the power of logic in a high degree hey?" "Trew, O king!"
It was all done so quickly they were so either taken by surprise that nobody, inside or out, gain-said or delayed her by a word. It was hardly done when a knock sounded at the door upon the passage. "Young ladies!" a voice called, Madam Routh's. She and her friends had driven down from the Notch by sunset and moonlight.
I now come to the practical part of my letter; I am desirous to help you three, and I want to help you in the way most suited to your individual characters. The sad fact cannot be gain-said you must give up your home you must earn your livings. May I help you to find a way to put bread into your mouths? I have thought it all out, and I think I know a plan.
Standing on the borderland between pure and applied science, his sympathies were yet with the latter; and as the outgoing President of the British Association at Southport, in 1882, he expressed the opinion that 'in the great workshop of nature there are no lines of demarcation to be drawn between the most exalted speculation and common-place practice. The truth of this is not to be gain-said, but it is the utterance of an engineer who judges the merit of a thing by its utility.
It seemed to me then that life was one long fairy-tale. And how quickly we learned their language! Has it ever occurred to you that no one of them has ever bothered to learn ours none except Frank, and he only because he was mentally curious? Then came the long wooing. How we argued the marriage question discussed and debated each knowing that the Great Doom was on her and could not be gain-said.
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