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Talk of mind, indeed! a creature whose favourite companionship is that of butterflies, and who tells me that butterflies are the souls of infants unbaptized. What an article for 'The Londoner, on the culture of young women! What a girl for Miss Garrett and Miss Emily Faithfull! Put aside Mind as we have done Face.
"I feel as if I could dance forever," cried Polly, when Amy Garrett turned away from the piano and declared she would play no more and she still pirouetted on one foot, to come up red as a rose to the group. "Look at Polly's cheeks!" cried Amy.
I had been used to singing in a church choir, and it was pleasant to hear such familiar cathedral services as Garrett in D, Smart in F, Walmisley in D minor, and Hopkins in F, so perfectly rendered seven thousand miles away from home, thanks to that excellent musician, Dr. Slater, the cathedral organist. St.
She wouldn't give my letters back, although I went to her and Uncle Garrett and Aunt Clare all of us but it was no good she meant to keep them and of course we knew why. And then, too, I saw at last that I'd behaved like an utter cad it was funny I didn't see it at the time.
A little further along the firing line another was being helped to the rear. The Colt Battery drew the cream of the fire, and Mr. Garrett, one of the experts sent out by the firm, was shot through the ankle, but he continued to work his gun.
I cannot help believing that he was the victim of a foul shot, for in his personal relations I never knew him to court a quarrel or fail to get an adversary. Many a night we have camped, eaten, and slept together. Barring Colonel Fountain, Pat Garrett had stronger intellectuality and broader sympathies than any of his kind I ever met.
The Battalion made no raids; the only one which was attempted against them was on a small scale, and was completely crushed by Sergeant Garrett, of Wokingham, whose good leadership of the post attacked earned him the Military Medal. We suffered no loss, and took one prisoner entangled in the wire.
A ray of light is thus shed on the intellectual and moral life of the time: "1398: Garrett Earl of Desmond or Deas-muma a cheerful and courteous man, who excelled all the Normans and many of the Irish in the knowledge of the Irish language, poetry, history and other learning, died after the victory of peace."
Will you make this sacrifice, Sylvia? Will you let me ask him? It will be a good action. You see he doesn't know any geography." "Very well; ask him, father." Garrett Skinner reached over the table and patted her hand. "Thank you, my dear! Then that's settled. I propose that you and I go down this afternoon. Can you manage it?
"Principally, I fancy," drawled the adjutant, who loved to rub "Old Grumbly's" fur the wrong way, "because you told him two weeks ago that when you wanted advice or information on any subject from him you'd ask it." But while Graham had as yet won no friend in Captain Garrett, he had found many among the troopers.
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