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It is true, the secret has been kept from her. Eugene had the grace to swear Laura and madame to secrecy; and Marcia not being at home when Mrs. Grandon became possessor of it, a little fear of Floyd kept her from confiding it to this untrustworthy member of the family. "And you would have married her?" cries Marcia, jealously. "The fortune might have tempted me.
Susy heard steps on the door-stone, and rushed out, with the joyful story on her lips. It proved to be not her father, but callers, who were just ringing the bell; and they heard Susy's exclamation, "O, have you heard? Grace has a new sister, a baby sister, as true as you live!" with the most provoking coolness. But when Mr.
Did I not order that new livery coats should be made for you lackeys before our removal from Königsberg?" "It was done, your Electoral Grace, we received our new livery coats before we left Königsberg." "Well, then, where are the old ones?"
Fenellan, in a musing exclamation, that was quite spontaneous, had put a picture on the departing Skepsey, as observed from an end of the Lakelands upper terrace-walk. 'Queer little water-wagtail it is! And Lady Grace Halley and Miss Graves and Mrs.
And, what is more, I offer to depart with those that come, whether they be few or many, this being the easiest, shortest, and quickest remedy for what his grace says he wishes and desires namely, that I should leave this land free and unembarrassed.
His Grace of Winterset's features were set awry to a sinister pattern. He sat glaring at his companion in a snarling silence. "Money? Pouf!" snapped the little gambler. "No, no, no! It is that M. le Duc, impoverish', somewhat in a bad odor as he is, yet command the entree any-where onless I Ha, ha! Eh, monsieur?" "Ha! You dare think to force me "
Scarce one of forty among them know what it is to be born again, to have communion with the Father through the Son; to feel the power of grace sanctifying their hearts: but for all their prayers, they still live cursed, drunken, whorish, and abominable lives, full of malice, envy, deceit, persecuting of the dear children of God.
It has always seemed to me as a wonderful triumph of divine grace in the Apostle Paul that he should have been so "content in whatsoever state he was" when he was a homeless, and, I fear, also a wifeless man.
And now he was face to face with the awful, the glorious, the divinely ordained fact. It was like standing before the Throne of Grace itself.
Hence, even with a genial sun and a southern climate, the fields were barren, the crops poor and the people sunk in abject poverty. The dilapidated inn, or kretschma, was known in the vicinity by the ideal and appropriate name of "Paradise" appropriate, because in it many a sinner had been tempted and had fallen from grace. It was the popular rendezvous of the village peasants.
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