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Vague, half-blind remembrances of walks, with my tall cousins waving like trees above me, pleasant noisy evenings in a great room on the ground- floor, faint silver-points of excursions into the country, all this is the very pale and shadowy testimony to a brief interval of healthy, happy child-life, when my hard-driven soul was allowed to have, for a little while, no history.
But when he was taken down and died, the doctor's bills and the undertaker's used up what little money I had put by, and the sewin' alone wouldn't keep a healthy canary in bird seed. Dear land knows I hate to leave the old house I've lived in for fourteen years and the town I was born in, but I've got to, for all I see.
Basil's austerities or rather the severe climate of the Black Sea forests brought him to an early grave. But his short life was spent well enough. He was a poet, with an eye for the beauty of Nature especially for the beauty of the sea most rare in those times; and his works are full of descriptions of scenery as healthy- minded as they are vivid and graceful.
Then we have bought new machinery for breaking palm nuts and extracting the kernels and have fixed a site for the building at a dry, sandy spot. I don't claim the neighborhood's healthy, but it's healthier than this, and we have inquired about an engineer. Would you like the post?" "I think not. I'm Cartwright's man. I've taken his pay." Montgomery smiled ironically. "Let's be frank!
The wound, in spite of the hard treatment which it received, closed and healed by the first intention proving the healthy habit of body engendered by temperance and constant exercise in the open air.
There is nothing to do about it; the only thing is to keep the loss within limits. In a few generations we shall probably experience a renaissance; everything comes in cycles. But for the present we are sadly denuded. Only our business life beats with a healthy, strong pulse. Only our commerce lives its deed-filled life. Let us place our faith in that! From it will the newer Norway spring!"
Still, I always was healthy. The real reason why I stopped was a circumstance that happened two years ago." "What was that?"
His advice, after some opposition, was acted on, and thus the mails came to travel six miles an hour, instead of three or four the result being an immediate increase of correspondence, despite an increase of postage. Rapidity, security, regularity, economy, are the great requisites in a healthy postal system. Here, then, was an advance in at least two of these.
They were mostly youths, from sixteen to twenty years of age, and seemed little to forebode their probable fate. In looking on their fresh, healthy faces and bounding forms, I saw also a dim and ghastly vision of bones whitening on the desert, of men perishing with heat and fever, or stricken down by the aim of the savage Bedouin.
Well, he's a healthy old spirit." Emily laughed until the tears came into her eyes. "The pig!" she cried. "Oh, Aunt Thankful! You and I were frightened almost to death last night and of that creature there. Oh, dear me!" Thankful laughed, too, but she was not fully convinced. "Maybe 'twas the pig that snored," she admitted. "And of course whatever we heard came up that pipe hole.
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