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"I am very grateful to you for coming," Dominey replied, with obvious sincerity. "You will come and have a look at the patient in a day or two?" "I'll stroll across as soon as you've got rid of some of this houseful," the doctor promised. "Good night!"
Kirkham was invited over from town "to stay as long as she liked," and now for a week there had been visitors from up country Mrs. Burrage and Sadie. It made quite a houseful and Fong, with a new second boy to break in, was exceedingly busy. He had brushed aside Lorry's suggestion that with half the city in ruins and nobody caring what they ate, simple meals would suffice.
"I hope so," I answered confidently, glancing away to where she stood talking to Mr. de Valentin on the piazza steps. "I shall treat you then," she declared, "as one of the family. To-night, after dinner, we are going to hold the meeting for which this houseful of people was really brought together. I invite you to come to it. Afterwards you will understand everything!
It seems a terrible thing to stand up there before a houseful, of people, most of them good, and clean, and full of faith, and try to direct their steps in the broader road. I sometimes feel that men are not fit for it. There ought to be angels from Heaven." "But there are angels from Heaven watching over them, David, guiding them, showing them how.
She would be his before very long, she loved him, everything pointed that way. The conquest of this haughty queen of the society would be his one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates." Chatelet talked of his passion in the tone of a man who would have a rival's life if he crossed his path.
"Well, we've got a pretty good houseful already," said Willard thoughtfully. "But I suppose if Aunt Josephina wants to come we'd better have her. I always liked Aunt Josephina, and so did Mother, you know." "I don't know where we can put her. We haven't any spare room, Will." "Ray and I can sleep in the kitchen loft. You and Dolly take our room, and let Aunt Josephina take yours."
And his wife died at the same time the whole houseful of them, and this is the only boy that was left." The MS. of "Almayer's Folly" was reposing in the bag under our feet. I saw again the sun setting on the plains as I saw it in the travels of my childhood. It set, clear and red, dipping into the snow in full view as if it were setting on the sea.
I like her as much as I could like a sister; and she likes me as if I were her brother her younger brother. I could see my father's countenance fall a little. 'You see she's so clever she's more like a man than a woman she knows Latin and Greek. 'She'd forget 'em, if she'd a houseful of children, was my father's comment on this.
"Yes, he seems better, and, contrary to all expectation, seems likely to live for some time yet. But his mind is much affected. At least it seems so to me." "Poor Lilias!" said Graeme, "Is she still alone?" "Oh, no. There is a houseful of them. Her aunt Mrs Roxbury is there, and I don't know how many besides. I declare, I think those women enjoy it." Graeme looked shocked.
They went away under the domination of that idea of pure and spiritual faith, which kept a whole houseful of men silent for an hour in communion. As I have looked into this matter it has seemed to me that the induction to be drawn from the history of Quaker Hill is this: Religion was a true organizing power for this social population. Whatever the meeting determinedly strove to do it accomplished.
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