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Having delivered this ultimatum, she went on and told of the Indian Drill and of the costumes, and then of her father's recent purchase of the shoes. "I can't tell daddy that the shoes would be different from everybody's else," she said, "because it will hurt his feelings. But, oh, Drusilla! My heart jumps into my throat when I think of wearing those shoes so different from everyone else's."
When the associates, now with more confidence, applied to him for patronage in an undertaking too vast for their individual resources, he coldly replied, "He had no desire to build up other states at the expense of his own; nor would he be led to throw away more lives than had already been sacrificed by the cheap display of gold and silver toys and a few Indian sheep!" 26
Many of them resolved, as soon as parliament had rejected the bill, to abstain from the use of West Indian produce.
Then, satisfied by the scrutiny he opened his hunting frock, taking forth a long object which he thrust toward Metzar. It was an Indian arrow. Metzar's dull gaze traveled from this to the ominous face of Brandt. "See there, you! Look at this arrow! Shot by the best Indian on the border into the window of my room. I hadn't been there a minute when it came from the island.
Of course I told him that, under any circumstances, we were very glad to see him; and it at once occurred to me, that should our captive Indian be still alive, the doctor might by his superior skill assist to cure him. "I have a grand remedy, which, if he has still some breath in his body, is almost sure to succeed," he answered. "What is it?" I asked. "To let nature take its course," he replied.
"None of us knew it at the time; but there are events in life that, like certain short and sharp diseases, leave us all the better when they have passed, though their severity may try us cruelly at the time." The Indian summer day was drawing to a close, and Bosko entered to close the windows and pull down the blinds.
Upon the future of these works will probably depend for many years to come the success of the metallurgical and other kindred industries of India, and it is to be hoped that Government will be allowed to give them all reasonable assistance without interference from home. Another purely Indian enterprise also under the auspices of Messrs.
The smaller fry of Channel shipping have crept into Dungeness or the Downs. Some of them have gone to the bottom. Two of them are breaking up on the Goodwins. The Croonah Indian liner is pounding into it all, with white decks and whistling shrouds. The passengers are below in their berths.
He urged her to lay bare her heart, and she laid it bare. One evening it was heavenly moonlight on the Indian Ocean, and they were two days past Aden, on the long southeast run to Ceylon she came and stood before him with a small packet in her hand.
For others, now, the paths he had hewn and made safe; for Boone once more the wilderness road. Indian law, tradition, and even superstition had shaped the conditions which the pioneers faced when they crossed the mountains.
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