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They were mostly men in Jay's 'bus at that moment; they were almost all alike, and all insignificant, but not one of them knew it. Such a lot of men could never be loved by women, only found expedient. But there was a sailor, a simple sub-lieutenant, sitting by the door. Sailors are a race apart. They have twisty faces, their boots and gloves look curiously accidental.
These details are not unimportant. Forty-five years afterward Madison wrote that "his main object, in returning to Congress at this time, was to bring about, if possible, the canceling of Mr. Jay's project for shutting the Mississippi."
Yet even such delights had their hour of culmination, and Aristides found himself at high noon back on the road again in a state of feverish excitement, carrying a ravished jay's nest, two pine cones, a dead hare, and a plume of the white syringa.
Jay's biographer adds "On this letter is the following endorsement in the governor's hand, Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt."
Looking at the pallid features, another thought struck her. 'Let us heap up snow round the wounded foot and leg; I'm sure the cold must be good for it; and, with the axe for their only shovel, the two girls gathered a pile of frozen snow, as a cushion and covering to the limb 'Oh, if Edith were here! if Edith were here! being Jay's suppressed cry.
Jay's copulative argues more strongly, that, in his judgment, they refer to different things. The law of Congress constituting the "Territory of Orleans," was enacted in 1804. It fully recognizes the power of that body to prohibit the trade in slaves between a territory and the states.
A jay's gifts, and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise. The sacredness of an obligation is such a thing which you can't cram into no bluejay's head.
Bernardine complied; but before she could answer these commonplace, courteous remarks, an inner door opened, and a lady, neither very young nor very old, entered the room. "Good-morning, mamma," she said; and by that remark Bernardine knew that this was Jay's sister. She almost devoured her with eager eyes, trying to trace a resemblance in her features to her handsome brother.
Jay's biographer adds "On this letter is the following endorsement in the governor's hand, Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt."
The eagle then said, 'He could by no means admit a plea, which as plainly appeared to be counterfeit, as were the jay's borrowed feathers. The owl, thus disappointed, flew away, and has ever since shunned the light of the sun, and has never appeared in the daytime, but to be scorned and wondered at.
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