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In the very middle of a paragraph of concessions and stipulations occur the words: 'It is also to be understood that Her Majesty's Government will by no means object to its forming part of the plan which may be determined upon, that it should include a provision for establishing a communication between the projected railway and the railways of the United States. Grey afterwards stated 'that nothing further was contemplated in that passage than that Her Majesty's Government would sanction such a provision for this purpose as the legislature of New Brunswick may deem expedient to make upon its own liabilities. A lamer excuse has rarely been penned.
Not half an hour after throwing away his crutch, he leaped a great ditch ten feet wide, and of undiscoverable muddy depth. I wonder if the old cripple would think me the lamer one now, thought Israel to himself, arriving on the hither side. At nightfall, on the third day, Israel had arrived within sixteen miles of the capital. Once more he sought refuge in a barn.
Prudy liked to be pitied for every small hurt; and when Susy had a sore throat, and wore a compress, she looked upon her with envy, and felt it almost as a personal slight that her throat could not be wrapped in a compress too. On their way they met "lame Jessie," a little girl with crooked spine and very high shoulders, who hobbled along on crutches. "She's lamer than me," said Prudy.
"I think we had better walk for the present," suggested Tad. "We shall stiffen up if we ride in our present overheated condition." Ned nodded. "I can't be much lamer than I am. I feel as if I had a broken hinge in my back," he declared. They started on, moving with extreme care that they might not meet with another such disaster.
He paused at last, for it was being borne in upon his joy-blended senses that his chum, who had always heretofore rejoiced when he rejoiced, was making no response. "It'll be good practice for my first year, don't you think?" he asked rather lamely. "Oh, yes, I suppose so." Charles Stuart's answer was even lamer. John emerged from his room bearing the captured slippers.
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