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Updated: May 29, 2025
He had promised, long years before, on the eve of entering upon the real battle of life, that he would not return until he was a Captain, and may-be an owner, and he now presented himself with pride and modesty at the old homestead, thronged with a vast number of friends who came to welcome and congratulate him on having become both.
Is not I sometimes question the first, last, and most important quality of all, in training for a "finish'd speaker," generally unsought, unreck'd of, both by teacher and pupil? Though may-be it cannot be taught, anyhow. At any rate, we need to clearly understand the distinction between oratory and elocution.
I thought my friend Barty, was a better Irishman than it seems he is!" "I'm as good an Irishman as any man!" said Barty, in a sudden blaze, "and may-be better than some!" His face had turned white, and his eyes, that were as large and dark as his mother's, met those of Father Greer with the courage of anger. "What harm is it to want to get a better education than what I have?
'Sylvie, she began at length, 'did I e'er tell thee on Nancy Hartley as I knew when I were a child? I'm thinking a deal on her to-night; may-be it's because I've been dreaming on yon old times. She was a bonny lass as ever were seen, I've heerd folk say; but that were afore I knew her.
Well, she went to him he's a kind of office at Dunmore, my lord." "Oh, I know him and his office! He knows the value of a name at the back of a bit of paper, as well as any one." "May-be he does, my lord; but he's an honest old fellow, is Moylan, and manages a little for mother." "Oh, of course he's honest, Martin, because he belongs to you. You know Barry's to be an honest chap, then."
While I write, I hear an oriole gay as in June, and the plaintive may-be of the goldfinch tells me he is stealing my lettuce-seeds. I know not what the experience of others may have been, but the only bird I have ever hard sing in the night has been the chip-bird. I should say he sang about as often during the darkness as cocks crow. One can hardly help fancying that he sings in his dreams.
By this time he had become somewhat more friendly towards me, and if in the mood would talk for a brief while. "Were any other prisoners tried on Wednesday as spies?" I asked innocently. "Jah! All day!" "How many?" "May-be twenty-three!" "How many have been shot?" "Ach! I cannot give prisoners news of that kind. But I can tell you that there are three left, and you are one of them!"
'It IS frightening to be very ill, isn't it? she said. 'It isn't pleasant, he said. 'Whether one is really afraid of death, or not, I have never decided. In one mood, not a bit, in another, very much. 'But doesn't it make you feel ashamed? I think it makes one so ashamed, to be ill illness is so terribly humiliating, don't you think? He considered for some minutes. 'May-be, he said.
Then, of course, there was a fire in the best parlor, and there were all the older cousins, telling conundrums and stories, and playing grown-up games, and some two, or four, may-be, looking out in couples at the moonshine, from behind the curtains, Sue James, perhaps, and John. Sue was so pretty!
You can't change your face; and I'm glad of it, for it is Anny's face, and I wouldn't have it changed a mite: there'll always be two people to think it's sightly enough, and may-be more by-and-by; so I wouldn't quarrel with it, if I was you." Major's happy eyes always helped me. I looked at her and felt better.
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