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For some moments Brading was silent, expecting the narrative to be carried forward to some definite connection with the conversation introducing it; but the narrator was as silent as he, her face averted, her hands clasping and unclasping themselves as they lay in her lap, with a singular suggestion of an activity independent of her will.

At the confession of Peter he takes his place again, and there is a close agreement in the order of the three narratives. The incident of the miracle-worker is omitted by Matthew, and then comes the insertion of a mass of extraneous matter by Luke. When he resumes the thread of the common narrative again all three are together.

Newton entered into a narrative of what had occurred during his passage home, and amused them with his anecdotes and conversation. In about an hour the colonel rose from his chair that he might prepare for dinner; and then it was that Newton perceived the great change which had taken place.

When he again set sail, it was to descend towards the Line, to reach the Moluccas, and to return to England by the Cape of Good Hope. As this part of the voyage deals with countries already known, and as the observations made by Drake are neither numerous nor novel, our narrative here shall be brief.

Then I stood there watching the flock whirring every way into the forest. Must have been thirty-five or forty of them, all gobblers. It was a great sight. And right here I declared myself wild turkey is the game for me." Romer manifestly listened to this narrative with mingled feelings of delight and despair. "Uncle Rome, wild turkey's the game for me, too ... and by Gosh!

When the Brahmin terminated his narrative, the extended map beneath them was already assuming a distinct and varied appearance:

Partly for my friend's sake, therefore, I shall tell the story as what indeed it is a narrative of my own concerning him. With his parents. The lingering, long-drawn-out table d'hote dinner was just over in one of the inns on the cornice road.

But the "Diary of a Schoolmaster," to be read with interest, requires something more than a good basis of facts. He who writes it must have, also, graphic and narrative powers a special gift, of which nature has been sparing to me.

"But suppose I were to write a simple narrative of the principal events in the histories of the three families, which no one is more able to do than myself, seeing that nothing important has ever happened without my hearing of it, how, I say, would you like that?" "If it amused you to write it, I am sure it would amuse us to read it," said the major.

The slight sketch of the story which we give does not aim at such critical correctness; we merely indicate the outline of a narrative which is one of the principal sources of the strength of the religion. The Story of the Founder. The founder's family name was Gautama, and by that name he was commonly known during his lifetime. The personal name given him as a child was Siddartha.