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It became her exceedingly, and the decision of her movements, the white serenity of her brow, dazzled me as if I had never seen her before. She seemed less childlike, older, ripe for this adventure in a new development of strength and courage. She inclined her head slowly at the gaping sailors, who had taken their caps off.
It was not long before the elder Balcom also arrived. "Good afternoon, my children," he greeted, jovially. "I'm just a bit ahead of time, I imagine. But why you children don't leave dry matters of business to us older heads I'm blessed if I know." "Mr.
After the rapture of meeting, and after that odd feeling of unsatisfied expectation the feeling that "everything is just the same, so why did I hurry?" Nicholas began to settle down in his old home world. His father and mother were much the same, only a little older.
The colonists, however, were still discreet, and in a week something else occurred to draw the attention of the multitude, and the unexpected visit was soon regarded like any other visit. Glad enough, notwithstanding, were the near relatives of Bridget and Anne, in particular, to see those two fine young women again. Neither appeared much more than a twelvemonth older than when she went away.
In many families, however, the youngsters are more ready for solid reading than the older people. It is often the elder sister who has to give up her German and science to read travels and stories to her parents as well as to the children.
They are older than the foundation of the world, for they are those of the Creative Spirit itself; and all through the ages this teaching has been handed down under various forms, the true meaning of which has been perceived only by a few in each generation. But as the light breaks in upon any individual it is a new light to him, and so to each one in succession it becomes the New Thought.
I sat on the back seat of the carriage, near a very nice young lady, about my dear Mary's age that is to say, seventeen and three-quarters; and opposite us sat the old Countess and her other grand-daughter handsome too, but ten years older.
Perhaps they seem older to me because they have had a lot of responsibility that has made them older. It's too bad." "Never mind, Colonel," said Porky. "If the other fellows have fallen in luck, why, it's great for them. What, are you planning for them?" "It's like this," said Colonel Bright, squinting up his eye as he puffed busily on his cigar.
"Suppose I don't reach that limit?" "I shall at all events feel that you have done your best. I will instruct you a little in your duties between now and the time of your departure. I should myself like to go in your stead, but I am needed here. There are, of course, others in my employ, older than yourself, whom I might send, but I have an idea that you will prove to be a good salesman."
Why, Mary Beats is very little older than I. You'll have to put your foot down about it, you will, indeed, Paul. Yes, you will. Give Linda Maxse an inch and she takes a mile, I always said and this is just the kind of thing ..."
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