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It was Cynthia who introduced to my mind the conception of the British Empire, and our race, as a single family, having many branching offshoots. I do not mean that Cynthia supplied facts or theories hitherto unknown to me. But I do mean that her woman's mind first made me feel these things, intimately and personally, as people feel the joys and sorrows of members of their own households.

Personally, I have always thought, and still think, that the Orangeman has more to gain in an Irish Parliament than anyone else as representing the layman, the business man; but I, for one, should be sorry to see Home Rule at the cost of a single Ulster Volunteer's life. Mr.

I don't know the man personally; but Bateman and Knowles and one or two men who do know him say the same. I hear he's been better lately, though, since the Grimmers took Drylands. Perhaps he was lonely, or something like that. He knew very few people then, and it must have been horribly dull for him." "I don't see that there is any excuse in that." Mrs. Richards' voice was unusually severe.

However, if we live we shall learn, and if we don't, it doesn't matter, though personally I think we should be wise to leave Motombo alone and to clear out to Mazitu-land by the first canoe to-morrow morning." "I intend to visit this Motombo," broke in Brother John with decision. "Ditto, ditto," exclaimed Stephen, "but it's no use arguing that all over again." "No," I replied with irritation.

Allow me also to say to you and Mrs Crawley that, if we have been correctly informed as to that other event to which I have alluded, we both hope that we may have an early opportunity of making ourselves personally acquainted with the parents of a young lady who is to be so dear to us. As I have met your daughter, I may perhaps be allowed to send her my kindest love.

"Yes, I think so; her mind is pretty well made up already. It must be a lovely house, judging from what she says about it." It was not very far to Chantilly, and when they reached there the girls were almost sorry that the pleasant ride was ended. The megaphone gentleman informed his personally conducted crowd that they were to alight and eat luncheon before proceeding to the Chateau.

Having readjusted the situation in his own mind, Lambert next day wrote a lengthy letter to Agnes, setting forth his objections to drastic measures. He informed her not quite truthfully that he hoped to be on his feet in twenty-four hours, and then would personally attend to the matter, although he could not say as yet what he intended to do.

You have never been hungry you have never felt the cold you have no children to starve no son to be killed." "I suppose you hold me personally responsible for the strike and for all the hardships that the strikers have brought upon themselves and their families?" said McIver.

They count on the defection of the troops, apparently misled by the talk of individual discontented gabblers among the soldiers; but I think they will make a great mistake. I personally have no occasion to await the thing here, and so to tempt God by asking him to protect me in perils that I have no call to seek. Accordingly, I shall betake my person to a place of safety not later than tomorrow.

That is the new method; the results are not so pretty, but they are more exact." "You have finished your post-graduate work, and I suppose you are about to leave Paris like the others. Have you any plans?" The lecture was over, the audience was pouring out of the theatre, and Adams was talking to Thénard, whom he knew personally. "Well, no," said Adams. "None very fixed just at present.