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I demand that your son apologize to me for his actions or I shall make a complaint to the authorities." "Hamilton, what does this mean?" demanded Mr. Spink, after perusing the communication several times. "I don't know," answered the undutiful offspring brazenly. "Did you snowball Mr. Felps?" "No. I didn't snowball anybody." "He says you did." "He must be mistaken."

I have endeavoured to be neither superfluously copious, nor scrupulously reserved, and hope that I have made my authour's meaning accessible to many who before were frighted from perusing him, and contributed something to the publick, by diffusing innocent and rational pleasure.

Nor is this strange, when we reflect that the reading of even a standard medical work has a tendency to excite belief in the reader that he is afflicted with the malady whose grim description he is perusing. His apprehension being alarmed and his imagination excited, he has no difficulty in detecting all or a great many of the symptoms in himself, although at the same time none of them may exist.

It is said, however, by some historians, that this letter was a forgery, and that it was written by some of Strafford's enemies to lead the king to resist no longer. The reader, by perusing the letter again, can perhaps form some judgment whether such a document was more likely to have been fabricated by enemies, or really written by the unhappy prisoner himself.

He found an interesting book about the buccaneers of the Spanish Main, so, lying down on the sofa, he was soon lost in the volume, and forgot that he was in durance vile. Planticrü, a circular enclosure. When Mr. Neeven returned to his house the Laird of Boden was with him, and Tom was desired to hand over Dr. Holtum's letter, which he did with alacrity. After perusing it carefully, Mr.

That honest divine had just resumed for an instant his pacific habits, and was perusing an ancient theological treatise, with a pipe in his mouth, and a small jug of ale beside him, to assist his digestion of the argument.

It was very brief, and hastily perusing its contents Maude cast it from her with a cry of horror and disgust then catching it up, she moaned, "Oh, must I go! I can't! I can't!" "What is it?" asked Mr. De Vere, and pointing to the lines Maude bade him read.

It is that Captain Thorn who is staying here with John Herbert." Mr. Carlyle raised his eyes, and they encountered those of the old man; a peculiar expression was in the face of both. Mr. Carlyle glanced down at the parchment he was perusing, as if calculating his time. Then he looked up again and spoke. "I will see him, Dill. Send him in." The business leading to the visit was quite simple.

Exclusive of these, are many elegant retreats of our first inhabitants, acquired by commercial success. Full fed with vanity is an author, when two readers strive to catch up his work, for the pleasure of perusing it: but, perchance, if two readers dip into this chapter, they may strive to lay it down.

How I advanced from the fairy tales to Shakespeare, what stages there were on the way for there must have been stages is a thing that memory cannot recover. A nursery legend tells that I was wont to arrange six open books on six chairs, and go from one to the others, perusing them by turns.