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Odo had appointed to leave Turin some two weeks after Trescorre's departure; but the preparations for a young gentleman's travels were in those days a momentous business, and one not to be discharged without vexatious postponements.
Haven't you seen her so dumb at times? But nothing comes to pass and when will there be anything? She gets her grumpy spells over these postponements always postponements. You know young people are impatient. They don't understand such things. She wants to marry. Every young girl wants to marry and have children. I may die. My husband may die at any time. And she won't be settled for life."
"Forever," said the doctor, meaning to comfort him. "No!" gasped Eddie. "Let me congratulate you, Mr. Ten Eyck. She is quite rational now and pardon me if I repeat a sick-room secret she declares that there shall be no postponement of the wedding. She is superstitious about postponements." Eddie hesitated. "Ahem! Is is she emaciated?" "No more than might be expected."
Alfred went back to Oxford to read for his first class, and Julia to her district visiting, while the terrible delays of the law went on. Alfred had begun to believe trial by jury would never be allowed him, and when at last, after many postponements, the trial did come on, he was being examined in the schools, and refused to come till his counsel had actually opened the case. Mr.
And the chapter dealing with this phase of the question I have called "The Case against Germany." Whatever further complications and postponements may arise, there will certainly come a time of recovery and reconstruction on a wide and extended scale over Europe and a large part of the world.
Put aside all thought of things I have said, and don't be restrained by any fear lest you should seem to me unwomanly you can't be that. What is your own wish? What do you really wish to do, now that there is no uncertainty calling for postponements? Marian raised her eyes, and was about to speak as she regarded him; but with the first accent her look fell. 'I wish to be your wife.
Young adventurers like Charles, who wish to marry great heiresses, have always to exercise a great deal of patience, and to submit to a great many postponements and delays, even though they are successful in the end; and sovereign princes are not excepted, any more than other men, from this necessity.
To vary the experiment, I had often thought of trying a personal reconnaissance by swimming, at a certain point, whenever circumstances should make it an object. The opportunity at last arrived, and I shall never forget the glee with which, after several postponements, I finally rode forth, a little before midnight, on a night which seemed made for the purpose.
At last, when they had, after two postponements, fixed a day of departure, a storm that tied up shipping all along the North Atlantic Coast for four days caused a final delay, and consequently it was well toward the last of August when they said good-bye and set forth for Squirrel Island.
For thirteen years the heart of the venerable Serra was made sick by the postponements in the founding of this Mission.
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