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Old times were ransacked and Christmas experiences in them were given without stint, and the season was voted, without dissent, to have been far ahead of Christmas now. Presently, one of the party said: "Did any of you ever spend a Christmas on the cars? If you have not, thank Heaven, and pray to be preserved from it henceforth, for I've done it, and I tell you it's next to purgatory.
Life in hiding was purgatory. There wasn't anything I could let anybody do for me. Monny Gilder's different. You'll soon see why." I smiled indulgently. But, though I was to be introduced to Miss Gilder for the purpose of being eventually gilded by her, at the instant my thoughts were for my childhood's sweetheart.
A group of little girls stared in amazement at his courage, but trembled when they heard his mother predict a broken neck purgatory and the devil as his portion. The dog was as excited as the boy he didn't bark, but he whimpered as he gazed upon him, as if he would like to jump up and be with him, or to assure him he would catch him if he fell, if he had but the power to do so.
He is of course unaware of the heart-burnings in Margaret's breast, or the apology would have been more than a mere society speech. "You are alone?" Here poor Margaret's purgatory begins Margaret, who is the soul of truth. "Well, you can see!" says she, spreading out her hands and giving a comprehensive glance round her a glance that rests as if stricken on the screen.
The Papist threatened us with Purgatory, and fleeched us with pardons the Protestant mints at us with his sword, and cuttles us with the liberty of conscience; but never a one of either says, 'Peter, there is your penny. I am well tired of all this, and for no man shall the bridge fall that pays me not ready money; and I would have you know I care as little for Geneva as for Rome as little for homilies as for pardons; and the silver pennies are the only passports I will hear of."
We have noted misappropriations of this sort, beside those already mentioned, in Cantos II. and III. of the "Purgatory," and in Cantos I., II., XV., XVI., XVIII., XIX., and XXIII., of the "Paradise." There are undoubtedly others which have not attracted our attention. We have now finished our exposure of the false pretences of these volumes, and of the character of their author.
'All these indulgences, it appeared, 'are applicable to souls in purgatory. For God's sake, ye ladies of Creil, apply them all to the souls in purgatory without delay! Burns would take no hire for his last songs, preferring to serve his country out of unmixed love.
I did not create the American claimant to the earldom of Rossmore; I did not hunt for him, did not find him, did not obtrude him upon your notice. He found himself, he injected himself into our lives " "And has made mine a purgatory for ten years with his tiresome letters, his wordy reasonings, his acres of tedious evidence, " "Which you would never read, would never consent to read.
Crammer, paced the somewhat severe apartment known publicly as the "reception parlor" and privately to the pupils as "purgatory." His keen eyes had taken in the various rigid details, from the flat steam "radiator," like an enormous japanned soda cracker, that heated one end of the room to the monumental bust of Dr.
What can those wretches have done to be so whipped; and how does that one man who goes along there whistling dare to whip so many? I declare this is hell, or at least purgatory!"
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