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The lieutenant stopped again, and the dog looked up in his master's face; but it appeared as if the current of his master's thoughts was changed, for the current of keen air reminded Mr Vanslyperken that he had not yet had his breakfast.

"Some of those seminary children are only a year younger than I am," she reminded him. "But if you would like to rehearse your part with me you'll have to go find Allan. All your scenes are with him." "Allan has a well-trained wife and a lock on his door," said John, who didn't in the least need to rehearse. "I have neither.

As we advanced higher up the valley we were strongly reminded of the words of a French writer: "Sometimes in leaving a gorge our attention was absorbed by a beautiful meadow. A strange intermixture of wild and cultivated nature met our eye everywhere, betraying the hand of man where one would have thought it impossible for him to penetrate.

The danger which seemed so terrible to many honest friends of liberty he did not venture to pronounce altogether visionary. But he reminded his countrymen that a choice between dangers was sometimes all that was left to the wisest of mankind. No lawgiver had ever been able to devise a perfect and immortal form of government.

Several of the ladies declared that they should be delighted they hoped that Miss Tarrant was in good trim; whereupon they were corrected by others, who reminded them that it wasn't her she had nothing to do with it so her trim didn't matter; and a gentleman added that he guessed there were many present who had conversed with Eliza P. Moseley.

"Why, haven't you said as much yourself? haven't you put your finger on that awful possibility?" She had a way now, with his felicities, that made him enjoy being reminded of them. "In speaking of your having always had such a 'mash' ?" "Such a mash, precisely, for the man I was to help to put so splendidly at his ease.

Fernand saw this, and when he learned of the old man's death he returned. He was now a lieutenant. At his first coming he had not said a word of love to Mercedes; at the second he reminded her that he loved her. Mercedes begged for six months more in which to await and mourn for Edmond." "So that," said the abbe, with a bitter smile, "that makes eighteen months in all.

What's-his-name, is a strange, deep, perusing gentleman; and there's good reason for supposing he has sold his soul to the wicked one." "'Od name it all," murmured the timber-merchant, unimpressed by the news, but reminded of other things by the subject of it; "I've got to meet a gentleman this very morning? and yet I've planned to go to Sherton Abbas for the maid."

Now, I cannot quite tell the train of thought which the sight of that action aroused in my mind, but I think that it was something after this fashion. The waving of that kerchief reminded me of the waving of a flag, and the moment that the word flag came into my mind I suddenly remembered what it was that I had been trying to remember through all those weary hours.

"Yes and it may take a sudden spurt and drop three or four dollars," his father reminded him. Bryce laughed. "That would be Pennington's funeral, Dad. And whether the market goes up or comes down, it costs us nothing to make the experiment." "Quite true." his father agreed.