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Having arrived at our allotted area, we get to work. The firing-trench proper is outlined on the turf a hundred yards or so down the reverse slope of a low hill. When it is finished it will be a mere crack in the ground, with no front cover to speak of; for that would make it conspicuous. Number One Platoon gets to work on this.
The company sold out to another concern, or amalgamated with it; I don't remember which." Carroll was not astonished. The news implied that he must be prepared to face a more or less serious financial reverse, and it struck him as a fitting climax to his misadventures. "It's pretty much what I expected," he said. "I'm going to sleep and I don't want to be wakened before it's necessary."
Whether Montreuil really thought you would give over all intention of marrying Isora upon your reverse of fortune, which is likely enough from his estimate of your character; or whether he only wished by any means to obtain my acquiescence in a measure important to his views, I know not, but he never left me, nor ever ceased to sustain my fevered and unhallowed hopes, from the hour in which he first communicated to me the fraudulent substitution of the will till we repaired together to London.
While the malevolent, the trickish, and the grossly sensual, give notice of what they are by the cast of their features, and put their fellow-creatures upon their guard, that they may not be made the prey of these vices. But the march of craniology or phrenology, by whatever name it is called, is directly the reverse of this.
Nor could he save Ganking, which, after being besieged for three years, surrendered to Tseng Kwotsiuen, and thus all hope of succour from the west, or of retreat there, in the last resort, was removed from the hard-beset garrison of Nanking. As some set-off to this reverse, Chung Wang captured the ports of Ningpo and Hangchow, after a gallant defence by a small Manchu garrison.
That such was the reverse of their natural character I now began to feel convinced; and from that evening my heart gradually warmed towards a race whom I found to be frank, warm, and affectionate, beyond any I had ever met with. My interest in them, however, was soon to be placed on another and a firmer basis.
All the splendor and dignity of architectural treatment and decorative ornament that enrich the arches as they face toward the Court of the Universe are repeated on the reverse sides.
You maintain that what you possess is your own: I affirm it is the property of him who wants it most. These are essential differences. Nor are these all, but perhaps they are more than sufficient to end the alliance we were seeking. Not that I desire to end it Far, far the reverse! You, Mr.
For the swallow follows not summer more willingly than men of these dispositions follow the good fortunes of the great, nor more willingly leaves winter than these shrink from the first appearance of a reverse; such summer birds are men.
'It does not follow that I should be a goose for want of ill-nature, said Elizabeth. 'But you say that to be good-natured is to be a goose, said Anne. 'Yes; but good-nature is too poor a thing to be the reverse of ill-nature, said Elizabeth, 'it is only a negative quality. 'I thought good-natured people were those who never used the negative, said Anne, laughing.
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