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My mother had a defence more powerful even than her virtue; she tenderly loved my father, and conjured him to return; his inclination seconding his request, he gave up every prospect of emolument, and hastened to Geneva. I was the unfortunate fruit of this return, being born ten months after, in a very weakly and infirm state; my birth cost my mother her life, and was the first of my misfortunes.
The weakness of the greatest monarchs, during this age, in their military expeditions against their nearest neighbours, appears the more surprising, when we consider the prodigious numbers which even petty princes, seconding the enthusiastic rage of the people, were able to assemble, and to conduct in dangerous enterprises to the remote provinces of Asia.
Tuckham to her for a husband, by her father's authority, and with his own warm seconding. He had not dropped her hand: he was very eloquent, a masterly advocate: he pleaded her father's cause; it was not put to her as Mr. Tuckham's: her father had set his heart on this union he was awaiting her decision. 'Is it so urgent? she asked. 'It is urgent. It saves him from an annoyance.
Instantly Bridge leaped to his feet. Without a word he tore the bed from before the door. "What are you doing?" cried the girl in a muffled scream. "I am going down to that woman," said Bridge, and he drew the bolt, rusty and complaining, from its corroded seat. "No!" screamed the girl, and seconding her the youth sprang to his feet and threw his arms about Bridge. "Please! Please!" he cried.
Your second request, namely, for a man capable of understanding and seconding your projects, requires me to find you a rara avis such as we seldom raise in the provinces, where, if we do raise them, we never keep them. The education of that high product is too slow and too risky a speculation for country folks. Besides, men of intellect alarm us; we call them "originals."
"Or more," said Mollie, seconding the plan with enthusiasm, "Come on. Let's tell Mrs. Irving where we are going. Maybe she will wish to go along, but I doubt it." Mollie was right: Mrs. Irving did not wish to go, and the girls rushed upstairs to don bathing suits in preparation for the lark.
He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn, "Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no more. He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby night. Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state.
"Indeed you have," said the latter, seconding her sister's remark. "I don't believe even yourself can quite realize what the difference is. My! it is very nice for the rest of us, but it must be a perfect killing bore for you." "I have found it rather trying at times," said John; "but now you are so kind it is beginning to appear to me as the most delightful of pursuits."
"I move you, Madam President," said Tom when the meal was nearly over, "that we extend a vote of thanks to the cooks for this delicious nourishment." "I was just on the point of making that motion," laughed Edward Watkins. "And I of seconding it," cried Miss Merriam. "It would come more appropriately from us." "You were far too slow," retorted Tom. "I couldn't wait for you."
He farther assured him that the Count de Guebriant was already on his march to join the Duke of Weymar, and he was going to give orders for sending an additional reinforcement, and seconding that Prince's efforts.
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