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The visitors to the Belleville farm chiefly old and new anti-slavery friends were numerous, and were always received with a cordiality which left no room to doubt its sincerity. At one time they received into their family a poor young man from Jamaica, personally a stranger, but of whose labors as a self-appointed missionary among the recently emancipated slaves of the West Indies they had heard.
"Yes, yes," was the quick answer of the fickle crowd. "You desire the suppression of the cueillotte, do you not?" "Yes, yes." "You want all your gates opened again, your banners restored, and your privileges reinforced as of yore?" "Yes, yes." The self-appointed envoy turned calmly to Charles and said: "Monseigneur, this is what the citizens have come together to ask you. This is your task.
"You should take an interest in everyone," this self-appointed evangelist had declared, and in one sense she lived up to her creed. She permitted no scrap of information about people to escape her, and was not only versed in all the gossip of Oakville, but also of several other localities in which she visited.
England and America, in the person of their respective naval commanders, vied with one another in their self-appointed task; and while the Germans stood aloof, protesting and aghast, our ships ravaged the Samoan coast, burning, bombarding, and destroying with indiscriminate fury.
"I'd like to call him Dionysius if he was mine," she confided to Carrie, who soon joined her in her self-appointed task of nursemaid, for the two girls were seldom apart; "but after that time well, he might not like it when he grew up. I am afraid it might be unlucky." "Frederick is a pretty name," ventured Carrie. "That's papa's." "Yes, that's not bad, but I reckon Mrs.
Yes, it was a busy day and a busy week for Mary; but somehow she felt a glory in every minute of it even, I think, as Molly Pitcher gloried in her self-appointed task so many years ago. And when at the close of each day, she locked her desk, she grew into the habit of glancing up and nodding at the portraits on the walls a glance and a nod that seemed to say, "That's us!"
The result was that many of them burned and smarted under the ordeal. One of the victims went so far as to propose that this self-appointed censor of public characters should be fought with his own weapons, and have a taste of his own nasty physic. In a word it was suggested that someone should draw Mr. H.J. Jennings' portrait on his own lines after his own manner. Mr.
They entered upon their self-appointed task with a fine fervor, but, as Miss Benham had suggested, with no other qualifications in particular. Ste. He argued that this was the way it happened in books, and that surely people didn't write books about things of which they were ignorant. Hartley, on the other hand, preferred the newer, or scientific, methods.
Nora being absent on some self-appointed business of her own, the maid who had brought in the tea, and one of the very damp papers which the boys were still crying below, left the room with some abruptness to see what was demanded below and who was clamoring for admission.
By this self-appointed tribunal, the grievances of the Protestants were discussed, their rights and privileges decided, and even the fate of religions determined, without the presence of those who were most deeply interested in it. Between them, a general peace was resolved on, and it was to be enforced by an imperial army of execution, as a formal decree of the Empire.
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