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The benefits derived from this expedition, in the destruction of the Southside and Danville railroads, were considered by General Grant as equivalent for the losses sustained in Wilson's defeat, for the wrecking of the railroads and cars was most complete, occasioning at this, time serious embarrassment to the Confederate Government; but I doubt if all this compensated for the artillery and prisoners that fell into the hands of the enemy in the swamps of Hatcher's Run and Rowanty Creek.
The beauty of a classic is not at all apt to knock you down. It will steal over you, rather. Many serious students are, I am convinced, discouraged in the early stages because they are expecting a wrong kind of pleasure. They have abandoned Worcester sauce, and they miss it.
He then took his feet off the chair and laid them on the ground, and put the empty bottle under the animal's neck. But he had no sooner done all this than he had a serious misgiving. Would not this man's death have been a blessing? Might not his life prove fatal?
But time will help you, and your interests will come back again." "True. On the other hand, it is equally true that I am now seeing how little those interests really amount to. They are pastime, if you like, but nothing more. Some women do serious work, however; I wish I could be one of them. To them, perhaps, 'views' are something real and helpful.
An hour later Oscar met Cad, who wore a very serious look upon her face, and she waited for a little time, when with a glitter in her eyes she demanded: "Who was that creature you dined with to-day?" Oscar laughed in a merry way. He read the thoughts that were chasing through Cad's mind, or, rather, he imagined he did so. "Did you see her, Cad?" "Yes." "Did you mark her beautiful, innocent face?"
Now that Orleans was in daily peril of falling into the hands of the English, and with Paris and Rouen in their hold, the wretched sovereign had serious thoughts of leaving his ever-narrowing territory and taking refuge either in Spain or in Scotland. Up to this time in his life Charles had shown little strength of character. His existence was passed among a set of idle courtiers.
Just when they were about to lose sight of the port, the baronet turned, and pausing as if to get a last view, said in a tone of more serious feeling "And about the main business of your coming to Genoa, Dan? You have not been deeply pained by anything you have learned, I hope? There is nothing that you feel need change your position in any way?
Texas, for reasons deemed sufficient by herself, threw off her dependence on Mexico as far back as 1836, and consummated her independence by the battle of San Jacinto in the same year, since which period Mexico has attempted no serious invasion of her territory, but the contest has assumed features of a mere border war, characterized by acts revolting to humanity.
"It was nothing; you did not know you did it " "But here hold on this is serious. DID I kiss YOU? You are sure you are not dreaming?" "I would not be very likely to dream that," she said, with a strange smile. "But of course it was only at such a time as you would have kissed your sister anybody. Your very forgetting it shows that."
Earlier in the season Grogan's delay would not have been so serious. But one northeaster as yet had struck the work. This had carried away some of the upper planking the false work of the coffer-dam; but this had been repaired in a few hours without delay or serious damage.
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