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If behind them there were another range, and then another, and another, if we looked upon the nearest wave of an ocean of mountains, I would climb them all. If they are before us, sooner or later I shall find them. But not to know that they are before us! To know that they may be to the north of us, may be to the south of us! that we may even have passed them! it is maddening!"
'If I have discovered something, so also have you, namely: a pocket deep enough, a heart honest enough, and a faith strong enough to make that something available; I expected sooner to find the philosopher's-stone than all these, good friend. No, John Meavy, if you share with me, you share equally. Then I shall be sure that you are equally interested with myself; so we shall succeed. "Eh, bien!
He will come with you, of course; I will open the door for you and and lock you both in" she gasped. "Lock us in?" "You see? You understand? It's the only way for me to leave the house if I am ever to do it" She drew another difficult breath. "The key will be returned by a safe person in half an hour, perhaps sooner "
He thought that there must be a mistake in the name, or else that it was a commission that had been entrusted to him. No! it was from the French manufacturer whose working expenses he had reduced so greatly. He permitted himself, he wrote, to send this as a modest honorarium. He had not been able to do so sooner, but now hoped that it would not end there.
Theologians and priests must be very confident of the grace of heaven and a happy futurity, to refrain from detesting a master so capricious as the God they announce. A God, who damns eternally, is the most odious of beings that the human mind can invent. No man upon earth is truly interested in the support of error, which is forced sooner or later to yield to truth.
It was perhaps to be regretted that compromise should be as necessary as it was; still it was necessary, and the sooner the boy got to understand it the better for himself. But they never tell this to the boy. From the book of their mythology about the unborn I made the extracts which will form the following chapter.
He was very fond of flying kites, chasing pigeons, playing knuckle-bones, running races, and always took part in children's games and disputes. No sooner had his master turned his back or gone to sleep than Deniska would begin doing something such as hopping on one leg or throwing stones.
Finally, he took a last farewell of the good matron, and returned to his father with the particulars of this interview. "In two days Mrs. Darnel departed this life, and Aurelia was removed to the house of a relation, where her grief had like to have proved fatal to her constitution. "In the meantime, the mother was no sooner committed to the earth, than Mr.
One pleasant afternoon, about ten days after the rupture, old Julius drove the rockaway up to the piazza, and my wife, Mabel, and I took our seats for a drive to a neighbor's vineyard, over on the Lumberton plank-road. "Which way shall we go," I asked, "the short road or the long one?" "I guess we had better take the short road," answered my wife. "We will get there sooner."
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