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They used young saplings for keel and the ribs, and, with patience, they managed to strip off enough of the birch bark to cover the canoe. It took them two days to get all the materials together and then, when the canoe was roughly shaped, they had to spend much more time on it, rendering it water-proof by smearing the seams with pitch and gum which exuded from several trees near at hand.
"I did it because it is so great a pleasure to me to spend an entire evening with you, even at another's house. Remember you have so many official dinners, banquets and invitations that you attend alone. When the minister's wife is invited with him, it is a fête-day for the poor, little forsaken thing. I do not have much of you, it is true, but I see you, I hear you talking and I am happy.
She was thankful from that moment that she was going to spend most of the summer in Tideshead. Here was the best of good things, a real friend, who had been waiting for her all the time. WHEN the happy Becky flew in to free herself from her Sunday clothes she did not meet either member of her family, but on her return from the walk she found her mother grimly getting the supper ready.
"I haven't heard, but I think it's likely that he's here, because he has so much influence with the Indians, who are far more useful in the woods than in a fortress like Quebec. It's probable that we'll hear from him in the morning when we try a landing." "You mean we'll spend the night on the lake?" "Aye, lad. It's blowing harder, and we've a rough sea here, though 'tis a mountain lake.
Omicron that is to say, use your imagination and try to see that so far as finance is concerned your wife's chief and proper occupation in life is to spend. Conceive what you would say if she announced one morning: "Henry, I am sick of spending. I am going out into the world to earn."
Christophe wished to go now that the weather was fair again, but they would not let him. He had to agree to stay to supper and to spend the night with them. Modesta sat near Christophe and did not leave him all the evening. He would have liked to talk intimately to the girl whose lot filled him with pity. But she gave him no opportunity. She would only try to ask him about Gottfried.
He was able to get up now, but was in such a state of utter mental prostration, his mysterious ailment had taken such firm hold upon his system, that he was content to spend his days in idleness, stretched on a lounge before a great wood fire.
We had a telegram from her late last night asking if she might come to-day to spend a week or fortnight, and of course we wired back 'Yes. We are delighted; but of course you may not like her, girls." "Like her! like her!" said Cicely; "and after all you have said too! We shall be certain to more than like her." "She's not a bit pretty, so don't expect it," said Molly.
Now we will bring the wash-basket, and see whether young Capet will go into it. He brought out of the chamber a high, covered basket, grasped the boy, thrust him in, and ordered him to lie down on the bottom of the basket. "He exactly fits!" said Simon to his wife. "We will now throw some dirty clothes over him, and he can spend the night in the basket.
Nevertheless, he had such a sense of the evil of sin, of the goodness of the Divine Being, and of the admirable tendency of the Christian revelation, that he resolved to spend the remainder of his life, while God continued him out of hell, in as rational and as useful a manner as he could; and to continue casting himself at the foot of divine mercy every day, and often in a day, if peradventure there might be hope of pardon, of which all that he could say was, that he did not absolutely despair.
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