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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Well, we have got one week over now for the next," said Susan staunchly. "I feel like a prisoner on the rack when they stopped turning it," Miss Oliver said to Rilla, as they went to church on Easter morning. "But I am not off the rack. The torture may begin again at any time." "I doubted God last Sunday," said Rilla, "but I don't doubt him today. Evil cannot win.
He had lately assured Louis XVIII. that Napoleon deserved to be brought to Paris in an iron cage. But now his soldiers kept a sullen silence. This was enough. Napoleon was as good as his word. Never prone to petty malice, he now received with equal graciousness those officers who flung themselves at his feet, and those who staunchly served the King to the very last.
Nor was he, in his own era, without regard and honor among those who delighted in his splendid patriotism, in the days of his manly strength, mental as well as physical, and who held him in high esteem as a patriot orator and the staunchly loyal tribune of the New World peoples. In these days of flaccid patriotism and moral declension in public life, his example may well stimulate and inspire.
"And why, may I ask?" was the cold question. "He's in no way your equal in culture, in character, in any of the essentials on which the companionship of marriage must be based " "He's a diamond in the rough," Mary staunchly asserted. "He's in the rough, all right! The only diamond about him is the one in his red scarf `Take it from me, Kiddo! Take it from me!"
Soon she would surely get either a cab or a car. And so she started, staunchly, though she was wet through now, and trembling with cold and nervousness. As she hurried through the driving rain she faced things fearlessly. Oh yes, she understood everything. But if he were not well should he not have her with him? If he had that thing to fight, did he not need her help?
There was the parting with my uncle, who laid a strong hand on my shoulder and lapsed into the speech of the country as he said, "I need not tell thee to set thy teeth and hang on through the first few years, lad. Thy father played out a losing game only too staunchly; and it's stey work at the beginning. I mind when I started the mill but that's an old story.
President Taft discerned a spirit of efficiency that would guarantee success. He did not desire another Jamestown fiasco. He had an open admiration for the city which in four years could rebuild itself from ashes, suffer staunchly through disrupting ordeals of political upheaval and unite its forces in a mighty plan to entertain the World. Frank went to the White House for an interview.
"Get out of the way you little imp," he shouted, in the midst of his struggles with the animal. "What do you mean by riding in a public road scaring horses this way?" "Mummy said Boy could ride down hill," answered the child, holding his ground staunchly. "I'll mummy you!" The man's exasperation was increased by the child's resistance. "Get out of the way!"
'Yes, the lawyer answered staunchly; 'that Sir George, if he be going in pursuit of them, permit me to go with him. I I can ride, or at least I can sit on a horse, Mr. Fishwick continued bravely; 'and I am ready to go. 'Oh, la! said Lady Dunborough, spitting on the floor for there were ladies who did such things in those days 'I think they are all in it together. And the fair cousin too!
But, none the less, he heard the minutes ticking past, and as he was not only a creature of habit, but had also a troublesome northern conscience, he rose before the cigarette had formed its second spike of ash, and went to the piano: no matter how rebellious he felt, this was the only occupation open to him; and so he set staunchly out on the unlovely mechanical exercising, which no pianist can escape.
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