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I've been around considerable in the Western Country mostly some years back and I've seen quite a little, one way and another, of the folks living there: but I can't really and truly say I've often come up with them nature's noblemen all the time at it doing stunts in natural nobility the story-books make out is the chief population of them parts.
Or, if you ran me through, I shall have to die loving you just the same as before, and hoping you would live happy, for ever and ever, as the story-books say, with Sylvia." "Hermann, don't go," said Michael suddenly. "Mike, you didn't mean that," he said. Michael looked at him for a moment in silence. "No, it is unsaid," he replied. Hermann looked round as the clock on the chimney-piece chimed.
"Well, now," said Joe, "I have read in story-books of folk bein' as lib'ral sometimes as to give a thousand pounds, but I never thought I'd live to see 'em do it." "Why, Joe, where have your eyes and ears bin?" said Luke Trevor. "Don't you know it was a lib'ral gentleman, if not two, or p'raps three, as lent the Ensign, our first gospel-ship, to the Mission?"
And so I think it will befall in all the perilous days, that what is written in the story-books about loud exclamations and pale faces and all the rest of it is the property of the story-teller, and that in plain truth you find none of these things, but just silent actors and simple talk, and no more noise of the difficulty than the common day will bring.
I thought I should have dropped. I durstn't look at the Major; but I know what his state was, without looking at him. "The father of our ill-starred hero" says Jemmy, copying as it seemed to me the style of some of his story-books, "was a worldly man who entertained ambitious views for his only son and who firmly set his face against the contemplated alliance with a virtuous but penniless orphan.
"I'm sure I don't know, or care, what your knights in story-books would do," said Peterkin, "but I'm certain that it would be capital fun, so I'm your man whenever you want me." This plan of Jack's was quite in accordance with his romantic, impulsive nature; and, having made up his mind to save this black girl, he could not rest until the thing was commenced.
"I was afraid, for a moment, that you might be taking a wife." "A wife?" "Yes. Such a rescue often leads straight to matrimony in the story-books, anyhow." Cope laughed, but with a slight disrelish. "We're in actual life still, I'm glad to think. What I said on one stretch of the shore goes on the other," he declared.
But I wish to come to the defense of the Sunday-school story-books and show that their very prominent moral is right after all: it pays to be "good." William Ewart Gladstone was sent to Eton when twelve years of age. From the first, his conduct was a model of propriety.
"I'm sure I don't know or care what your knights in story-books would do," said Peterkin; "but I'm certain that it would be capital fun, so I'm your man whenever you want me." This plan of Jack's was quite in accordance with his romantic, impulsive nature; and having made up his mind to save this black girl, he could not rest until the thing was commenced.
No, there is too much talk about 'morals. The reason the great one says 'don't' is the work." He shook his head sadly. "They do not realize, those eager young beginners. They read the story-books and the lives of the great successes and they hear the foolish chatter of common-place people those imbecile 'cultured' people who know nothing! And they think a career is a triumphal march.
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