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He had some fifty acres, and it took about thirty years to beggar him. Meanwhile, this brutal, rollicking, strong-natured person had sons and daughters plenty of them. Most of them, even the daughters, were brutal and rollicking too.
Jeroboam had been an industrious, active-minded, strong-natured youth, whom Solomon had promoted and made much of. The prophet Ahijah had privately foretold to him that, on account of the idolatries tolerated by Solomon, ten of the tribes should be rent away from, the royal house and given to him.
'The people about here, said the vicar, 'say he drank away an acre a year. He had some fifty acres, and it took about thirty years to beggar him. Meanwhile, this brutal, rollicking, strong-natured person had sons and daughters plenty of them. Most of them, even the daughters, were brutal and rollicking too.
He was a strong-natured man of firm determinations, and having made up his mind to marry me would never for an instant think of anything else; but I could see what he could not see himself that he had probably tired of me, and was becoming enamoured of Gertie's beauty. The discordance of life smote hard upon me, and the letter I wrote was not pleasant.
Perhaps it was really Lord Reggie's personal beauty or prettiness that attracted her, for, say what one will, a pretty boy steps easily into the good graces of even a strong-natured woman. Perhaps it was his fleeting air of weakness combined with daring that drew her to him. She could not tell.
She was jealous, doubly jealous. The monopolizing instinct of strong-natured and deeply affectionate women was fiercely alive in her. Always, no doubt, she had had it. Long ago, when first she was in Sicily alone, she had dreamed of a love in the South far away from the world. When she married she had carried her Mercury to the exquisite isolation of Monte Amato.
She was very strong-natured and very faithful. She was not to be bought, and I doubted whether she could be frightened. "Father," I said, "I may never marry Marie, but I don't think that Hernando Pereira ever will either." "Why not, my boy?" "Because she loves me, father, and she is not one to change. I believe that she would rather die." "Then she must be a very unusual sort of woman.
Strong-natured though he was, "Cobbler" Horn felt it no weakness to yield to his sister in trifles; and he bore with exhaustless patience such vexations as she inflicted on him alone. But he was firm as a rock where the comfort of any one else was concerned.
It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or back-woodsman, which all men relish. A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
These roses and carnations have made me happy for a day. Yet they stand huddled together in my pitcher, without seeming to know my thoughts of them, or the gracious work they are doing. And how much more is it, to have a disposition that carries with it involuntarily sweetness, calmness, courage, hope, and happiness. Yet this is the portion of good nature in a large-minded, strong-natured man.
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