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To-day, the Bible offers the nineteenth-century infidel as testimony of the influence it has. It has force enough to make infidelity preach tearfully and well about man, woman, and child. Skepticism did not do so well until the Bible came.
He was always feeling his spiritual pulse, staring at his lean spiritual visage, and tearfully watching his growth in grace. An interest in others and a strong mind in a strong body are the best antidotes to religious despair and the temptations of the soul. Life in the monastery was generally less severe than in the desert's solitude.
"Anne Brinsmade!" she cried. "You may have your ball, and your Yankees, all of them you want. But I shan't come. How I wish I had never seen that horrid Stephen Brice! Then you would never have insulted me." Virginia rose and snatched her riding-whip. This was too much for Anne. She threw her arms around her friend without more ado. "Don't quarrel with me, Jinny," she said tearfully.
Lindsey opened the heavy box for the second time, in Mrs. Hanson's presence, and I began to make a list of its contents. At the sight of the money it contained, the woman began to tremble. "Eh, mister!" she exclaimed, almost tearfully, "but that's a sight of money to be lying there, doing naught! I hope there'll be some way of bringing it to me and mine we could do with it, I promise you!"
And since she could get nothing out of her husband, she tied on her bonnet and went off hotfoot to question her friend. But Mrs. Henry tearfully declared her ignorance she had listened in fear and trembling to the sound of the two angry voices and Henry was adamant. They had already called in another doctor.
This news somewhat increased his consternation, for the boy belonged to a family that claimed the patronage of the Colonna. Anxiously and tearfully he looked with every moment up the steep ascent of the Aventine; but his guardian, his protector, still delayed his appearance.
"What's that?" questioned Jimmy, wondering how Alfred could confine himself to any "ONE thing." "He says I'm a liar!" shrieked Zoie tearfully. "Well, aren't you?" asked Jimmy. "Of course I am," declared Zoie; "but why shouldn't I be?" She looked at Jimmy with such an air of self-approval that for the life of him he could find no reason to offer. "You know how jealous Alfred is," she continued.
"Ay, Virgin of the Rosary and of the Girdle! Ay, ay! Our Lady of Novaliches!" "Mother!" responded the elder of the daughters. "I told you so!" continued the wife in an accusing tone. "I told you so! Ay, Virgin of Carmen, ay!" "But you didn't tell me anything," Capitan Tinong dared to answer tearfully.
"Us cries," he said half tearfully. It was then the Indian in the woman asserted itself. "Squaw-men him weeps. 'Brave' him fight. No cry. Oh, no. Only fight. Boy great white 'brave. Him not cry. No." Marcel nodded, but his eyes were turned to the hills. "'Ess. Boy great white 'brave," he agreed, in a choking voice. "Boy not cry never.
"Some eyes saw it all that time, and you and," she added, laughing, though rather tearfully, "I should never have known it, if Tom had not taken me through the plantations!" "Not if I had not discovered that your preferences did not lie " "Among boudoirs and balls?" said Meta. "Harry was right. You thought me a fine lady after all."
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