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In the meantime she did read Tupper's poem, and "Pride and Prejudice," and one of Miss Edgeworth's novels, probably for the third time. During the first week in Bruton Street she would have been comfortable enough, only that she had not received a line from Frank. That Frank was not specially good at writing letters she had already taught herself to understand.
They decked their hair and dresses with it and made a feast in its honor. When parents taught their children the beauty of unselfishness they used as its emblem a stalk of Indian plume. Back from his war against the Tahawi comes the Sun, chief of the Lower Saranacs, back to the Lake of the Clustered Stars, afterward called, by dullards, Tupper's Lake.
'So I supposed, was the prompt answer. 'Well, what did you think of the Dare-all, as the vicar calls her sometimes? is she not like a pleasant edition of Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy, verbose and full of long sentences? How many words did she coin to-night, do you think? There was a little scorn in the young man's voice.
His gallant services in this country are imperfectly recorded in various accounts of the War of 1812, and in Tupper's "Life of Brock." Every Canadian is, or ought to be, familiar with the circumstances attending the capture by him of a force of 450 infantry, fifty cavalry, and two guns, he himself being at the time in command of only forty-eight men.
There was a long debate; Tupper expounded and defended the Quebec resolutions; but no one seemed disposed to come to close quarters with the question. Tupper's policy was to mark time. Prince Edward Island made another contribution to the chapter of misfortune by definitely rejecting the proposed union.
But perhaps it is Tupper you would like. That would suit your mood exactly, Tupper's 'Proverbial Philosophy." "You are growing satirical, Miss Walton. Why don't you assert plainly that I am as full of whims as a " "Woman, would you like to say?" "Present company excepted. The fact is, I am two-thirds ill to-day, and the most faultless style and theme in our language would weary me.
The struggling gleams of sense and memory in these unhappy people reminded me a beautiful passage in "Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy": "On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God; Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption." What a sublime truth! How beautifully and forcibly expressed! With what a mournful dignity it invests our fallen nature!
Then a smile began to spread over his face. It was as if some feather of thought had begun to tickle him. In a moment his head was nodding with laughter that brought a great sense of relief to all of us. In a slow, deliberate tone he began to speak: 'I was over t' Rat Tupper's t'other day, said he, 'Rat was sitting with me in the door yard.
Instant acceptance not seldom preludes final rejection. In the middle of the last century Martin Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy garnished every drawing-room table; and now, where is it? Your loving old G.P. P.S. Do not look for the passage on Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution, for you will not find it there, but in the "Essay of the Diamond Necklace."
We sent forward our boatman with the luggage early in the morning, up Bog River towards Mud Lake, the source of the right branch of that river, lying some thirty miles deeper in the wilderness, counting the sinuosities of the stream, and said to be the highest body of water in all this wild region. We were to spend the day on Tupper's Lake, and follow him the next morning.
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