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Nature in its cruelty mocked him. His struggle had to do with the most perfect of nature's works man. Wade was now in passionate strife with the encroaching mood that was a mocker of his idealism. Many times during the strange, long martyrdom of his penance had he faced this crisis, only to go down to defeat before elemental instincts.
Under the mangroves the pink ajajas preen and wade; and the white ibis walks the woods like a little absent-minded ghost buried in unearthly reverie.
Rowden always appeared in the highest state of elation, and generally received distinguished notice from the clerical hero of the evening. I remember accompanying her to hear Mr. Lewis Wade, a celebrated missionary preacher, who had been to Syria and the Holy Land, and brought thence observations on subjects sacred and profane that made his discourses peculiarly interesting and edifying.
Apparently McCorquodale had not been informed as to the real contents of that tan satchel he had been assigned to guard. Wade and Cranston were following that line of investigation under cover for the time being.
She tried to wade out and get it, and had to be held by her very short skirts lest she drown in the attempt. "So I'm a confounded autocrat," the Judge chuckled. "Nobody ever said that to me before, but maybe some of them have been thinking it." "Maybe they have," said Mary gravely, "but they haven't really cared.
At least two-thirds of the citizens were strongly in favor of Wade, but before they took active steps in his behalf they waited for the return of a horseman, who had hurried out to the ranch to learn at first hand exactly what had happened there. Meanwhile Moran, in an ugly mood, had awakened the Senator from the troubled sleep which had come to him after much wakeful tossing.
And be it further enacted, That the word "article," in the sixth section of the act to which this is supplementary, shall be construed to mean, "section." SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore.
We have said the banks, but in truth the mouth of that river had no distinguishable banks at all, for it is the nature of the mangrove to grow in the water using its roots as legs with which, as it were, to wade away from shore.
"Probably she is afraid he would be some trouble," replied John. "If George's boy had lived he would be about Frank's age. It would have been a great comfort to me to superintend his education, and watch him grow up. I could not have wished him to be more gentlemanly or promising than my young reader." "Decidedly, that boy is in my way," said John Wade to himself.
Tell him it will be necessary for him to lead his troops along the shore of the bay in that direction," pointing; "say that it may even be necessary for his troops to enter the water and wade for some distance, since the tide is rising; but that if he will do that, I am certain he can retrieve the day. You understand? Then, go!"
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