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My mother takes very kindly your compliments in your letter to her. Her words upon reading it were, 'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is an admirable young lady: wherever she goes, she confers a favour: whomever she leaves, she fills with regret. And then a little comparative reflection 'O my Nancy, that you had a little of her sweet obligingness! No matter. The praise was yours.
Trained like a woman to subdue her most ardent feelings, her thoughts reverted to her father, and to the blessings that awaited the child who yielded to a parent's wishes. "Father," she said quietly, almost with a holy calm, "God blesses the dutiful daughter." "I will marry whomever you desire." "Nay, nay, Mabel, you may have a choice of your own "
"For two cents," he declared, "I'd chop a hole in the ice pond and drown myself. There's no marriage in Heaven." "That's no argument for the other place," I answered, and stopped, staring. He was pulling something out of his overcoat pocket, an inch at a time. "For God's sake, Minnie," he exclaimed, "return this this garment to whomever it belongs to!"
The clergyman's words, however, convey the impression that Paul knew Jesus in the flesh, but he valued that, knowledge "comparatively lightly," that is to say, he did not think much of it. And Dr. Barton is one of the foremost divines of the country. And now about his admissions: I. "The Gospels, by whomever written," says the clergyman, "are reliable." By whomever written!
Gryce never allowed himself or very rarely to look at anyone full and square in the face; yet he always seemed to form an instant opinion of whomever he talked with. Perhaps he had already gauged this man and not unfavorably, for he showed not the slightest distrust as he remarked quite frankly: "You must have had some suspicion of foul play even then, to act in so expeditious a manner."
My favorite among all of them, and one who was liked by both officers and men, and by whomever he had anything to do with, was Hope. He was an intelligent, kind-hearted little fellow, and I never saw him angry, though I knew him for more than a year, and have seen him imposed upon by white people, and abused by insolent officers of vessels.
"Good work, Jonas! Remember one thing, though! Leave me and Miss Diana absolutely out of the story." Jonas nodded. "I understand, Mr. Secretary." When Enoch reached his office the next morning he said to Charley Abbott: "When or if Secretary Fowler's office calls with the usual inquiry, make no reply but connect whomever calls directly with me." Charley grinned. "Very well, Mr. Secretary.
"Wherever I went in Germany, north or south, and whomever I met, whether it was an employer or a workman, a Conservative or a Liberal, a Socialist or a Trade-union Leader men of all ranks, sections and creeds, with one accord joined in lauding the benefits which have been conferred upon Germany by this beneficent policy. Several wanted extensions, but there was not one who wanted to go back.
There was a writing-table that could be closed up into the wall so cunningly that no trace was left of where it had been, a tiny library of slim volumes uniformly bound in amber leather, a miracle of binding, the work of Grossart of Tours, a map-rack containing large scale maps of the world, and a tell-tale compass shewing the course of the Gaston de Paris to whomever cared to read it.
Suddenly she resumed: "I cannot let my name be mentioned in this dreadful matter, but I think I have some information for the police. Will you give this to whomever you think proper?" She handed me a sealed envelope, again met my eyes with one of her dazzling glances, and hurried away.
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