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"He said, either at papa's office or at Aunt Cornelia's, as we might decide. Madame fixed it for papa's office, for she thought he might like to see Dr. Martin. I say, mamma." "What?" asked Barbara. "Madame Vine has been crying ever since. Why should she?" "I'm sure I don't know. Crying!" "Yes but she wipes her eyes under her spectacles, and thinks I don't see her.
They will think you had a bad fall." This rouses her; she wipes her eyes hastily and looks up. "How shall I explain to them?" she asks, anxiously. "We won't explain at all. Let me take off your skates, and we will walk up and down here until your eyes are all right again. Why, really," stooping to look at them, "they are by no means bad; they will be as good as ever in five minutes."
'A new pal, replied Jack Dawkins, pulling Oliver forward. 'Where did he come from? 'Greenland. Is Fagin upstairs? 'Yes, he's a sortin' the wipes. Up with you! The candle was drawn back, and the face disappeared.
Third, The Pharisee in his approach to God, wipes his fingers of the Publican's enormities, will not come nigh him, lest he should defile him with his beastly rags: "I am not as other men are, or even as this Publican."
He can talk and blow, but it's all wind. You're a fellow with genuine spirit and pride; nobody wipes his feet on you." "Not if I know it," growled Phil, flattered by the words of the crafty fellow. "Of course not; and that's the way to be. It's only the marks who let themselves be used for footmats; Hooker's a mark. They'll use him, all right.
Faith alone, thought and uttered with trust and confidence, justifies and purifies from all sin, and when once I am justified, I am whole in the sight of God. I am indeed in evil, but God wipes it away the moment it is committed and it no longer appears"; and much else. But who does not see, if he opens his eyes, that these are empty words, without reality because nothing of good is in them?
In this vast and changing struggle, events huddle on each other, so that the new blurs and wipes out the old.
With shameful aplomb I sang these senseless words: Nelly Bly wipes her eye, On her little frock, Nelly Bly, Nelly Bly, Dick a dick a dock. Happily the Emperor did not notice anything wrong, and was delighted to hear those old songs again, and thanked me repeatedly. Once seated at the piano, I was not allowed to leave it until my repertoire of music of this character had been exhausted.
'I have been there, he answered slowly, 'once long, long ago. But it didn't stick very well with me. It wipes off so quickly in the day- time. The sunlight kills it. 'But you got some! the child insisted. 'And you've got it still, I mean? 'A little, perhaps, a very little. All felt the sadness in his voice without understanding it. There was a moment's pause.
Because some fool, or a rogue pretending to be a fool, strikes a man, that man is to be dishonoured for his whole life, unless he wipes out the disgrace with blood, or makes his assailant beg forgiveness on his knees! I think that so very absurd and tyrannical.
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