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All the officers stationed there at the time who offered their votes were permitted to cast them. I did not offer mine, however, as I did not wish to consider myself a citizen of Michigan. This was Mr. Chandler's first entry into politics, a career he followed ever after with great success, and in which he died enjoying the friendship, esteem and love of his countrymen.
It seems that a friend of the artist was in his studio watching him at his work, when suddenly this friend said: "Really, Mr. Turner, I can't see in nature the colors that you portray on canvas." The artist looked at him steadily for a moment, and then replied: "Don't you wish you could?" Life, even at its best, certainly is a maze.
"Well, don't be snobbish and patronize them, and don't look shocked at any strange opinions you hear, nor act as if you were at an animal show and were wondering what would happen next. Be sure not to assent when you see they wish to argue, and don't argue when they expect acquiescence.
"You are joking, Mr. Isburn." "I wish I were. No, it is gone. I cannot imagine how it was possible for any one to get possession of that ring. Only you and I knew how to open the bookcase doors, and I would as soon suspect myself as you." "I am glad that you have that opinion," said Miss Dana.
Then she tried to waken early, in order to wish him good morning; but when she thrust her little head from between the bed-curtains, and called cheerily, "Good morning, dear Ludwig!" there was no one there. Ludwig never slept more than four hours of the twenty-four, and his slumber was so light that he woke at the slightest noise.
"And is there anything we Army officers can do for you, Mr. Arnold?" she inquired. There was a hint in her voice that, whatever it was, they would have done it more willingly if she had not been obliged to ask. "I am afraid," he said, "my mission is not quite so simple. I could wish it were.
Buchanan, when he demanded that the Government should arrest with vigor from the beginning the faintest wish of separation. General Cass was nearer right than he himself imagined.
Myra, are you keeping something back from me?" "Everything depends on Don Carlos and Cojuelo," Myra responded, evading the question. "Please say nothing to him, aunt, until I have spoken to him alone." "Oh, the whole affair seems a crazy nightmare, and I don't know what to make of it all," said her aunt, with another sigh. "I wish we had never come to this wretched, lawless place.
... Confined to the society of a set of silly females, I have no social converse, and their boisterous spirits and unmeaning laughter exhaust me, not forgetting hourly domestic bickerings. The topics of matrimony and dress take their turn, not in a very sentimental style, alas! poor sentiment, it has no residence here. I almost wish the girls were novel-readers and romantic.
It seemed to Chester that he purposely led up to his personal affairs, and he wondered why. There were some parts of his history that he did not desire to talk about. What did this man wish to know? "How long did you live in Utah?" asked the minister, after receiving little information about Chester's birth and parentage. "Altogether, about a year." "And you liked it out there?" "Very much.
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