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The younger of the children, eight years of age, was shouting, as he stood beside the reservoir, the surface of which was stirred and eddying at the spot where the older boy had fallen in as he ran along the stone coping.
The meetings for the purposes just mentioned, as well as those for entertainment, have, like games, a real educational value, and do much to cement the comradeship of common interests and common aims that is one of the best things school has to give. And not only among those of the same age. These are things in which the example and influence of the older are particularly helpful to the younger.
They went down to the floor below, where they found the whole family collected: the old man, his daughter, his son-in-law, Vogel, and his grandchildren, a boy and a girl, both a little younger than Christophe.
The woman was yet crying, monotonously, but with such a note of woe that Harley was shaken. He had thought in his own room that it was the old woman who wept thus; but now in the hall he knew it to be a younger and fresher voice. He saw farther down another door, and he knew that it led to the room from which came the sounds of grief.
"Ah, monsieur, how could you pass us by?" madame's soft voice would murmur reproachfully in the pilgrim's ear. And the pilgrim, abashed, ashamed, would quickly make answer, if he were born of the right parents: "Chere madame, how was I to believe my eyes? It is ten years since I was here, and you are younger, more beautiful than ever!
Every new sensation adds a day to life." "In your case, certainly, Marquis, for I never saw you looking younger," answered the land baron, with an effort. "You are too amiable, my dear friend! The ladies would not think so," he added, mournfully wagging his head with anile melancholy. "Nonsense!" protested the other. "With your spirit, animation "
As before, since she had been in Egypt, she had appeared to most people very much younger than she really was, so now she appeared older, decisively older, than she actually was. When Isaacson had looked at her in his consulting-room he had thought her not young, nor old, nor definitely middle-aged.
Hour after hour had passed, yet nobody had come near them. "I reckon they are going to starve us to death for what we did," went on Tom, after a long pause. "If only I had a drink of water," came at last from his younger brother. "My mouth is as dry as a chip, and I seem to have a regular fever." "Make the best of it, Sam," returned Tom soothingly. "This state of things can't last forever.
The Red-Legged Scouts, while they coöperated with the regular army along the borders of Missouri, had for their specific duty the protection of Kansas against raiders like Quantrell, and such bandits as the James Boys, the Younger Brothers, and other desperadoes who conducted a guerrilla warfare against Union settlers. We had plenty to do. The guerrillas were daring fellows and kept us busy.
"Phil couldn't go," explained the unmarried and sunburned Evelyn, "he had a match on of eighteen holes with me." Mrs. Waring sighed. "I can't think what's got into the younger people these days that they seem so indifferent to religion. Your father's a vestryman, Phil, and I believe it has always been his hope that you would succeed him.
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