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I imagined you moving gracefully in the arms of others to the dreamy music of the waltz amid the fragrance of flowers. Think how lonely I must have been!" The youngest, handsomest, and poorest of the famous Trenholme sisters sighed. "You haven't quite hit it," she said, plaintively. "I was moving gracefully at the arms of another.
Yet the singular passing beauty and maidenly majesty of the youngest daughter did so farre surmount and excell then two, as no earthly creature could by any meanes sufficiently expresse or set out the same.
She's the youngest, and Mother Mother wasn't here to advise her about her marriage, and and now I don't write her; and she wrote me that Betty had a cough, and Davy was so noisy indoors in wet weather and I just go to the Club to hear papers upon 'Napoleon' and 'The Mind of the Child." And Miss Anne, beginning to cry outright, leaned back in her chair, and covered her face with her handkerchief.
He was obliged to order her to be burnt alive on a pile of wood. When the pile was all ablaze, and they were about to put her on it, she made signs to them to take twelve boards and lay them around the pile. On these she laid the shirts for her brothers all completed but that for the youngest, which lacked its left sleeve; she had not had time to finish it.
Three children were born to them and I was the youngest; there was a girl and another boy. I know little of my father's people, excepting that he repeatedly told me that they came from South Carolina. So it is, that while I can trace my ancestry back to my great-grandparents on my mother's side, I can learn nothing beyond my grandparents on my father's side.
The King was surprised but not unduly alarmed and the following day when the Youngest Prince asked to go hunting alone the King suggested that he go in the direction of the Old Mill to find out if he could what was keeping his brothers. The Youngest Prince who had listened carefully to what his brothers' attendants had reported decided to act cautiously.
Nor could we assume this office as exclusively for our own benefit. The rest of Christendom silently assigned it to the youngest born for the common good.
And the generals above heard, and drew her gently up. They then unfastened the cord and threw it back into the river, and in a few moments the second princess stood beside her sister. So now there were left only Bensurdatu and the youngest princess. 'Dear Bensurdatu, said she, 'do me a kindness, and let them draw you up before me. I dread the treachery of the generals.
As they drew near the fork a bear suddenly ran out from behind a tree, and took the path on the right. The two elder boys and their dogs pursued him, and soon the second son, who was also a good shot, killed him instantly with an arrow. At the fork of the trail, on their way home, they met the youngest, who had taken the left-hand road, and had shot a bear for himself.
Douglas, many years later, declared that he was drawn to Lincoln by a strong sympathy, for they were both young men making an uphill struggle in life. Lincoln, at his first sight of Douglas, during the contest with Hardin for the attorneyship, pronounced him "the least man he ever saw." Douglas was the youngest member of an unusual house, but he at once took his place among the leaders.
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