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And not in our salad days only, when we are still green in judgment, but even to grey hairs, this wicked witch continues to entrap us to our ruin. Love, in all its phases and in all its mixtures, first deludes the very young; and then place, and power, and fame, and money are the bait she busks for the middle-aged and the old; and always with the same bubble end.
So that it could not have been a very important or fixed resolution on Raleigh's part, if it was only to be recollected a month after. I do not say as Sir Robert Schomburgk is very much inclined to do that it was altogether a bubble of French fancy.
"When proud fortune's ebbing tide recedes," you will bear me witness that when my bubble of fame was at the highest, I stood unintoxicated with the inebriating cup in my hand, looking forward with rueful resolve to the hastening time when the blow of calamity should dash it to the ground with all the eagerness of vengeful triumph. In a letter to Dr.
"And what mought your name be?" inquired Master Chirk. "Hildegardis Graham." It was gently said, in a very different voice from that which had answered Farmer Hartley in the same words the night before; but it made a startling impression on Bubble Chirk. "Hildy " he began; and then, giving it up, he said simply: "Well, I swan! Do ye kerry all that round with ye all the time?"
He was a 'gentleman in my own way. Sweet Will has hit him off to a hair ! 'The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword. "Such a hand with a cue! You should have seen him seek the 'bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth. I may say," continued Mr. Peacock, emphatically, "that he was a regular trump.
The next moment she would be laughing and jesting and mocking, as though life were nought but a great many-coloured bubble, and she the brightest-tinted gleam on it.
We made the dark, smooth water hiss and bubble under our bows, as we clove our rapid way through it, throwing up a mass of shining foam before us, and leaving a line of liquid fire in our wake.
For this privilege, the Company agreed to pay outright a bonus of more than seventeen million dollars. This plan is said to have been originated and principally carried through by Sir John Blunt, one of the Company's directors. Parliament adopted it after two months' discussion the Bubble having, however, been swelling monstrously all the time.
There came a bubble of laughter, and she knew that this was a very old acquaintance indeed, a Mrs. Riddick, whom she had not seen for some time. "I don't wonder you didn't know me! It's impossible to see anything by this light. I've been having such an adventure! I only came back from Holland yesterday. I went to meet a young niece of mine there you know, the girl who was in Germany so long."
The officer stated sharply that he was the constable of Wayne County and was talking business about the county's prisoners. His tone was so charged with consequence that the voice that wanted a doctor apologized hastily and ceased. Came a pause in which neither man found anything to say. Laughter is like that, a gay bubble that a touch will destroy.
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