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While a few men have done some great deeds in aeronautics which he did not accomplish, nevertheless Donaldson did more things never even undertaken by any other aeronaut that any man who has ever lived.
His reply, and the ensuing conversation, are thus reported by Boschini, in curious Italian verse, which, thus translated by Dr. Donaldson, is quoted in Mr. Stirling's Life of Velasquez: "Diego answered thus: 'I saw in Venice The true test of the good and beautiful; First in my judgment, ever stands that school, And Titian first of all Italian men is." "Tizian ze quel die porta la bandiera"
"Had n't you better lie down here again?" he suggested. "I must go, now. What what time is it, old man?" "Five minutes past ten." Donaldson took a deep breath. Time how it stretched before him like a flower-strewn path without end. He heard the friendly tick-tock at his wrists.
Remember the maid's statement: 'My lady said: "Have you put them back, my dear?" a simple statement, utterly ignored by the prosecution. But what did it mean? That Lady Donaldson could not see for herself whether Edith Crawford had put back the jewels or not, since she asked the question." "Then you argue " "I never argue," he interrupted excitedly; "I state undeniable facts.
Donaldson was a many-sided man among other things, in no small measure a philosopher, as when he commented as follows: "I have noticed on different occasions a class of people who were only half alive and who find fault with my exercise, which to them looks frightful.
He ordered sent to his room two dozen rich lipped roses, a half dozen potted plants, and a small conservatory of ferns. Then he started back to the hotel. It took the boy several trips to carry the bundles upstairs even when they were piled to his eyes. When he finished, Donaldson held out his hand. "I 've had a mighty pleasant afternoon with you," he said. "And I hope we 'll meet again.
Look at Murfreesboro, Corinth, Perrysville, Iuka, Antietam, Chickahomany, Winchester, Fort Donaldson, Island Ten, Shiloh, Lexington, Bull Run, Carnifex Ferry, the Rappahannock, the Mississippi, the Cumberland, the Potomac and Fredericksburg, "where one-half of Meagher's Brigade are still encamped under the sod," and we have evidence of the truth of this assertion, the most ample and complete.
The dog rolled over to its back and held up its trembling forefeet on guard, studying Donaldson through half closed eyes with its head turned sideways. Donaldson put forward his trembling fingers and touched its side. The dog was warm, even as Sandy had been when he first picked him up. The dog feebly waved his padded paws and finally rested them upon Donaldson's hand. "Sandy!
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"What's this?" exclaimed Bobby, picking him up with as substantial an air of paternity as though he were forty. "What's this? Goneter cry afore a stranger?" He held the child up to Donaldson. "The kid," he announced laconically. "What yuh think of him?" "Corker," answered Donaldson. "Let me hold him." "Sure. Get a chair for the gent, Sis."
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