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His name is Hold-fast, and if you tell him to hold, hold he will whatever it may be, were it even the fiercest giant." Then he departed, and the lad thought that for once, at all events, fortune had been kind to him. When evening had come, the lad called his dog, and drove the hogs to his home in the forest.
Man, says Montaigne, has no hold-fast, no firm and fixed point, within himself, in spite of his apparently splendid outfit. Man can do nothing with his own weapons alone without help from outside.
Fact is, stranger, we must have the hold-fast for fear of the shot falling short. So glad did he seem, that he whistled Yankee Doodle with the variations, looked every which way, and then laughed right out at what he called Smooth's outfit.
Hold-fast, hold him fast; Tear and Quick-ear, tear him into a thousand pieces!" The dogs straightway sprang forward and threw themselves on the giant, and tore him into pieces as numberless as are the leaves which fall in the autumn. Then the princess was very glad, and said "Heaven be thanked! Now I am free!" She threw herself on the lad's neck and kissed him.
Even two days ago light-hearted, before Prosper Profond told her. Now she felt tangled in a web of passions, vested rights, oppressions and revolts, the ties of love and hate. At this dark moment of discouragement there seemed, even to her hold-fast nature, no way out. How deal with it how sway and bend things to her will, and get her heart's desire?
There are three things to be chiefly noticed in the otter first, the great width of the upper nostril; secondly, the length and sharpness of the hold-fast teeth; and, thirdly, the sturdiness and roundness of the chest or barrel, expressive of singular strength.
'Brag is a good dog, but Hold-Fast is a better. Ef he don't sense nare 'nother idee in this life, he hev got ter l'arn ez it's his business ter take keer o' Nar'sa. Folks say Nar'sa be spoiled a'ready. So be, fur whilst Ben be nuthin' but a boy he'll l'arn ter do her bid, an' watch over her, an' wait on her, an' keer for her, an' think she be the top o' creation.
"If I had gone to South Africa would you have remembered my name for a month?" he asked with determination and meaning. "My friends never suffer lunar eclipse," she answered, gaily. "Dear sir, I am called Hold-Fast. My friends are century-flowers and are always blooming." "You count me among your friends?" "I hope so. You will let me make all England envious of me, won't you?
Even two days ago light-hearted, before Prosper Profond told her. Now she felt tangled in a web-of passions, vested rights, oppressions and revolts, the ties of love and hate. At this dark moment of discouragement there seemed, even to her hold-fast nature, no way out. How deal with it how sway and bend things to her will, and get her heart's desire?
Even two days ago light-hearted, before Prosper Profond told her. Now she felt tangled in a web-of passions, vested rights, oppressions and revolts, the ties of love and hate. At this dark moment of discouragement there seemed, even to her hold-fast nature, no way out. How deal with it how sway and bend things to her will, and get her heart's desire?
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