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Just such a man as this Abraham must have been in his old age. She could even imagine him ready to sacrifice a son, if he believed it to be the will of Allah; and Maïeddine became of more importance in her eyes because of his relationship to this kingly patriarch of the Sahara.
These parcels mean life and a small degree of comfort to the boys, so you can imagine how they are looked forward to. The Red Cross saved my life and the lives of thousands of our boys; and they deserve honour and support from every person who calls himself a loyal citizen of any Allied country.
"I hate to sit down in that big, empty dining-room. I imagine I'm at an Egyptian banquet, and that there are horrid, rattly skeletons sitting in all those high, covered chairs." "What you need is some fresh air," said her father. "You girls get your hats and go for a walk. You're growing morbid. If you think of skeletons again, I'll give you a liver pill." "Won't you come, dad?"
While there is left in us the possibility of scorn we know not quite the spirit we are of still less if we imagine we may keep this or that little shadow of a fault. But Hester was far less ready to scorn on her own account than on the part of another.
You may imagine what it means, and the general state of affairs, when I say that the possibility of leaving has occurred to me." "Incendiarism?" suggested Dr. Silence, half under his breath, but not so low that Colonel Wragge did not hear him.
"I shall not ask for its repeal, and I promise you that I will be courageous beyond anything that you can imagine; you shall not so much as suspect that I even regret my chimera. But, as a fair exchange, you on your side must make me a promise. If Abbe Miollens " "You know as well as I that you are of age." "I know as well as you that I never will be content without your consent.
But although I might imagine love at first sight, I never could fancy a declaration worth hearing, the first day." "Do you insinuate that such is the practice of your humble servant?" asked Hazlehurst, smiling. "Oh, no; but I was afraid you might disapprove of my deliberation.
'Do you imagine that I have the peace of mind necessary for anything of that sort? This was in a changed voice. It reminded her so strongly of her husband before his disasters that she could not frame a reply. 'Do you think I am able to occupy myself with the affairs of imaginary people? 'I didn't necessarily mean fiction. 'That I can forget myself, then, in the study of literature?
I almost began to regret the gentleness of my letter to Falkenberg; I might have made it a good deal sharper; now, perhaps, he would imagine I was too soft to stand up for myself. Why, he might even take it into his head to bear witness against me, and say I hadn't invented the machine at all! Hoho, Master Falkenberg, just try it on!
Now I've come here to-day" she raised her voice to a note of warning "to give you a chance. To make you think, by pointing out the path you are treading. You are young, and it is my duty to let no young person go downhill without one warning word. You have brought much evil on our village why you, a stranger, should be bent on making us all unhappy I can't imagine.
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