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end comfort to it ia totally the the a of the of hia aod connect him by on and interest in the he compare the of the foreign and on the cant � ie i have never j et met a stranger in italy who did not profess to love rome here he and here he returns here though he be of the mould he be to a new and after a little while ...
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crowd when mr price was only calling out come girls fan come sue take care of yourself keep a sharp i he ould give them his attendance once fairly in the dock yard he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with as they were yery soon joined by a brother of mr price s who was come to take his daily survey of how th...
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h w m a fellow and of college author of england under the and ia with maps and illustrations s d a j d net a c see little library the system cr ax the and translated by cr ar d against and by f m a at see little library and l poems cr is td net l m a fellow of king s college cambridge the greek view of life fourth edit...
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i added with enthusiasm for i now saw what the poor girl must have suffered didn t try to go further did he he did she said her voice trembling with emotion he set the time and place for the wedding issued the cards provided me with a � a based upon his of what a ought to be and therefore about as satisfactory to a wom...
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the matter and had no voice at all asserted they sang together once more and would then resign her place to miss whose performance both and she never could attempt to conceal from herself was infinitely superior to her own with mixed feelings she seated herself at a little distance from the numbers round the instrument...
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hard and groaning her husband was tied to the gaily painted the door of the hut that opened into the street was shut fast and three or four people were sitting with their backs to it knew the manners and customs of the villagers very fairly he argued that so long as they could eat and talk and smoke they would not do a...
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and his brothers in law and hit the hi h places for forty mile where they filed on the claims before captain and the creek and was forgotten no word of it reached him his promise weeks afterward when and were from end to end and there was no more r m m a party of late comers pushed over the down to gold bottom where fo...
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so but i have not yet long enough to fo et what was tho n rt of the party being scattered � the called mr s attention to i� t� r lay do look at mr and standing � the ceremony were going to be pi not tliey completely the air of it mr smiled his and stepping forward lo s iii in a which only could hear i do nut like to so...
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her whether they might not as well go home at once � � why inquired who was stooping to tie her and consequently did not perceive s uneasiness � we are very wet � and your cold may be made worse you know i think we might as well go we have been et you mean we are not wet now � and my cold is quite gone oh i think we ha...
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it is impossible to do anything with my father especially at this time for he has one of these english officers staying at the dove now who i am afraid and so is sister has come to do some mischief says i must make some appointment with you to see her privately i thought of mrs s but this englishman has a servant stayi...
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gestures and words others in moody silence listen i pray you gathered here i tell you frankly that i know not why your master wages this wild war with me i know not what he seeks by such injustice unless to give me practice in my that of a soldier � i was i deemed he my craft might dip from me let him now own me still ...
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voice is raised to the pitch of which it is capable a sort of on occasion even when most and attacked have i ever known him betray a this is the source of great mortification to his have often seen sir robert labour with his might to the temper of i� rd john but never with effect in ct sir robert and hia party see � g ...
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haunt the old spots of which i never tired i haunted them as my memory had often done and lingered among them as my younger thoughts had lingered when i was far away the grave beneath the tree where both my parents lay � on which i had looked out when it was my father s only with such curious feelings of compassion and...
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time has flown dear grace ho said since then they had been talking of that and yet it seems a long long while ago we count by changes and events within us not by years yet we have years to count by too since was with us returned grace six times dear husband counting to night as one we have sat here on her birth day and...
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the door these ladies were all of them so that they would not speak in company and and n had to do all the talking for them but they used to make the talked and this did just as well they used to say just such things as the ladies did who called on mrs green and and i never left without being urged to stay longer and a...
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but me tom had never had me out of his thoughts she really believed all the time t had been away tom was the authority for everything tom was evidently the idol of her life never to be shaken on his by any commotion always to be believed in and done homage to with the whole faith of her heart come what might the defere...
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give the family a head and a position is a clear gain to the county and with philip he ll get into the right hands � of course he wants guiding having been out of the country so long all we have to ask is whether a man s a tory and will make a stand for the good of the the try � that s the plain english of the matter a...
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he had in hand essay to a passage after him that it might hold a greedy at the feast of his providing when he looked back across his shoulder was it to see if his quick footsteps still fell dry upon the dusty pavement or were already moist and with the red mire that stained the naked feet of he shaped his course for th...
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under than free � he said with a sigh � in a state of freedom we may think as we please � and freedom of thought doubt � whereas in a state of we think as we and so god s good man we are gradually forced into an attitude of belief the spread of among the english is entirely due to the wild liberty of opinion allowed th...
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and have a right to when they think they have reason was the southern view of the matter you are a part of the union which forms but one nation and to break up the union is rebellion was the northern view but the passions excited by the long and bitter debate over questions relating to slavery lay at the bottom of the ...
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sir i have not at present the intention said mr of � ha � exceeding a fortnight that s a very short stay after so long a journey returned mr hum yes said mr but the truth my dear mr that i find a foreign life so well suited to my health and taste that i � hum � have but two objects in my present visit to london first t...
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day and the would be ready by to morrow morning i won t go to my aunt s i will be an independent woman i have been as if i were a child of six i ll be your wife if it is as easy as you say they stopped the cab while they held a consultation had rooms and a in the neighbourhood of hill but it would be hardly desirable t...
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ity of travelling over the c compass of nature in quest of instances before w� establish any of philosophy or principles of science bacon i will explain to you the of the between your ud of reasoning and mine and the necessity in order to arrive at a just philosophy of a ad to my method after only a partial collection ...
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together mr was indeed most agreeably his expressive little beamed with delight what a very charming person miss is he exclaimed after they had left the gate what a very charming person indeed very charming said mr with much seriousness a prettier young person i certainly have never seen and those wonderful gowns of he...
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time come when in went through all these acts of as mechanically as n nurse soothing a child and once he had i her weeping eloquent he looked about at the spacious room with its heavy of and the thick velvet which stifled his steps everywhere were the graceful tokens of her presence � the vast draped strewn with silver...
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saw her this morning she returns to street to day the old lady is come now do not make yourself uneasy with any uncle and permission was giving her ease this was the letter a most scandalous ill natured rumour has just reached me and i write dear to warn you against giving the least credit to it should it spread into t...
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the well well you saved me from the ice and i have saved you from the water ah who was it that led me to row round by that outer isle last night because i could not sleep but what does it matter god willed it so and here you lie in the mare s stable nay do not me first you must eat then going to the pot she took it fro...
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would stand still by themselves in all the din and noise of battle while their masters went to fight on foot the could not have succeeded in their most remarkable art without the aid of these sensible and animals the art i mean is the construction and management of or cars for which they have ever been celebrated in hi...
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to the president a man some twenty years older and he wondered at the time how a mere shepherd from the hills could talk on an equality as if they were friends with the president the shepherd he now heard was an but he lived among the hills and joseph remembered the striped shirt the sheep skin and the long stride his ...
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was truly not engaged to this fellow quickened and his regret that the girls were inclined to behave so the moment mr turned his back it began � that perpetual going and coming of it really wasn t right sally was a nature but he might speak to mr no that wouldn t do he might speak to but didn t care � he was absorbed i...
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since you told me of the lady who gave you the the monotonous boy put his head round the beam on the left and said look out there ladies and disappeared the gentleman with the black hair as suddenly put his head round the beam on the right and said look out there and also all the j s rose im � out i funny doing the res...
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eye now mr now mr i must beg of you � calm yourself what would my guests think if they found you in tears what would they think i had been saying to reduce you to such a condition it is very unfortunate that sally and should act as they do particularly at my place but really you must not give way since the death of the...
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bewildered as to the purpose of earthly existence the should throw aside the veil and cast an inquiring glance at this figure of death as seeking thence the solution otherwise the only reply would be a stare of the vacant eye and a grin of the skeleton jaws such was the response that the dead man had fancied to receive...
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had she property j person and the strand after midnight the police would not have interfered with her and she would have been able to pay for her lodging the following cases are from the police court reports for a single week � police court before and thomas charged with being drunk and and with a rescued a woman from ...
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by speaking of that said tenderly is no need tho case is very simple i think i can hardly judge about it you consult me because i am the only person to whom you confided the most painful part of your experience and i can understand your scruples did not go on immediately waiting for her to recover herself tho silence s...
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with the rope and there was neither sign nor nor whisper down the to show where the others had gone little stared again and again the clearing as he remembered it had grown in the night more trees stood in the middle of it but the and the grass at the sides had been rolled back little stared once more now he understood...
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eaten it all at last yet every one had had enough and the youngest in particular were in sage and to the eyebrows but now the plates being changed by miss mrs left the room alone � too nervous to bear witness � to take the up and bring it in suppose it should not be done enough suppose it should break in turning out su...
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in the outer world while her mother was and co ling up her thick black hair � a task because it seemed to renew the days of her daughter s � told how she came to send for mr how she had remembered their meeting at sally martin s in the autumn and had felt an irresistible desire to see him and tell him her sins and her ...
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i could never have got everything into that little pen which they call a wardrobe she dismissed telling her that she could come up presently and lay away her things and she told her that one particular trunk might be put away in the large cupboard without being they are not things useful for this climate she said by wa...
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brought hither from other islands for this was like � wise an abode of the they had soon an instance of the courage and ferocity of this race while ihe boat was ou shore a with a few indians two of whom were females came from a distant part of the island and a point of land arrived suddenly in fill view of the ships as...
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again possessing a dramatic literature chapter x it is said that young men of genius come to london with great poems and in their pockets and find every door closed against them s death this legend but when i edward came to london in search of literary adventure i found a ready welcome possibly i should not have been a...
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no doubt had objected elizabeth was very fond of frank and managed generally to find excellent excuses for his little when she had recovered from her first feeling of irritation too she really was not sure whether it was not rather a relief to feel that some stranger would be at her brother in law s whose presence woul...
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will erect round the throat a yellow white is encircled a sort of oval patch on either side below the eye is pure white the of neck is pale brown beyond the most glossy black and purple the back and wings a splendid olive green having rainbow reflections of deeper tints of blue and steel colour and history of the golde...
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t mind me a bit think you could give the usually have my driver do it if you u tell me how � a right say did you hear me putting one over on these that are always in on party wires i hope they heard me well now don t you worry about he s getting along all right tomorrow you or one of the neighbors drive in and get this...
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fills i am going away come thou also in his mind had already escaped from the boat and was high in air to find a rest for the sole of his foot his he was really sorry for its gross lay in the stem the water rushing about its knees how very ridiculous he said to himself from his is chief of the bridge the poor beast is ...
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uncle who seemed to have made up his mind to in extravagance i used to get my coloured gloves from the royal when the war broke out in i was cut off from them for nine years had it not been for a which i specially hired to them might have been reduced to english tan the english are excellent at a flat iron or a kitchen...
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they took they had never taken up such a customer before � the astonished in the manner i had suggested and carried him safe and sound down the area steps while this apparently procession was in progress a gentleman stepped forward and addressed me with a very excited excuse me sir i have but just come and am with the ...
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off this done about me like black and white ing till i longed to punch their heads they pull my coat off and my trousers then thej me into bed this done first one m a run and me in and over ma then like a ram and me in looks at the work and puts the artful at tlie and behold me and then the beneficent with a ty grin th...
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in the course of eighteen months and that he preached a funeral sermon on each of the occasions from his sermon on the death of e the fourth i make the following extract of his manner of preaching only that i select a passage from that particular sermon not because i think it better than others of his published funeral...
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denied it sure enough said grimly before he died told me he had her to speak what more did the count reveal to you mrs � the conspiracy yes he said he d found mark hiding at half mad with and had taken him up to mrs clear s where it seems he went mad altogether so they locked him up as her husband in a lunatic asylum a...
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had gone a mile i heard a shrill whistle and suddenly from behind these sprang a number of men quite fifty of them all we could note at the time was that they were savage looking fellows for the most part red haired and bearded although their were rather dark who wore of white goat and carried and i should imagine that...
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man i ll shoot him dead then all story of a sm at once threw himself face downward on the ground crying out mother mother f running to him showed him his telling him that they would both go to see presently but thrust him away you re too little he said you can t understand she s no said s dead � put over his head but s...
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money out of and that the seal would go to a hot place when he died was nearly crying with fear and old age he kept walking up and down the room in the half light repeating his son s name over and over again and asking if the seal ought not to make a in the case of his own landlord pulled me over to the shadow in the r...
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and or i would have set hand to it the master of ll be a says l and a grand i ken by him said he i wi no it ll be that you u be dealing with said i ah but i ll no tell ye that said little need when i ken was my retort there s just the ae thing ye can be fairly sure of says and that is that try as ye please i m no deali...
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the but few of them can have been more terrible than that of sixty five years ago which mr describes from to still the miracle goes on here i must explain for the benefit of those readers who may be with the conditions which prevail at that this church of the is the joint possession of various christian who have held t...
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water s edge and is built in the style � in front of it is erected a low fort surmounted by a � a fit emblem it might be thought of a church near the small town of and above it i noticed a lake of considerable size from from to the position in which i viewed it it seemed in momentary readiness to its banks and pour its...
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its � the disgrace of churches and the of states � that even make it a question with not men whether on the whole christianity has done more of good or of mischief in the world � that make it no question at all but that if christ were to come again he would be again by the chief priests what shall we do with christiani...
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will try to gather a few the most like gold that it may be guessed by the charitable whether or not a once flowed there if there be miracles they are those that are in our own breast what we do not know we call by that name how astonished almost how ashamed are we when the inspired moment comes and we get to know them ...
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merit than smelling like a livery stables and being able to walk across me more like a fly than a human being while the horses were at a a distrust of myself which has often beset me in on small occasions when it would have been better away was assuredly not stopped in its growth by this little incident outside the coa...
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� certainly mr john is an affectionate father the children are all fond of him and then their uncle comes in and them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way but they like it papa there is nothing they like so much it is such enjoyment to them that if their uncle did not lay down the rule of their taking turns whiche...
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day said mr offering hand glad to have seen you in writing by post � in new south wales � or in co with him through have the ness to mention that the particulars and our long account shall be sent to you together w the balance for there is a balance good day we shook hands and he looked hard at me long as he could see ...
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who lay flat on his face kicking and groaning at intervals she upon the major with so much vehemence that he was almost carried away by the sudden oh you wretch what have you done she panted scarcely able to articulate done madam asked the major gravely yes what have you done to that poor miserable creature � there she...
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i can feel gratitude and i assure you that i feel it towards our mutual friend many s the day and many s the in which he has backed me staff and nonsense said mr arthur could not but glance at daniel in the silence though it was evidently in the grain of his character and of his respect for his own case that he should ...
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scripture was less likely to run into than the friend he was also less quick to gain new and modern views of refusing to with man the conscience of the forefathers did not shrink from selling indians captured in war into slavery or from buying slaves who appeared to have come into bondage otherwise than by downright th...
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the saints cried is indeed not to be set aside but this is a devil s vow and simple clerk as i i am yet the of the true church when i say that it were mortal sin td fight on such a quarrel what shall two grown men carry malice for years and fly like at each other s throats f no my young clerk no malice black i have not...
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you and you may call him old guilt all the days of your life had set his heart upon her and she was giddy and liked him but his master was resolved that no harm should come of it � more for your sake than for hers � and that that was their business here how could i but believe him i saw soothe and please you by his pra...
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everywhere in the at island and and it was of unusual excellence at cape also at herald and islands water supplied by the was occasionally used during the but as it was from the main without it had that peculiar flavor which rendered it unfit for purposes the articles of food consisting of the regular to which had been...
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public went to work buying up every old cannon he could lay hands on his back yard was soon crowded with broken down and his bam with guns like an when s purpose got wind it was astonishing how valuable that thing became which just now was worth nothing at all best funny stories ha ha thought somebody else is to contro...
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priest was admiring for hadn t his reverence given him the clothes himself and if it weren t for the self same clothes he wouldn t have the pound in his pocket to give the priest to marry him it was yourself your reverence yes i remember very well pat had to tell him that there was work to be the lake had in but he did...
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for angry as she was with for to his own notions and acting on them in defiance of her and she had been so angry that they had hardly parted friends at the ball she could not help thinking of him continually when absent dwelling on his merit and affection and longing again for the almost daily meetings they lately had ...
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then what is a guardian for as if you could ever squeeze a resolution out of might to him not he finds everybody charming i never can get him to abuse he will even speak well of the bishop though i tell him it is unnatural in a clergyman what can one do with a husband who so little to the i hide it as well as i can by ...
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had the least resemblance to the boyish fancies that we used to joke about i assured her that its was quite and expressed my belief that nothing like it had ever been known somehow as i wrote to on a fine evening by my open window and the remembrance of her clear calm eyes and gentle face came stealing over me it shed ...
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he w g lo watch her with from the to ue had thrown him be aa i did for job u me i could not know � i do t ow w � will feel me i hare fo that tc love me i am mother t� i lave or heard of me ah life i i chose better for too being me i did ot k that i deprived of thing worth yoa not with me to that affection have been wor...
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had a broad white face little eyes and grey whiskers it declared it only caught for their good and for the good of the community it assured he was guilty of a grave error of judgment in attempting to interfere it said a great deal about moral responsibility and the heavy obligations persons of wealth and position owe t...
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done i am not going to be crushed in everything depend upon it i ve been more used ban anybody ever was in this world hers she began to cry and sob and may expect the worst treatment from yon i know bat i don t care for that no i don t mr was made so desperate by the load tone in which she spoke that after looking abou...
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desires t nice to miss powers grand hotel have lost all at have learnt that d s returns here to morrow please send me one hundred pounds by him and save me from disgrace will await him at eleven o clock and four on the � � � � � i a chapter v five hours after the despatch of that captain de was rattling along the coast...
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still life or vision in his artistic tenderness of conscience and scrupulous self mastery of hand he so closely mr as once at least to provoke the same doubtful sense of jealous and admiring a notable instance of this refined william excess in conscience is the exquisite of the originally exquisite second line in the t...
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the first comers who had more wants and more elegant that is to say desires than themselves in entering upon a newly discovered therefore the new comers were but taking of what according to the doctrine was their own property � therefore in opposing them the savages were their just rights the of nature and the will of ...
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nothing could restore him with a faith unbroken a character to nothing could do away the knowledge of what the latter had through his means nor remove the guilt of his conduct towards nothing could him therefore in her former esteem nor injure the interests of colonel had mrs like her daughter heard s story from himsel...
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better we can put up with the loneliness said with less zest some friends will come no doubt all this being laid down a travelled was called in � a man of many gifts and great experience � and on a fine morning away and pupil went a great reason urged against accompanying her youthful husband was that his attentions to...
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of the sea i understood � the bay of where boats were and tall hills that looked like tumbled down castles then came more open country � i suppose � with some sheep once a flock of black ones and then the lovely hues of this rain washed world the water under these dark clouds took on a peculiar it looked at times like ...
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for seven months it is rarely accessible except on snow shoes it never in the dense forests which bound it and two thirds of its gaunt are of brown bears wolves deer and on its margin i found an irregular wooden inn with a at the door on which war the of a large bear shot behind tho house this morning i had intended to...
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not help remembering the gossip about tom and the fact that i saw him coming from the red house i wonder if he has not gone to break away from temptation in new he may turn over a new leaf oh i would so like to write to him and to tell him how much i hope for this fresh start but i hardly like to open the envelope i ha...
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this foolish place where the gospel is not christianity but drink he is the little god of the dull brain and hundreds of such little gods ride on the backs of the poor english people keeping them in slavery worse than that of the and chain and how strange are the which punish crime and yet do nothing to prevent it the ...
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had said what he had in jest or to draw miss out and i expected him to say as much when she was gone and we two were sitting before the fire but he merely asked me what i thought of her she is very clever is she not i asked clever she brings everything to a said and it as she has sharpened her own face and figure these...
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that i am not subject to changes the change that i await here is the great change indeed ma am returned mr with a wandering eye little towards the figure of the little on her knee and of her work from the carpet you look nicely ma am i bear what i have to bear she answered do you what you have to do thank you ma am sai...
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and parade they selected midnight for the time and our tiny cabin for the place they were from two to three inches long there were hundreds of them and they walked all over us when we attempted to pursue them they left solid footing rose up in the air and fluttered about like humming birds they were much larger than on...
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man should not appear mrs showed in her face that she fully recognized the difference between a rich bird in hand and a young bird in the bush she looked him curiously up and down i know you would make anybody a very nice husband she said i know that you would be than many men half your age and though there is a great ...
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i ventured eager to continue the conversation because of its novelty it s a nice little he went on but i would n t call it a tub i really did not know how to reply to this last it took me so by surprise � a child of five in little breeches scarcely larger than my two hands making this fine distinction we surely live an...
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over to see them to show s new dress she had promised that mr would do what he could for him jim on the road next month jim went back to the freight service he preferred dick rail to mrs he got him dick was worse than ever his appetite was by he returned to his attack with renewed zest he never tired � never he was per...
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distance in one harmonious view when however you approach them and walk round them you begin to wonder at their colossal size and seek a measuring rod these giants considerably at the base but not more than is required for beauty and safety and the only reason that this seems in some cases excessive is that only a comp...
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had spread themselves along the regardless of the cold rain of the dawn and there they waited the bridge for the flood only kept his men together behind the swell of the guard tower where the stone boats lay tied fore and aft with wire rope and chains a shrill wail ran along the line growing to a yell half fear and hal...
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quietly the rate of wages we are paying the free rents we are giving the shorter hours we are running are all with a unless it be a very small one you and i and the may consent to sacrifice our the other do not so consent and yet we have taken away the income of their property in one sphere of life this is what is know...
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fear i was alone i could hear no calls or cries � only the sound of the waves made hollow and by the fog a panic in a crowd which of a sort of community of interest is not so terrible as a panic when one is by and such a panic i now suffered whither was i drifting the red faced man had said that the tide was through th...
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a good time but those that shoot re supposed to drink beer and perhaps are laid out n a when they drink too much beer beer is � ad for boys j principal some of le buildings in are very old and some are ery new � so new in fact that some of them are o t done yet i saw them building one it is fun to s e them build a hous...
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his according to tlie other on account of his it follows that contrary being ma with equal to explain the fact t alike inadequate no founded on tlie local i of the to explain the in ground must be taken in a spirit and tendency of the writings from this of proposition been given cause which determined in the con of the...
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then present � and so much to the awakening of mr s punctual habits in the opening stage of all bill transactions that he could not be from immediately rushing out in the highest spirits to buy the for his notes of hand but his joy received a sudden check for within five minutes he returned in the of a s officer inform...
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with scorn i should leave you to s tender as it is i must consider now no more talk if you please let me know exactly what took place between you and that thief did not argue further not that he felt any shame but he saw that was too strong for him and felt that his cousin had right on his side would never have admitte...
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any apology that could for the the nay the insolence of it henry at a distance not able even to bid him farewell every hope every expectation from him suspended at least and who could say how long who could say when they might meet again and all this by such a man as general so polite so well bred and heretofore so par...
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famine pack amongst his wild brethren as it was he ran the young wolf down killed and ate him fortune seemed to favor him always when hardest pressed for food he found something to kill again when he was weak it was his luck that none of the larger animals chanced upon him thus he was strong from the two days eating a ...
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