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He had too much ambition, he said, deformed as he was, to be supported as a pauper by the public. Theodore Parker drew immense audiences, not because he pandered to the many, but because he deferred to none. "Thou, and I look not alike at things, friend," he said. Between 1845 and 1860 the...

'Yes,' said Lucy, facing round upon him, all tremulous passion and rebellion, but she could not meet his fixed, tyrannical eye. 'I played a clever trick the other day,' said Ivory. Near it was the ink well and bamboo pen and small squares of paper covered with Chinese characters. Then, and only then...

For, we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings, I shall not see a European again for some weeks. In regard to money and accounts, his character and conduct present the same extraordinary mixture as is seen in everything else that...

We can do a thing for the first time but once; it is but once for all that we can have a pleasure in its freshness. "In file arrayed, With helm and blade, And plume in the gay wind dancing. I have nothing to say to comfort you, dear, except to wait, and the pain may grow less. I can tear away w...

I, too, raised my hands in silent admiration of the mother of all life. The bushes on the sides of the road, and the darkness, compelled us to wade right in. "When you enter the church of Santissima Annunziata, at Florence, your attention is drawn at once to a sort of miniature temple on the le...

Jack took off his cap and made her a bow. He then directed that after his body should have been kept as long as the laws prescribed, it should be buried thus:-- Then the suspicion strikes me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T power-outage which crashed New York City. Had it not ...

As he spoke the door opened, and there stood Dora on the threshold. "Next day a fat turkey had to be killed and plucked, and I had an old newspaper to burn for singeing the feathers. After the observance of the prescribed rites, the band stopped, and withdrew. I particularly recommend the secti...

This joined to num'rous charms that had the belle; He fancied pure a most suspicious Hell,? This man and woman made a deep impression upon me. "Oh, I'll say that," replied Ralph, "because I know it. He was confused as he made his greetings, touched and dropped Lorry's hand, tried to f...

So get yorsel soom bull's-eyes, Louie, an--an'--he looked a little conscious as he slipped the coin into her eager hand--'doan't let on ti your aunt! I see how infinitely vague all this is; but I should very much like to know what you and Mr. "I ought to have told you at once," she said. F...

I say nothing of what you have had from me in the past--your education and all the rest. No; thank you for the thought, but I do not want the letter. "My regard for the young lady is as reverent as yours. Whoever in an evil hour encountered Fatia Negra had a shaking hand for the rest of his lif...