Around Old ChesterA.L. Burt, 1915 - 377 pages |
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Page 71 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 339 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his ox, if you love me as I love you no knife can cut our love in two.
Page 176 - I'd do it again. I'd do anything to protect her. But I hope I was polite ?" Then she thought how courageous Mrs. Cyrus was. "She's as brave as a lion!" said Mary North. Yet, had Miss North been able to stand at the Captain's door, she would have witnessed cowardice. . . .
Page 146 - Ah! will ye despise — ah! will ye despise the blood of Jesus? Will ye pass by the cross, the cross of Jesus ! Oh ! oh ! oh ! will ye crucify the Lord of glory ? will ye put Him to an open shame? He died, He died...
Page 180 - My daughter-in-law is crying her eyes out," the Captain sighed. "Tck!" said Mrs. North; "Alfred, you have no sense. Let her cry. It's good for her!" "Oh no," said the Captain, shocked. "You're a perfect slave to her," cried Mrs. North. "No more than you are to your daughter," Captain Price defended himself; and Mrs.
Page 173 - That's what I told him," said Cyrus. By the end of April Old Chester smiled. How could it help it? Gussie worried so that she took frequent occasion to point out possibilities; and after the first gasp of incredulity, one could hear a faint echo of the giggles of forty-eight years before. Mary North heard it, and her heart burned within her. "It's got to stop," she said to herself, passionately; "I must speak to his son.
Page 175 - Of course he will!" Gussie broke in; "Cyrus, he is in the cabin now." "Well, to-morrow I—" Cyrus got up and sidled towards the door. "Anyhow, I don't believe he's thinking of such a thing.
Page 177 - Oh, don't blaspheme!" said Gussie, faintly, and staggered a little, so that all the Captain's terror returned. If she fainted! "Hi, there, Cyrus! Come aft, will you? Gussie's getting white around the gills—Cyrus!
Page 153 - ... swear undying constancy. Alfred's lantern came twinkling through the flakes, as he threaded his way across the hillside among the tombstones, and found Letty just inside the entrance, standing with her black serving-woman under a tulip-tree. The negress, chattering with cold and fright, kept plucking at the girl's pelisse to hurry her; but once Alfred was at her side, Letty was indifferent to storm and ghosts. As for Alfred, he was too cast down to think of them. "Letty, they will part us.
Page 150 - There was romance for you ! To be sure, the elopement had not quite come off, but, except for the very end, it was all as perfect as a story. Indeed, the failure at the end made it all the better: angry parents, broken hearts, — only, the worst of it was, the hearts did not stay broken! He went and married somebody else; and so did she. You would have supposed she would have died. I am sure, in her place, any one of us would have died. And yet, as Lydia Wright said. " How could a young lady die...