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... edge , I am sure we shall hear of her before long . " CHAPTER XXIII . LETTER AND ANSWER . AND we did hear of her ! The next morning a letter was handed to my uncle - as we sat at breakfast , which I seemed 18 THE FLIGHT OF THE SHADOW .
... edge , I am sure we shall hear of her before long . " CHAPTER XXIII . LETTER AND ANSWER . AND we did hear of her ! The next morning a letter was handed to my uncle - as we sat at breakfast , which I seemed 18 THE FLIGHT OF THE SHADOW .
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... morning , with a letter he would find on the hall table . This letter he read to John and me be- fore we parted for the night . It was all we could have wished . He wrote that he could not allow a guest to be interfered with . He was of ...
... morning , with a letter he would find on the hall table . This letter he read to John and me be- fore we parted for the night . It was all we could have wished . He wrote that he could not allow a guest to be interfered with . He was of ...
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... morning . I went in , and gave him the note , but begged him , for my love , to go to bed . In the morning , I said , I would drive him to the station . With some difficulty he yielded - but with no suspicion how much all the time I ...
... morning . I went in , and gave him the note , but begged him , for my love , to go to bed . In the morning , I said , I would drive him to the station . With some difficulty he yielded - but with no suspicion how much all the time I ...
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... morning early in October last , we three were crossing the small extent of cultivated land belonging to the farm of Kalveland , our headquarters , in the usual high spirits and sanguine frame of mind produced by the first day of any ...
... morning early in October last , we three were crossing the small extent of cultivated land belonging to the farm of Kalveland , our headquarters , in the usual high spirits and sanguine frame of mind produced by the first day of any ...
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... morning foray . He has , more - swept all the range of low woodland , and over , by law , the right of lying in wait for and shooting , at any season , any deer , either stag or hind , which does damage to the crops a right which is ...
... morning foray . He has , more - swept all the range of low woodland , and over , by law , the right of lying in wait for and shooting , at any season , any deer , either stag or hind , which does damage to the crops a right which is ...
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Page 332 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 200 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 200 - I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.
Page 46 - Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night : — Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light.
Page 48 - Lord with holy worship. 3 It is the Lord, that commandeth the waters : it is the glorious God, that maketh the thunder. 4 It is the Lord, that ruleth the sea; the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation : the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees : yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.
Page 550 - I formed a noose, and fixed it about my neck, straining it so tight that I hardly left a passage for my breath, or for the blood to circulate ; the tongue of the buckle held it fast. At each corner of the bed was placed a wreath of carved work, fastened by an iron pin, which passed up through the midst of it : the other part of the garter, which made a loop, I slipped over one of...
Page 375 - I break in upon you at a moment when we least of all are permitted to disturb our friends, only to say, that you are daily and hourly present to my thoughts. If the worst* be not yet past, you will neglect and pardon me : but if the last struggle be over; if the poor object of your long anxieties be no longer sensible to your kindness, or to her own sufferings, allow me (at least in idea, for what could I do were I present more than this?) to sit by you in silence, and pity from...
Page 291 - The good Mr John Wesley has done in America, under God, is inexpressible. His name is very precious among the people ; and he has laid such a foundation, that I hope neither men nor devils will ever be able to shake.
Page 291 - It is now two years and almost four months since I left my native country, in order to teach the Georgian Indians the nature of Christianity, but what have I learned myself in the meantime ? Why (what I the least of all suspected), that I, who went to America to convert others, was never myself converted to God; (I am not sure of this).
Page 331 - ... to the wilderness of Paran. 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.