hat we should easily again fall in with them. The nights, to favour our enterprise, had been very dark, so that we might hope to pick out s biblical fonts d, for his own convenience of spying what was going on. Through this knot-hole Eleanor had a fair view of a good part of the deck, savage a .
, so far as a very dainty and shyly given permission went; feeling bitterly that she had brought herself into bonds from which only Mr. Car .
disappointment she was going to bring to so many there. She made her own room without having to speak to anybody; bathed and dressed for br .
Montcalm, who ordered him sent to Montreal, whither he was taken without delay, and where he met a brother American, Colonel Peter Schuyle .
under Paganism--Glory succeeded by Shame--The Army a worn-out Mechanism--The low Aims of Government-- Difficulties of the Emperors--Laws p .
t into their power. They were, it must be granted, savages, barbarians, heathens. Their people, who had been captured as rebels, had been t .
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ittle page, who was prying into a wall closet, that he leaped like a frog, and fell on all fours at the opposite corner of the hearth. His .
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icket on one side, and a little after in one of the bypaths. Edward walkt on with anxious feelings; a boding prest upon his heart; he was u .
d delight, I soon found that I could read with ease and satisfaction. Writing was a more difficult task: to one whose fingers had never bee .
tress of his parents' affairs and could not now be got back again; and the secret hope of the family, Eleanor found, was that James might b .
le, and I believe made his future voyages to waters under a less summarily sanguinary domination. We had also a _soi-disant_ nobleman, of r .
letters. Neither of his hearers made him any answer. Mrs. Caxton sat opposite to him, deeply attentive but silent, with her hand always lyi .
believe, when we remembered that only two years ago all these people were heathens. O these islands are a glorious place now and then, in s .
your priests, with a few honest exceptions, turned with the tide, and if Oliver had put mass in their mouths would have conformed to it for .
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moose, and is fierce to pull him down, but dares not try, for the moose is too great and lordly. "Mind you, Aleck McTavish, for all we hate .
uddenly--with his own hunger pangs and thoughts of his starving family--swept him into the smoke-house to steal. But he had consented to do .
he had before done. As the fatal day approached I attempted to remonstrate with the young chief on so unnatural a proceeding; but he stern .
thers who live there, always have negroes to help them to wash and dress in the morning, to put on their stockings, and all that sort of th .
not molested, otherwise than by expressions of dislike, either upon alighting, or when taking his place to resume his journey. Politics ra .
overeignty, still monopolized most of the great offices of state--indeed were the controlling power, socially and politically. At no period .