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But we are restored to each other at last, I am happy to say!

Why shouldn't I be happy, now that I know I'm going to see her again very soonand take her back into the South with me?" "The devil!" grunted Jean.

Why shouldn't I be happy?

I am happy to say she is at present pretty well, although your dear Mother's death appears to dwell much upon her mind.

In those relating to foreign powers, I am happy to state that peace and amity are preserved with all by a strict observance on both sides of the rights of each.

All I now wish is, that I may procure some permanent situation (and this, thank God, I have good hopes of), and then I shall never cease entreating your consent to my rescuing this poor girl, and thus making, I may say, all of us quite happy, as well as Constanze and myself; for, if I am happy, you are sure to be so, dearest father, and one-half of the proceeds of my situation shall be yours.

Writing of her cousin Gilbert Elliot, afterwards Dean of Bristol, for whom she felt both affection and respect, she says: "In the evening Cousin Gilbert talked a great deal, and not only usefully but delightfully, about different religious sects and against the most illiberal Church to which he belongsbut how could I be happy?

I am happy to inform you that the governor and other civil officers of Utah are now performing their appropriate functions without resistance.

I am happy to announce that since the last Congress no attempts have been made by unauthorized expeditions within the United States against either of those colonies.

Of the latter I am happy to be able to present you with the above view.

Now shall I be happy again as far as that is concerned.

Instead of finding fault with what has been gained, I am happy to see a disposition in the United States to do so much.

But I cannot think of these things now; I am happy in thinking that you are safe.'

having taken place since the date of his will, a suit was instituted by the heirs-at-law to recover the same; in which, I am happy to say, they were successful.

But this will not always answer; for how can I be happy away from her?

How can I be happy when I feel that I have brought upon you so long a period of discomfort?"

And if you are happy at the North Pole shan't I be happy there too?

When I even think of it, I am happy.

How can I be happy, and that man poisoning the air I breathe?

How can I be happy, and my brother Robert what I have made him! AUNTIE.

Could I be happy under those conditions?

My country is where I am happy, and where I am beloved!"

RIMBAULT (No. 12.) has made rather a grave charge against my predecessors in office as churchwardens and overseers of this parish; and although, I regret to say, such accusations of unjust stewardship and dereliction of duty are frequently and with justice imputed to some parish officers, yet I am happy to be able, in this instance, to remove the stigma which would otherwise attach to those of St. Antholin.

How could I be happy with any of these men, seeing that I do not care for them in the least?