I soon became keenly interested in politics (I suppose it is in the bloodall the men in my family in America were politicians) and in the discussion of the various questions which were rapidly changing France into something quite different.

I was thinking of my family as much as myself.

A bullet went through my side, and another through a child in my arms, and I was made captive, having of my family only one poor wounded babe left.

I, too, was to be paid for my time and trouble,an offer which the low state of my pecuniary affairs, and the necessity of supporting my family, did not allow me to decline.

But I was presently relieved, by the information which I received before long, that during my imprisonment my family would be provided for.

Not only was I greatly indebted to his assistance in making known my necessities and those of my family to those disposed to relieve them, but his cheerful and Christian conversation served to brighten many a dark hour, and to dispel many gloomy feelings.

After a visit of two weeks with my family, I returned to Chicago, and began my work at the Sherman House.

There are certainly not a great many; but I could have shewn him more than two at Balmuto, from whence my ancestors came, and which now belongs to a branch of my family.

The fact is, Baisakh 12th has always been a lucky day in my family and I should like to date my endorsement then.

Her Church interests (undiminished in keenness) provide a store of tales inaccessible to most of my family and their set (except my Uncle Ferdinand, of course, and his are mostly Roman not Anglican).

"I admire your prudence and frankness, my young friend; but, till you show yourself a merchant, of my own sort, I beg you will excuse me and my family from any of the steps you contemplate.

As my family lived in the neighborhood where the President had been reared, my little girl made him a satchel of corn shucks from the field where he had hoed corn barefooted in the briars, thinking he might appreciate a souvenir from his old home.

A fine cluster of them shaded the graves of my family, and a rustic seat had been placed beneath their branches, by order of my mother, who had been in the habit of passing hours in meditation at the grave of her husband.

My family moved also.

I have a right at least to expect your compliance with this requisition; and, upon that condition, I pardon the enormous impropriety and guilt with which you have conducted yourself to me and my family.

Having often gained the prize of composition at the university, I began to hope that I should obtain the same distinction in every other place, and determined to forsake the profession to which I was destined by my parents, and in which the interest of my family would have procured me a very advantageous settlement.

It will be perceived, therefore, that no one could have more complete knowledge of the factsat once from my official position, and from the place of eminence in the affairs of the district generally which my family has held for many generationsby what citizen-like virtues and unblemished integrity I will not be vain enough to specify.

My heart and mind was divided, and so was my family.

When I was fourteen years old my family heard how fine this State was and moved to Helena.

I'd like to see a stain removed from my family, and my name restored; but to touch his property, O, no!O, no! that never entered my mind, by heaven!

He was fond of saying, "My aunt Julia is, maternally, the daughter of kings; paternally, she is descended from the immortal gods; my family unites, to the sacred character of kings who are the most powerful amongst men, the awful majesty of the gods who have even kings in their keeping."

Poverty has always been a burden upon my family.

He then made life unbearable by sending negroes at night in my absence to annoy my family, who escaped injury only by the vigorous use of a revolver by my wife who defended the little ones by numerous shots which sent the tormentors flying to the woods.

Against these sentiments on the other hand I had to urge, that I had been designed for the church; that I had already advanced as far as deacon's orders in it; that my prospects there on account of my connections were then brilliant: that, by appearing to desert my profession, my family would be dissatisfied, if not unhappy.

I was actually afraid to look at the inscription on the tombstone for fear that this was so, for if it was, I knew that whenever I should think of my family tree this bag of bones would be climbing up the trunk, or sitting on one of the branches.