He stopped just in time, and then continued, gravely: "The Duchess of Hazlewood and myself are such true and tried friends that we never think of keeping any secrets from each other.

To see my cousin, with a lamp in one hand and a baby in the other, walk upstairs with ease and grace, while, with flowing robes, I pulled myself up with difficulty, lamp and baby out of the question, readily convinced me that there was sore need of reform in woman's dress, and I promptly donned a similar attire.

There are two classes of housekeepersone that will get what they want, if in the range of human possibilities, and then accept the inevitable inconveniences with cheerfulness and heroism; the other, from a kind of chronic inertia and a fear of taking responsibility, accept everything as they find it, though with gentle, continuous complainings.

Among other domestic trials, she had a kitchen stove that smoked and leaked, which could neither bake nor broil,a worthless thing,and too small for any purpose.

Letters and telegrams, persuasions, arguments, and warnings from Mr. Garrison, Mr. Phillips, and the Senator on the one side, and from Lydia Mott, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet, and Abby Hopper Gibbons, on the other, poured in upon her, day after day; but Miss Anthony remained immovable, although she knew that she was defying and violating the law and might be arrested any moment on the platform.

What seemed to me to be right I thought must be equally plain to all other rational beings.

"My Dear Lydia Mott: "I have wished, ever since parting with thee and our other dear friends in Albany, to send thee a line, and have only waited in the hope of contributing a little 'substantial aid' toward your neat and valuable 'depository.'

By law, public sentiment, and religion,from the time of Moses down to the present day,woman has never been thought of other than as a piece of property, to be disposed of at the will and pleasure of man.

Like the Quaker marriage, which the parties conduct themselves, so, in this case, without any statement of their disagreements, the parties might simply declare that, after living together for several years, they found themselves unsuited to each other, and incapable of making a happy home.

We had a low, easy carriage, drawn by two mules, in which we stored about a bushel of tracts, two valises, a pail for watering the mules, a basket of apples, crackers, and other such refreshments as we could purchase on the way.

Like all other things, it requires great discretion in sowing leaflets, lest you expose yourself to a rebuff.

As Miss Anthony had other pressing engagements in Kansas and Nebraska, I went alone to Texas, speaking in Dallas, Sherman, and Houston, where I was delayed two weeks by floods and thus prevented from going to Austin, Galveston, and some points in Louisiana, where I was advertised to lecture.

I shall never forget the hopeless expression of one young man, who had just been sentenced for twenty years, nor how ashamed I felt that one of my own sex, trifling with two lovers, had fanned the jealousy of one against the other, until the tragedy ended in the death of one and the almost lifelong imprisonment of the other.

[Illustration] 4. Consider the influence you may have upon the other institutions of our country, by attaching yourself to some one under the existing organization.

At other times, as in a common district or town school, they are by law organized, and the school committee chosen for this purpose are their legal representatives.

In other instances, a board of trustees are constituted by the appointment of the founders of the institution, or by the Legislature of a state, to whom is committed the oversight of its concerns, and who are consequently the representatives of the founders and patrons of the school.

He will, on the other hand, enjoy the satisfaction of feeling that he confines himself to his proper sphere, and leave to others the full possession of rights which properly pertain to them.

The teacher remains, perhaps, a few months with his charge, and then goes to other places, and perhaps hears of them no more.

Now there is no other plan which will not be attended with very serious difficulty, but I am willing to adopt the one which will be most agreeable to yourselves, if it will be likely to accomplish the object.

Both were written by pupils of the same age, twelve; one a boy, the other a girl.

The view down the gulf of color and over the rim of its wonderful wall, more than any other view I know, leads us to think of our earth as a star with stars swimming in light, every radiant spire pointing the way to the heavens.

One's most extravagant expectations are indefinitely surpassed, though one expect much from what is said of it as "the biggest chasm on earth""so big is it that all other big things,Yosemite, the Yellowstone, the Pyramids, Chicago,all would be lost if tumbled into it."

Of the one beneath our feet we see only fragmentary sections in cirques and amphitheaters and on the sides of the outjutting promontories between them, while the other, though far distant, is beheld in all its glory of color and noble proportionsthe one supreme beauty and wonder to which the eye is ever turning.

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Moreover, it would be found in the latter case that the bow would be much harder to bend than where the pieces were not glued togetherin other words, the stiffness of the bow would be materially increased.