The Grand Master's TreasureGertreva Publishing Company, 1911 - 289 pages |
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... took the practice when the old man died eight years ago . He was a young fellow just out of law school , full of the devil but straight as a string . He settled right down and is making a name for himself , so I hear . " " How old is he ...
... took the practice when the old man died eight years ago . He was a young fellow just out of law school , full of the devil but straight as a string . He settled right down and is making a name for himself , so I hear . " " How old is he ...
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... took hold of his coat . What was the matter ? Was it weighted down ? Had some one been playing a joke on him ? Surely not . He threw open the folds of the garment to in- vestigate , and there , deep in sleep , lay the rosiest ...
... took hold of his coat . What was the matter ? Was it weighted down ? Had some one been playing a joke on him ? Surely not . He threw open the folds of the garment to in- vestigate , and there , deep in sleep , lay the rosiest ...
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... took off his glasses and nervously rubbed them with his pocket handkerchief . The whole thing was so unpleasantly unusual . The Grand Master turned slightly and looked him full in the eyes ; there was no shadow of re- sentment in his ...
... took off his glasses and nervously rubbed them with his pocket handkerchief . The whole thing was so unpleasantly unusual . The Grand Master turned slightly and looked him full in the eyes ; there was no shadow of re- sentment in his ...
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... took out the small white pearl - headed pin , carefully attach- ing it to the under lapel of his coat , and together the two men read these words : " Miriam's father was an Odd Fellow in good standing . The mother is leaving her child ...
... took out the small white pearl - headed pin , carefully attach- ing it to the under lapel of his coat , and together the two men read these words : " Miriam's father was an Odd Fellow in good standing . The mother is leaving her child ...
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... child is safe . She took desperate chances . Micah , she must have been somewhere in the station when we were . It's strange we didn't see anyone . It's a mystery to me how she did it . Joe ought 21 PART FIRST - FRIENDSHIP.
... child is safe . She took desperate chances . Micah , she must have been somewhere in the station when we were . It's strange we didn't see anyone . It's a mystery to me how she did it . Joe ought 21 PART FIRST - FRIENDSHIP.
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GRAND MASTERS TREAS Gertrude W. (Gertrude Woodbury) Sargent,Gertreva Publishing Company Pbl No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 269 - gainst time or fate, For, lo ! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace ? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone ? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner up its fruit of tears.
Page 93 - s the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven ; It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 55 - Thou hast clothed me, warmed and fed me, Listen to my evening prayer. Let my sins be all forgiven ! Bless the friends I love so well ! Take me, when I die, to heaven, Happy there with thee to dwell ! VI.
Page 71 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 285 - TEACH me your mood, O patient stars ! Who climb each night the ancient sky, Leaving on space no shade, no scars, No trace of age, no fear to die.
Page 1 - Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! I owe thee much.
Page 84 - If she be not fair for me, what care I how fair she be ? " But he did care, and he told himself that the song did him no good.
Page v - I hope it will be received in the same spirit in which it was made." Mr. Bridgeman and Mr. Ives looked at each other steadily, after he had spoken, and Ives again said : " You have said a great deal sir.
Page 18 - There's a room for you, but" — he took off his hat and ran his fingers through his hair — "I don't think you ought to stay here.
Page iii - Thanks for the sympathies that ye have shown, Thanks for each kindly word, each silent token, That teaches us, when seeming most alone, Friends are around us though no word be spoken.