This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...were assuming! I wonder if they dreamt that in years to come, when their bones were moldering beneath the moss-grown stones of a little country churchyard (for, mark you! those fellows rarely died in cities)--I say, I wonder if the dream ever came to them that the bearers of their name long after would ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...were assuming! I wonder if they dreamt that in years to come, when their bones were moldering beneath the moss-grown stones of a little country churchyard (for, mark you! those fellows rarely died in cities)--I say, I wonder if the dream ever came to them that the bearers of their name long after would look up to the motto upon the church wall and try to shape their lives according to it. Those words were' a battle-cry then, and they are a battle-cry now. Our ancestors have much to do with our lives, much more than we think. A word or a name reaches into posterity. "Noblesse oblige." And in our modern every-day whirl of existence a chance word let fall here and there may take root somewhere, may find a chink in some mind, and slip in there nestling and concealing itself, but making very sure of its stronghold. Claud Tyars was not an impressionable man; indeed, he was a singularly hard one. His self-sufficiency was not of the bragging order, nor of the aggressive. His habit was to think things out carefully, and then to stick to his decision. Nothing now could turn him from his scheme of rounding Cape Chelyuskin and rescuing the Siberian prisoners to whom his word was pledged. He knew himself to be a determined man. The throes of indecision were quite unknown to him. But a few words spoken by Miss Winter rather worried him as he turned away and went towards Helen Grace to procure himself a cup of coffee. He wondered why she had told him so deliberately that Arctic matters were totally without interest to her, and why her eyes had informed him with obvious intention that his schemes and plans were a bore. It happened that after all he was permitted to have a few minutes of Helen's undivided attention. Having been provided with tea...
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