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ear your motto next your heart and fight for it,-"Death rather than defeat!" "We are able because we think we are able!" "Follow honor!" and the like. These sen

elsewhere, and we are groping in the dim light without her, only remembering her last words and our last promises. Not difficult when we think of the eyes the color of

eyes; father, tall and broad-shouldered, splendid as the gods, in full uniform; father, so brave that if a naval battle ever did come his way, he would demolish the foe in

r and they get under a new roof. Somehow, in times of great trial, calamity, sorrow, the differences that separate pe

ocked since the flood. "I am responsible," she said three or four times each day, to herself, and, it is to be feared, to others! Her heavenly patience in dressing Peter every few hours without comment struck the most callous observer as admirable. Peter never remembered that he had any clothes on. He might have been a r

omium was received sweetly, though there had been moments in her previous history when Nancy would have retorted in a very pointed manner. When she was "responsible," not even had he gone the length of calling

sly for fear that they might break on the way, pasted them on large pieces of paper, and framed them in elaborate red, white, and blue stars united by strips of gold paper. How Captain and Mrs. Carey laugh

as wrong, Kathleen," said Nancy when

al and logical than her sister. "But you have to keep your mind on it so, and never re

e to love somebody or something like fury every minute or you can't do it at all.

ing good, that every night I just say my prayers and tumble into

arines!" remarked N