 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 346 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its...that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - History - 1897 - 340 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, and 84 that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 pages
...employment, I have used every effort in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - Presidents - 1900 - 380 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its...that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its...that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from the consciousness of its being a trust too great for my...that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 552 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its...that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 880 pages
...manner that so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it ... from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity." "A kind of destiny" had thrown him into this service, and he could not refuse. Upon his arrival at... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 430 pages
...that so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, ... from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity." " A kind of destiny " had thrown him into this service, and he could not refuse. Upon his arrival at... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 572 pages
...appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect... | |
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You may believe me, my dear Patsy, when I assure you in the most solemn manner that, so far from seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid it, not only from my unwillingness to part with you and the family, but from a consciousness... 
