It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.

Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.

The Ruticilla, or the small Redstart, Red-Tail, Fire-Tail, or Star-Finch, a beautiful song-bird, entertains us all summer, and disappears on the approach of winter.

On the other hand, the secularists should “Salafize” their human-centered concept of religion as not an end in itself as the Salafis claim, but merely a way of ensuring that people remain content while realizing their self-interest.