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Missionary in sentence

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He spoke of the strike, this terrible wretchedness, this exasperated rancour of famine, with the ardour of a missionary who is preaching to savages for the glory of religion.
I have caught you at the same game, Father, play-acting like any missionary ...''Your tender age,' the Jansenist went or gravely, 'the interesting appearance with which Providence has blessed you, the motive itself of your crime, which remains inexplicable, the heroic measures of which Mademoiselle de La Mole is unsparing on your behalf, everything, in short, including the astonishing affection that your victim shows for you, all these have combined to make you the hero of the young women of Besancon.
"You can call it what you like," Tarvin told her, while she gazed at the moon; "you can call it duty, or you can call it woman's sphere, or you can call it, as that meddling missionary called it at church to-night, 'carrying the light to them that sit in darkness.'
If your missionary told the truth in his sermon at church the other night, it would pay the national debt.
The shortest way to that was to go over to call on the missionary.
The missionary's home, which was just without the city walls, was also of red sandstone, one story high, and as bare of vines, or any living thing, as the station at Rawut Junction.
Tarvin got at this through much talk about other things which interested him less; but he began to see an idea in the gold-mining to which the missionary persistently returned.
But you will be undertaking work on a large scale, I judge?" said the missionary, looking at him curiously.
Colonel Nolan's account of the internal policy of the palace, given with official caution, was absolutely different from the missionary's, which again differed entirely from the profane account of the men in the rest-house.
Nothing loath, Tarvin came, and they drove over to the house of the missionary.
What he had found to do was particular enough; it should be done forthwith, and it should bring him first the Naulahka," and then if he was at all the man he took himself for Kate IAs he approached the gates he saw Kate, in a brown habit, riding with Mrs. Estes out of the missionary's garden.
"I do not understand," said the King; "but go to the missionary's house to-day, my son.""I am to come here and play," answered the Prince, petulantly.
As he trotted toward the missionary's house, he looked at the hopeless landscape with new interest, for any spur of the low hills, or any roof in the jumbled city, might contain his treasure.
He asked the missionary what the Cow's Mouth was like, and Estes explained archeologically, architecturally, and philologically to such good purpose that Tarvin understood that it was some sort of a hole in the ground - an ancient, a remarkably ancient, hole of peculiar sanctity, but nothing more than a hole.
Against these enticements Kate, moody, grave, distracted, her eyes full of the miseries on which it was her daily lot to look, and her heart torn with the curelessness of it all, could offer only little childish games in the missionary's drawing-room.
The trick of being lifted from his saddle, appealing to the "circus" latent in the boy breast even of an Eastern prince, struck the Maharaj as so amusing that he insisted on exhibiting it before Kate; and as Tarvin was a necessary figure in the performance, he allured him into helping him with it one day before the house of the missionary.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes came out upon the veranda with Kate and watched the exhibition, and the missionary pursued it with applause and requests for a repetition, which, having been duly given, Mrs. Estes asked Tarvin if he would not stay to dinner with them since he was there.
He sought out Kate at the missionary's, and found her quivering with indignation.
Tarvin, willing to renew his hold on the wholesome world in which there were homes and women, betook himself to the missionary's cottage, where he invited himself to breakfast.
She went on to tell him how, that morning, the barouche, the escort, and a pompous native had hurried up to the missionary's door bearing the almost lifeless form of the Maharaj Kunwar; how she had at first attributed the attack, whatever it might be, to exhaustion consequent upon the wedding festivities; how the little one had roused from his stupor, blue-lipped and hollow-eyed, and had fallen from one convulsion into another, until she had begun to despair; and how, at the last, he had dropped into a deep sleep of exhaustion, when she had left him in the care of Mrs. Estes.
The two returned to the house of the missionary together, saying very little on the way.
The child lay on a bed in an inner room at the missionary's, almost too weak to turn his head.
I do not let him go to the missionary's.
He buttoned his coat tightly across his chest, and patted the resting-place of the Naulahka fondly, as he strode up the path to the missionary's veranda, when he had tethered Fibby outside.
There was a clattering of horses' feet, and a little later the Maharajah's carriage and escort thundered up to the door of the missionary's house.
The sturdy Rajput woman caught her up like a child when they were outside, and set her upon her horse, and tramped doggedly alongside, as they set off together toward the house of the missionary.
At the missionary's gate she had to call up her courage not to break down.
Now, if I were to make a bolt of it to the missionary's they'd have me, wouldn't they?" muttered Tarvin to himself.
As he drew rein instinctively opposite the missionary's door and looked for a instant at the city, the sense of the otherness of daily-seen things that heraldsswift-coming change smote the mind of the American, and he shivered.
The reiterated and passionate farewells of the women in the palace, and the cyclonic sweep of a wedding at which Nick had altogether refused to efface himself as a bridegroom should, but had flung all their world forward on the torrent of his own vitality, had worn her out; the yearning of homesickness she had seen it in Mrs. Estes's wet eyes at the missionary's house an hour before lay strong upon her, and she would fain have remembered her plunge into the world's evil as a dream of the night, but"Nick," she said softly.
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