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None of his works are extant; but as he alone was permitted to make the statue of Alexander, we infer that he had no equals. His favorite subject was Hercules, and a colossal statue of this god was carried to Rome by Fabius Maximus, when he took Tarentum, and afterward was transferred to Constantinople; the Farnese Hercules and the Belvidere Torso are probably copies of this work.
And perhaps it was. I thought I was just as well without it." "Nonsense! Don't let me ever again hear of this foolishness." And then the old man mingled with the happy company. "Come, James, you must drink with me, too," the mother said, a little while afterward. Haley did not seem unwilling, but turned off a glass of wine with an air of real pleasure.
Perhaps it was a foolish distaste for the contact, combined with her frame of mind, which prevented her from noticing facts far from trifles, which came back to her afterward.
For some days afterward he had an uncomfortable sensation of guiltiness whenever he was in Miss Mason's presence; and once he was positive that he caught her looking at him with a curious, intent gaze, as if studying what manner of man he was. He pumped Morrison, the clerk, who had first to vent his personal grievance against Miss Mason before he could tell what little he knew of her.
The second officer smiled at his attempted wit and struck off the bells. He appeared to be quite friendly with Andrews and stopped a moment afterward to chat with him. When we went below to dinner the words of Jim were fresh in my mind. How would Andrews try to get clear of us?
The body, however, afterward, they said, rose to the surface and floated to the shore, where some monks found it, and buried it secretly in their abbey. Another story was that John pretended to be reconciled to Arthur, and took him out one day to ride with him, with other horsemen.
The juries were of course drawn from among those men who afterward fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and, like the presiding judge and the counsel, they sympathized with the Revolutionary cause.
Three years afterward the critics spoke of him as one of the best pianists in Berlin. He studied successively under the greatest masters of the time, Clemcnti, Bernhard Anselm Weber, and Abbé Vogler. While in the latter's school at Darmstadt, he had for fellow pupils Carl von Weber, Winter, and Gansbachcr.
"What do you make of that?" "They want to make terms," laughed Sergeant Brown. "I reckon things are coming our way at last." "Do we want to talk to them?" asked Tom. "Let us make them surrender, and do the talking afterward," came from Sam. "It won't hurt to let them talk," said the police sergeant. "We can do as we please, anyway, after they are done."
We're going to be all right from now on." Angela smiled through her tears. She set the table, exceedingly cheerful. "That certainly is good news," she laughed afterward. "But we're not going to spend any more money for a long while, anyhow. We're going to save something. We don't want to get in this hole again."
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