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If it were a dinner-table jest, made over the walnuts and the wine, I would willingly sing ditto; but alas and alack, it is uttered without a smile, in a solemn and magisterial manner, as the last word in science! Toussenel, in his day, asked the naturalists an insidious question. No one, so far as I know, had an answer for the teasing cross-examiner: evolution had not been invented then.
With the idea of water still in his mind, it seemed as if some tumultuous tidal wave were sweeping unseen towards the lagoon, carrying everything before it. He turned with eager eyes, in speechless expectancy, to his companion. Alack! that redoubtable hero and mighty hunter was, to all appearances, equally speechless and astonished.
Now, could the moon show through those deadly wounds, twenty at the least count; and only one such would let the life from out Goliath, or the strongest man in Gath. But see, the other shows a fleet foot; and that silly boy flies after him! Alack! that he will not learn discretion! There they go, across the fields, and not towards the ferry."
Oh that eyes had been left me to note how she pined away! but I had scarce felt how thin and bony were her tender fingers ere the blasts of the cruel March wind finished the work." "Alack! alack! poor Henry," said Richard; "never, never was lady of romaunt so noble, and so true!" "No more," said Henry hastily, leaning his brow on the top of his staff.
And now the new-comer has to take the last ball of the over his first. Alas and alack! The sixth ball is dead on to the middle stump. The Harrovian plays forward. Man alive, you ought to have played back at that! The ball grazes the top edge of the bat's blade and flies straight into the welcoming hands of the wicket-keeper. Two wickets for 33.
It grieves me to think of the good English gold which will go to the enriching of this greedy hawk. And how is the kingdom going to be governed in my absence? Alack the day! The count's dark mocking face was all aglow with triumph as he led his prisoner where some horses were ready waiting for them.
It appears that I was not incapable of appreciating a good sermon when I heard one, for I read of the impression produced upon me by an "admirable sermon preached by Mr. The preacher quoted largely from Jeremy Taylor, "giving the passages with an excellence of enunciation and expression which impressed them on my mind in a manner which will not allow me to forget them." Alack!
Miss Anna came up behind, concealing as best she could the impression made upon her by the husband and wife as they stood in the porch, under the full western light. Alack! here was no happy meeting! and it was no good pretending. Fenwick greeted her with little or no demonstration of any sort, though he and she, also, had never met since the year of Phoebe's flight.
He was roused from his trance by the grasp of the mendicant. "Why stand you gazing on your deed? What's doomed is doomed what's done is past recalling. But awa, awa, if ye wad save your young blood from a shamefu' death I see the men out by yonder that are come ower late to part ye but, out and alack! sune eneugh, and ower sune, to drag ye to prison."
Even up to January, 1850, he is still thinking of New Zealand, and signing himself, "ever, dear Tom, whether I am destined to see you soon, or never again in this world Your most truly affectionate brother." Alack! the brothers never did meet again, in this world which both took so hardly. But for Willy a transformation scene was near.
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