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I have had no power to do so. You have done as you pleased with that fortune. But I am ready to admit that I have borrowed L5,000 not from your ward, but from you. Alaric was nearly beside himself; but he still felt that he should have no chance of carrying his point if he lost his temper. 'That is ungenerous of you, Scott, to say the least of it; but we'll let that pass.
In what Alaric said about the Admiralty he did not speak truthfully. 'Do you mean to say that Alaric said what was false? 'Inasmuch as he was pretending to express his own opinion, he did say what was false.
But as each impaled victim shrank with agonized terror from the torture, Mr. Gitemthruet would turn round to Alaric and assure him that they were going on well, quite as well as he had expected. Mr. Chaffanbrass was really exerting himself; and when Mr. Chaffanbrass did really exert himself he rarely failed.
I am sure Gertrude wouldn't have him, and I think she's right. He hasn't gumption enough. 'Harry Norman is no fool. 'I dare say not, said the captain; 'but take my word, she'll never have him Lord bless you, Norman knows that as well as I do. Alaric knew it very well himself also; but he did not say so. 'Now, the long and the short of it is this why don't you make up to her?
'Gertrude, Gertrude that I should have brought you to this! 'Never mind, said she; 'we will win through it yet we will yet be happy together, far, far away from here remember that let that support you through all. And now, Alaric, you will come up for one moment and kiss him before you go. 'The man will be impatient.
As soon as I knew anything clearly, I knew that the tree had been pulled away, and that Alaric was bending over me. He had, with ears alert for any sound, and with footsteps kept as near to me as they might be with obedience to my order, come rushing to my aid at the sound at my first revolver-shot. But the distance was so great that he did not arrive until my fight was over. By Roe L. Hendrick
Not be angry with Alaric! Not angry with the man who had forgotten every law of honour, every principle of honesty, every tie of friendship! Not angry with the man whom he had trusted with the key of his treasure, and who had then robbed him; who had stolen from him all his contentment, all his joy, his very heart's blood; not angry with him!
At one extremity of it, congregated in a close and irregular group, stood the wearied and broken-spirited members of the Senate, supported by such of their attendants as had been permitted to follow them; at the other appeared the stately forms of Alaric and the warriors who surrounded him as his council of war.
Attila retreated into Pannonia, and prepared for a new raid in the following year. He came, as Alaric had done, through the Julian Alps; and before spring had gone Aquileia was not, Concordia was utterly destroyed, Altinum became nothing. Nor have these cities ever lived again; out of their ruin Venice sprang in the midst of the lagoons.
What followed is too long to tell. Alaric treated for peace with the ministers of the emperor. But he met with such bad faith and so many insults that exasperation overcame all his desire for peace, and once more the army of the Goths marched upon Rome. The crime and folly of the court of Honorius at Ravenna had at last brought about the ruin of the imperial city.
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