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I see before me the loveliest vision that ever blessed the eyes of man, or else I have overtaken the enchanted princess. Oh, princess! it was cruel of you to lure one over that treacherous hedge!" Marianne looked alarmed. "Poor, poor young man!" murmured she in a low voice, "he is delirious. I must moisten his head again."
Flip, with a cry, sprang toward it; but Lance caught her by the waist with one arm, as with the other he dragged the bundle from the flames. "Don't be alarmed," he said, gayly, "it's only" "What?" said Flip, trying to disengage herself. "My coat and trousers." Flip laughed, which encouraged Lance to another attempt to kiss her.
I felt very much alarmed lest Tommy should be discovered in his hiding-place; and after the captain had stated that he had particular business with the first lieutenant, it was my duty, knowing that Mr Dott was there, to have said so. I hardly knew what to do, or how to act. After all, it was no great crime as it stood.
So instantaneous were the operations of these experienced tacticians, that Lovett's orders were almost executed in a briefer time than it had cost him to give them. "Do not be alarmed, my lord, you are perfectly safe; we only require your watch and purse."
Luna remembered the bell-ringer's offer, but soon he heard the sound of many steps magnified by the echo as if a whole host were advancing. "Who goes there?" shouted Gabriel, rather alarmed. "It is us, man," answered from the darkness the husky voice of Mariano. "Did I not tell you we should come down?"
We rode together, keeping a sharp look-out, in case we might have been followed by any prowling inhabitant of the wilds. As we drew near the camp, a bright blaze appeared from one side to the other, and I could not help being alarmed at the thought that the waggon and tents, surrounded by dry grass, might have caught fire. Mr Fraser, however, quickly calmed my fears.
But, alas! they refused to lay down their arms, or leave them behind; nor would they either refrain from going or suffer me to go alone. Pledging them to peace, I was reluctantly placed at their head, and we marched off to the village of the unfriendly party. The villagers were greatly alarmed. The Chief's two sons came forth with every available man to meet us.
The minds of the enemy being alarmed by this calamity, so that they were influenced by some terror, even after it had abated, the Romans both augmented the number of their colonists at Velitræ, and despatched a new colony to the mountains of Norba, to serve as a barrier in the Pomptine district.
Suddenly a gun was fired, and as if at the signal the whole of the infantry rushed forward towards the officers, yelling and firing, and the latter at once turned their horses and rode towards the courthouse. "Don't be alarmed, my dear," the Doctor said to Isobel; "I don't suppose anyone is hit.
"Well, I've done it," said the latter, jovially. "Open Monday, Come around and eat with me." "But how did you manage it?" "Oh, I took a tip. I made Ruef my attorney. Big retaining fee," he sighed. "But well, it's worth the price." By the end of Schmitz' second term the Democrats and Republicans were thoroughly alarmed.
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