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"My request, my lord," he said, "is to be a very strange one; a request that will put you to some expense, though not a very great one; and will give you some trouble, though, would to God both the trouble and expense could be undertaken by myself." "Perhaps," said the Earl, turning his eyes to the boy, "it may be better, sir, that we speak alone for a minute or two.
A few days later Justin was carried off by disease, after a reign of nine years, and Justinian and Theodora reigned alone. Thus did Theodora, as I have told you, in spite of her birth and bringing-up, reach the throne without finding any obstacle in her way.
Then, seeing that he looked vexed and worried, and realizing that she was perhaps treating him too roughly, she continued, more gently: "Remember, Claudet, that I am living all alone at the farm. That obliges me to have more reserve than a girl whose mother is with her.
Just for a moment Pen was somewhat consoled by this reflection. But presently a fresh terror seized her. It would be so awful when she was left alone and there was only a dead Pauline and a dead Harry to keep her company. She had never seen anybody die, and had not the least idea what death meant. Her terrors grew worse each moment.
Parley eagerly pulled down the bars, drew back the bolts and forced open the locks; thinking he could never let in his friend soon enough. He had, however, just presence of mind to say, "My dear friend I hope you are alone." Flatterwell swore he was Parley opened the door in rushed, not Flatterwell only, but the whole banditti, who always lurked behind in his train.
But there was no elation in his gait, which kept pace with the action of his sombre mind. Hook was profoundly dejected. He was often thus when communing with himself on board ship in the quietude of the night. It was because he was so terribly alone. This inscrutable man never felt more alone than when surrounded by his dogs. They were socially so inferior to him. Hook was not his true name.
It is believed that he contrived to see Madame Alois in private; and if that great purple cape that held him in talk for nearly an hour by a windy corner of the Prè-aux-Clercs did not cover the back of Montferrat, then Gossip is a liar, Richard, for his part, took no account of John and his shifts; a wave of disgust for the creeping youth had filled the stronger man, and having got him into Paris there seemed nothing better to do with him than to let him alone.
Upon one condition, however, and upon one alone, the lives of the culprits were to be spared that of Zamore's conversion to Christianity. What need is there to say that the noble Peruvians did not hesitate for a moment? 'Death, rather than dishonour! exclaimed Zamore, while Alzire added some elegant couplets upon the moral degradation entailed by hypocritical conversion.
To my surprise, the creature had an ISM of his own, to which he was loyal; and he left me to go alone to the cathedral or perhaps not to go at all and stole off down a deserted alley to some Bethel or Ebenezer of the proper shade. When we met again at lunch, I rallied him, and he grew restive. "You need employ no circumlocutions with me, Mr. Dodd," he said suddenly.
Indeed the literature of expert art criticism on Florentine pictures alone is of alarming bulk and astonishing in its affirmations and denials.
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