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The general was delighted. "For my part I believe that any man would be glad to claim your friend as his son. But I am doubly pleased at the thought that your father will no longer object to Headlands marrying your sister." The general was still rattling on asking Harry questions and describing late public events when Mr Hastings entered the room.
I say, with an innocent air of asking for information, and still working hard at the button; "are people always lonely when their husbands are away?" He looks at me strangely for a moment; then, "Of course she is lonely, poor little thing!" he says, warmly; "how could she help it?" A slight pause.
You see I'm in the midst of my toilet, and Scip has just brought up word that a gentleman is in the parlor asking for the young ladies Miss Dinsmore and Miss Carrington. Would you mind going down alone and entertaining him till I come? do, there's a dear." "Who is he?"
It is impossible to justify so extreme a step as abandoning one's command without permission, and especially under circumstances that permitted the orderly course of asking for detachment.
I suppose I shall realise later what I have done in asking such a favour; but at present I cannot think. Come! Come at once! Pain and exultation struggled in my mind as I read; but the mastering thought was that she was in trouble and had called on me me! My dreaming of her, then, was not altogether without a cause. I called out to the groom: "Wait! I shall be with you in a minute!"
Bismarck heard nothing of the treaty till it was completed; the Ministers had purposely refrained from asking his advice on a policy which they knew he would disapprove.
"Hattie is awake now, Bessie, and she is asking for you, and mother has gone downstairs to speak to father." "Thank you, Chrissy dear. I will go to her at once;" and Bessie went hurriedly across the passage. Hattie lay on her little bed with her eyes closed. As she opened them a sudden sweet smile came over her face, and she held out her arms to Bessie. "My own Betty, is it really you?"
Then she had a glass given to each one: all kneeled down, and all, says the account from which we borrow these details, drank, mingling their tears with the wine, and asking pardon of the queen for any wrongs they had done her. The queen granted it heartily, and asked them to do as much for her, and to forget her impatient ways, which she begged them to put down to her imprisonment.
An electric tramcar took him speedily through the Boulevards Regent and Waterloo to the Avenue Louise. A strange diffidence had prevented him from asking at the hotel for directions that would easily have discovered her home.
The refugees at Veii, too, turned in their thoughts to Camillus, and messengers were sent to him at Ardea, where he was in exile, asking him to come to the assistance of his distressed countrymen. Camillus was too proud to accept a command to which he was not called by the senate, while he was under condemnation for an offence of which he did not feel guilty.
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