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The driver of the pack-horses, as he comes up the narrow path in the side of the gorge, cringes his sturdy cheerfulness as if to obliterate himself, drawing near to the large, pale Christ, and he takes his hat off as he passes, though he does not look up, but keeps his face averted from the crucifix.
Its consequences to others from the destruction of the will, have been averted by the prompt transfer of all the property which Gen'l Darrington left, to his chosen heir Prince. Pecuniarily no one was injured by your act. Dear Bertie Bertie, are you listening?" He smiled but made no answer, and his eyes had a strained and exultant expression.
He even served as a spy and betrayed Philip's plans to the English at imminent risk of his life, doing his utmost to save Lancaster from destruction. General Daniel Gookin acknowledged that Quanapaug's information would have averted the horrible massacre of February 10, 1676, had it been duly heeded.
The Duke of Valentinais averted this inconvenience in the prompt and efficacious fashion characteristic of him alone. One morning the inhabitants of Cesena awoke to find a scaffold set up in the square, and upon it the four quarters of a man, his head, severed from the trunk, stuck up on the end of a pike. This man was Ramiro d'Orco.
After a little delay, however, they descended to the apartments below, and as Jacopo desired to quit the palace without re-entering the prisons, Gelsomina prepared to let him out by the principal corridor. "Thou art sadder than common, Carlo," she observed, watching with feminine assiduity his averted eye.
"Well?" prompted the Master, "do you want those cartridges back?" Wefers favored him with a scowl of utter dislike. Then, his eyes again averted, the wet man mumbled: "I come over here today, to do my dooty. Dogs that get bit by mad dogs had ought to be shot. I come over here to do my dooty. Likewise, I done it. I shot that dog of yours that got bit, yest'day." "Huh?" ejaculated the Master.
To this alarming intimation, the youth who was addressed made no reply; but as he averted his face, and concealed it with both his hands, the offended seaman, believing that a salutary impression had been made upon the fears of his auditor, was about to proceed with his interrogatories.
He is the king, Gretchen, the king." "Uncle!" in anguish. "Let us have it over with," replied Prince Ludwig sadly. "The king?" Gretchen laughed shrilly. "What jest is this, Leopold?" The king, still holding her hands, looked down. "Leopold?" plaintively. Still he did not speak, still he averted his head. But God knew that his heart was on the rack.
The danger was averted; but it soon became known that the Indians had stolen a number of blankets and other articles, and carried them to their wigwams. Unwilling to leave his camp, La Salle sent his nephew Moranget and several other volunteers, with a party of men, to reclaim them.
And with hideous blasphemies trickling from his thick lips, he again shook his fist impotently at the derisively smiling face of the moon and slunk away to the horse tied in the shadows behind him. In blissful ignorance of that narrowly averted calamity, the pair on the other side of the ridge rode silently along in the restored moonlight.
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