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No, like my title, like my power, like myself, so is the people that thou sayest await me a dream, my father, a dream!" He spoke gravely, without sadness, the same gentle, wistful smile playing about his lips. The other sank back with a groan. "The All-Highest pity me!" he exclaimed bitterly. "A child of blood and battle, without energy, without ambition!"
The plan was adopted, and Lee determined to detach a column of about twenty-one thousand men, under Jackson, to make the attack on the next day. His plan was to await the arrival of Jackson at the point selected for attack, meanwhile engaging the enemy's attention by demonstrations in their front.
"It may be so," returned the other, lightly, "nevertheless I will live in the hope of seeing the interests of peace more intelligently advanced than they have been of late; and if the system which I suggest is not found to be the best, I will rejoice to hear of a better, and will do my best to advocate it in the Evergreen Isle. But now I must go; Blue-eyes and Cyprus await me. Farewell."
Suffice it to say, that Corrie was now convinced of the good faith of Gascoyne, whom he at once led, along with Mr Mason, to the tent where Alice and her friends slept leaving Thorwald and his men where they were, to await further orders.
Here he dismounted, and sat down to await the return of his brothers. Basil's chase proved a longer one than he had expected. He had chosen the biggest of the birds; and, no doubt, the strongest and toughest. His gobbler, at the first flight, made a clear stretch of nearly a mile; and, when he alighted again, ran like a scared cat.
The infinite galleries of the Past await but one brief process and all their pictures will be called out and fixed forever. We had a curious illustration of the great fact on a very humble scale. When a certain bookcase, long standing in one place, for which it was built, was removed, there was the exact image on the wall of the whole, and of many of its portions.
Both of his listeners expressed their willingness to serve him in the matter, and Frank dismissed them, with instructions to await his further orders. Mrs. This letter she gave to her maid, Susan, to convey privately to the black.
In December the two armies went into winter quarters on the two sides of the Rappahannock to await the opening of a very different campaign when the next spring was far advanced. The autumn months of 1863 witnessed in the Middle West a varying conflict ending in a Northern victory hardly less memorable than those of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
His death would have occurred unperceived, and when the little vault of Vaison stone, up in the small square enclosure of pebbles which serves as the village cemetery, where those he has loved await him, came to be opened for the last time, they would hardly have troubled to close it again. Yet the honours paid him were far from being such as he merited.
'This house is thine, said To’ Kâya. 'If thou dost desire arms, go up into the house, and fetch as many as thou canst carry, while I await thy coming. But Tŭngku Pa had had enough, and he turned and fled at the top of his speed. 'Hah! Hah! Hah! Ho! Ho! Ho! laughed To’ Kâya. 'Is this, then, the manner in which the men of the rising generation fight their enemies?
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