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When he was alone with the officer, he said, "You see that all is against you, and nothing can save you from the death which awaits you. I can, nevertheless, save you, but only on one condition. I know that you belong to the society of the Carbonari. Give me the names of your accomplices in these terrible conspiracies and your life shall be the reward." "Never!" "Consider, nevertheless."
There was a little, barely accentuated emphasis on the one word "yet." The Maharajah thought a minute before he answered. "How many mounted troopers could you raise?" "Who knows? A thousand three thousand according to the soreness of the need." "You have heard I know that you have heard what, even at this minute, awaits the British?
So saying he made a ship's cable fast to one of the bearing-posts that supported the roof of the domed room, and secured it all around the building, at a good height, lest any of the women's feet should touch the ground; and as thrushes or doves beat against a net that has been set for them in a thicket just as they were getting to their nest, and a terrible fate awaits them, even so did the women have to put their heads in nooses one after the other and die most miserably.
Will you, can you you have a heart see me struggle against the rude buffets of an unthinking world! Will you not save me from the Poor-house from the shame that awaits me with greedy clutches, and receive in return the blessing of a friendless woman! Oh! you will, you will release my father! give him back to me and make me happy. Ah, ha!
Then the sharp callipers are closed upon the victim all the moisture in his body is sucked out and his remains, now a dry and shapeless mass, are rested for a moment upon the head of the destroyer, and then jerked far outside the pit! The ant-lion now dresses his trap, and, again burying himself in the sand, awaits another victim.
"You cannot make terms for the Tsar, General, and let me beg of you not to attempt to do so. No power under heaven can save him and his advisers from the fate that awaits them." "And if we refuse your terms, the alternative is what?" "Annihilation to the last man!" A dead silence followed these fearful words so calmly and yet so inflexibly spoken.
To be his jailer will not suffice for the vengeance of the prince. He has not saved me from the scaffold to let me live. Perhaps an eternal prison awaits me in Germany. Better that than death. I can only place myself blindly at the discretion of the prince; it is my sole chance of safety."
The halter awaits the incendiary. Take him away and hang him at the church-door. MOOR. Plague on it! that's an awkward piece of business. Is there no way out of it? FIESCO. No. MOOR. Send me awhile to the galleys To the gallows. Then I'll turn Christian. FIESCO. The church refuses the dregs of infidelity. At least send me drunk into eternity! FIESCO. Sober.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I communicate herewith an abstract of the treaty between the United States of America and the Chinese Empire concluded at Wang-Hiya on the 3d of July last, and ratified by the Senate on the 16th instant, and which, having also been ratified by the Emperor of China, now awaits only the exchange of the ratifications in China, from which it will be seen that the special mission authorized by Congress for this purpose has fully succeeded in the accomplishment so far of the great objects for which it was appointed, and in placing our relations with China on a new footing eminently favorable to the commerce and other interests of the United States.
"Oh, Mr. de Haldimar!" she implored, "in the name of God and of our blessed Saviour, if you would save me from madness, intercede for my unhappy husband, and preserve him from the horrid fate that awaits him. You are too good, too gentle, too amiable, to reject the prayer of a heart-broken woman.
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