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Marie's nostrils, and he thought how very pleasant it would be if he were lying on the turf under the trees instead of bedridden in this upper chamber, which he had come to hate with a bitter hatred.
He was the Marshal Ney of the Indian nations, until sickness and old age sapped his vitality and ambition. The holding of the last Great Indian Council occurred a little less than two months before his death. Blind and bedridden he could not attend the council.
Liggett had company, although it proved only to be the pretty Miss Sheridan who had called upon Leslie's grandmother on the first day of that mysterious indisposition that had kept the old lady bedridden almost ever since. Alice looked oddly tired, but her eyes were shining brightly, and Norma was charmingly happy and at ease.
Things had not gone well with Jase Mallows. The wound that Bud had inflicted had healed slowly and he had lain long bedridden. He had been the last of the gang to hear the sorry story of how the robbery had failed and the sequel recording the deaths of Lute and his lieutenant. Now Jase heard that Alexander's door was no longer barred to men who came courting and he returned home.
Only, I hope I shall not!" answered Jill, thoughtfully at first, then coming out so decidedly with the last words that it was evident the life of a bedridden saint was not at all to her mind. "So do I; and I mean to believe that you will not. Meantime, we can try to make the waiting as useful and pleasant as possible.
Then the arrival the dark the noise the confusion the terror of the women the screams of little children clinging to their mothers the despair of the old ones, ill and bedridden fire everywhere and men torn from the arms of their loved ones and stood up in a row and shot.
The judge who tried the case had declared to the jury that it was impossible to disbelieve her evidence. That judge was still living, a poor old bedridden man, and in the course of this latter trial his statement was given in evidence. There could be no doubt that at the time Lady Mason's testimony was taken as worthy of all credit.
There were bedridden old women huddled up on mattresses, almost dead with terror. Wounded soldiers lay propped up against the walls; and women and little children, wounded in the fighting around, lay on straw and sacking. Apparently it is not enough to wound women and children; it is even necessary to destroy the harbour of refuge into which they have crept.
M'Laurin, the mathematician, turned his genius to the bettering of the fortifications. Old Dr. Stevenson, bedridden but heroic, kept guard in his arm-chair for many days at the Netherbow gate. The great question was, would Cope come in time? Cope was at Aberdeen. Cope had put his army upon transports. Cope might be here to-morrow, the day after to-morrow, to-day, who knows?
A bedridden neighbour, who wasn't able to call for assistance, witnessed it all from her bedroom window." "Well, I never!" broke in the chorus, with variations. "The interesting part of it is about the seventh pullet, the one that didn't get killed," resumed Blenkinthrope, slowly lighting a cigarette.
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