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'Sure! she laughed in American. 'When, after a course of starvation and medicine at Berne University, I found I had to get a new degree for America.... 'You are a doctor? he interrupted. 'And, therefore, peculiarly serviceable as a ship-maid. She smiled again, and her smile in the moonlight reminded him of a rippling passage of Chopin.
It Would be far pleasanter to dwell in the Palazzo Grimaldi, on our warm and sunny gulf, honored and esteemed as the heir of a noble name, than to be cutting heads in Berne; and honest Balthazar does but follow his instinct, in seeking preferment for his son!"
"To Ring it represented not only his captain, but the very glory and pomp of war. "One day the Confederates suddenly stormed our position near New Berne and swept through the camp, driving our entire force before them; and all, including my company, retreated hurriedly across the river, setting fire to a long wooden bridge as we went over.
So after supper I said that as it was not certain that Sara could become my wife I had determined not to accompany them to Berne. The father told me I was very wise, and that I could still correspond with his daughter, Sara said nothing, but I could see she was much grieved. I passed a dreadful night; such an experience was altogether new to me.
"By the way," said Lady Garnett, when the girls had vanished into the building, "of course you know that Philip Rainham's friend the young man who paints and has a moustache, I mean is here, or will be very shortly? He was staying at our hotel at Berne." "Mr. Lightmark, I suppose?" answered the other, without showing her surprise except in her eyes.
A disorder contracted after her first child-bed had left the poor woman in this sad state, and she had borne it for ten years. All the best doctors in France had tried in vain to cure her, and she had come to Berne to put herself into the hands of two well-known physicians who had promised to do so.
And he was by no means in a mood to persuade himself of Webster's guilt. He knew the value of first impressions; and he did not propose to let her clog his thoughts with far-fetched deductions against the young lawyer. She got to her feet with cat-like agility, and, to his astonishment, burst into violent speech: "You're standing there trying to think up things to help Berne Webster!
There was evidently a woman at the bottom of the affair. As soon as that idea occurred to him, Sigismond Planus began to tremble seriously for his cash-box. That old bear from the canton of Berne, a confirmed bachelor, had a terrible dread of women in general and Parisian women in particular. He deemed it his duty, first of all, in order to set his conscience at rest, to warn Risler.
She also gave me the three dresses which she had promised to the Countess of Lascaris, but which that lady had never seen. One of these dresses was furred, and was exquisitely beautiful. I left Lyons equipped like a prince, and journeyed towards Turin, where I was to meet the famous Gualdo, who was none other than Ascanio Pogomas, whom I had summoned from Berne.
"An old country curate," says Zimmerman, "who had all his life resided upon a lofty mountain in the Canton of Berne, was one day presented with a moor-cock. A consultation took place in what manner it should be disposed of at last it was agreed to bury it in the garden!" Epitaph on a notorious Liar. I always lied and lied till death, But now I lie for want of breath.
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