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Even that is an immense and precious boon, I know; but the truth is, I have a just right to beg you to confide in me, from time to time, any fortunate circumstances that befall you, in which I should rejoice, you know, more than if they had befallen myself."
In March there came the first victims, poor writhing creatures, deprived of the boon of air, their seared lungs collapsed and agonized, their faces drawn into masks of suffering. Some of them died in the little house, and even after death their faces held the imprint of horror. To Sara Lee, burying her own anxiety under the cloak of service, there came new and terrible thoughts. This was not war.
Dueane had run into the toll-gate, and came near killing himself and his horse. Wine is a great worker when one gets too much of it inside. It gave employment to the buggy-makers, and put me to bed on that occasion; and I was glad of it when I saw the wrecks it had made of my boon companions of the night before.
And now are Christians to be dumb whilst all this vociferous crowd is calling its wares, and quacks are standing on their platforms shouting out their specifics, which are mostly delusions? Have you not a medicine that will cure everything, a real heal-all, a veritable pain-killer? If you believe that you have, certainly you will never rest till you share your boon with your brethren.
Do you really think that Kate is worse off in being what you call a slave, than that young, free black woman who keeps a stall and sells verses and knives near our Park?" "O dear sir," said he, "liberty is a priceless boon; liberty" "Liberty to what?" said I. "Why," said he, "liberty not to be sold, nor to be beaten, nor to be subject to the wicked passions of a master."
Do thou ask a boon of me. At this, the compassionate parrot craved this boon of him, saying, 'Let this tree revive. Knowing the great attachment of the parrot to that tree and his high character, Indra, well-pleased, caused the tree to be quickly sprinkled over with nectar.
Even the boon of suicide had been denied him, for when he would wriggle into an erect position the rail of his pen was a foot above his head, so that he could not clamber over and break his skull on the stone floor beneath; and when he had tried to starve himself the attendants forced food down his throat; so that he abandoned such attempts.
And these gifts were fortified by a manly intelligence, a profound love of France, and by devotion to her highest interests. The first of her interests was obviously peace; and there now seemed some chance of his conferring this boon on her and on the world at large. On November the 8th and 9th Metternich had two interviews at Frankfurt with Baron St.
At length, after ten years of captivity, the hour of his delivery arrived, but without any judicial investigation or formal acquittal. He was presented with his freedom as a boon of mercy, and was, at the same time, ordered to quit his native country forever.
There is but one thing you can do, which will minister to my well-being—but one boon you can grant me. Will you?" "And do you ask, Lucia?" "Will you swear?" she inquired, with a faint melancholy smile. "Nay! it concerns no one but myself. You may swear safely." "I do, by the God of faith!" "Never seek, then, by word or deed, to learn whither I have gone, or where I dwell. Look!
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