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"Why would not the weight of earth above our heads have crumbled down upon us both, forcing us apart, but burying us equally?" cried Miriam, in a burst of vehement passion. "O, that we could have wandered in those dismal passages till we both perished, taking opposite paths in the darkness, so that when we lay down to die, our last breaths might not mingle!"
She found herself in the same position she had occupied years before; the same danger threatened her happiness with destruction Philip loved Dolores. When the revelation burst upon her, she could not repress a moan, and burying her face in her pillow, she sobbed and wept unheard by Dolores, who was sleeping peacefully only a few feet from her.
Perhaps my action is not a good one, after all, and that is why I suffer." And, burying his head in his arms, he remained thus with his sorrow until his official entered to inquire if he desired lights. It was towards noon of the following day when Caron La Boulaye presented himself at the house of Duplay, the cabinet-maker in the Rue St.
'Send full details of massacre of American citizens by German sailors. Secretary of great Scott!" gasped Stedman, interrupting himself and gazing at his instrument with horrified fascination "the Secretary of State." "That settles it," roared Gordon, pulling at his hair and burying his face in his hands. "I have got to kill some of them now."
Off the coast of Brittany, where the Bay of Biscay fights the white horses of the North Sea, the Island of Guernsey rides at anchor. Its black and yellow, red and purple coast-line, summer and winter, is awash with surf, burying the protecting reefs in a smother of foam.
Hilda used to think that the souls of the blessed would at last take their bodies again, just as the wildflowers in the wood sprang up with their own shape and beauty, each according to the little seed that had lain dead and forgotten since autumn had sighed its dirge above their myriad tiny graves, burying the summer as sadly as men bury those they dearly love.
I will, however, write this in the hope that I can send it, as I do not want to leave your aunt and Bob, for there is much to do, burying and hiding a few valuables in case we are ever able to come back." "Oh!" I exclaimed, and Joeboy half-sprang to his feet, but subsided as I went on: "War has broken out, the Boers having defied the British Government.
Mind you, I don't object to trying him, if it's got to be done to give satisfaction; and I'll be there, and chip in and help, too; but put it off till afternoon put it off till afternoon, for I'll have my hands middling full till after the burying " "Why, what do you mean? Are you going to hang him any how and try him afterward?" "Didn't I say I was going to hang him?
And his head fell backwards, and with his arms clasped convulsively around the necks of Claude and Amanda, the advocate, like his son, was a corpse. On the following day both of them were laid in the English burying ground, but no stone marks the spot, and in vain the stranger seeks to discover it. None are able, or care, to point it out, restrained by a superstitious awe.
Borne in a rude farm wagon, the remains were taken to the Waxhaw burying ground and were interred in a spot which tradition, but tradition only, is able today to point out. The widow never returned to the desolated homestead. She and her little ones were taken into the family of one of her married sisters, where she spent her few remaining years.
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