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They therefore busied themselves, until a late hour, in preparing as much broiled buffalo-meat as would last them for several days. It was near midnight before they thought of retiring to rest. As they had done upon like occasions before, it was agreed that one should keep watch so as to keep off the wolves from the meat while the other two slept.
This space was divided into two parts by a screen of pierced work; the innermost portion had a raised floor or podium, on which stood a table with chairs placed round it in a semicircle. The centre seat was higher and more richly decorated than the others. These chairs were unoccupied; a few deacons in 'talares' of light-colored brocade were busied about the table.
Now she was attempting to analyze her feelings and face the future squarely, for she realized that her affairs neared a crisis, and this, too, not a month after meeting the men. She wondered if she would come to love her uncle's friend. She did not know. Of the other she was sure she never could. Busied with these reflections, she noticed the familiar figure of Dextry wandering aimlessly.
He busied himself with dressing the wounds upon his brother's chest and shoulders, from which the blood still oozed slowly. "What is it?" asked Charles once again; "how did I come to be hurt?" Humphrey made no reply, but a groan burst unawares from his lips. The sound seemed to startle Charles from his momentary calm.
Bertha's expressed wish to employ his best judgment exalted him while it troubled him. For a time the burden of the conversation was his. Haney was in a reflective mood, and Bertha busied with the table service, which she was trying to raise to the level of her honored guests, was distracted. Alice, tired and a little dispirited, added nothing to the youthful spirit of the meal.
Accordingly, on the very eve of his departure, he busied himself with his fencing school, and assumed with his officers and soldiers a careless and unconcerned air, which prevented any one from suspecting his design. In the course of the day he privately sent forward some cohorts to the southward, with orders for them to encamp on the banks of the Rubicon.
He would fight like a rat on general principles." At Rosebank Villa, Madame Alixe Delavigne was nightly busied now in official conferences with Major Harry Hardwicke, who had lingered in the concealment of Anstruther's home. The Captain found abundant time to prosecute his "official business" with his lovely aid in the secret service.
The poor fellow was astonished, but I made him a sign to obey and ask no questions. He brought a large trunk and busied himself with preparations for departure. It was five o'clock in the morning and day was beginning to break, when I asked myself where I was going. At that thought, which had not occurred to me before, I experienced a profound feeling of discouragement.
Sir Francis Drake himself remarks that 'the sight of the terrible fires were to us very pleasant, and mitigated the burden of our continual travail, wherein we were busied for two nights and one day, in discharging, firing, and lading of provisions. It is a curious thing to see entirely deserted a place of entertainment, where great numbers of people are in the habit of assembling.
In desperation she fetched the lamp from the sick-room and passed into her own, and bathed her face in cold water. Then she busied herself with tidying the place up. Anything to keep herself awake. After a while, feeling better, she sat on the edge of her bed to rest. It was a fatal mistake. Her eyes closed against all effort of will. She was helpless. Nothing could have stopped her.