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"My boy, my boy!" said the vicar, with emotion. "It grieves me to the heart to hear you speak so. Know, that repentance brings us always once more beneath the shelter of divine love! You will think of this by-and- by, Frank: you may carve out a new life for yourself in the new world, and return to us successful. Be comforted, my boy!
As soon as the three were far enough off not to hear her, the girl asked with a shiver, as if some desert-spectre had passed by-and in a low voice "Grandmother, who was that?" The old woman raised her veil, laid her hand on her grandchild's mouth, and whispered: "It was he." "The Emperor?"
"Never mind please don't ask me, Mr. Van Brunt, it's nothing I ought to tell you it isn't any matter." But her eyes were full again, and he still held her fast doubtfully. "I'll tell you about it, Mr. Van Brunt," said Nancy, as she came past them "you let her go, and I'll tell you by-and- by." And Ellen tried in vain afterwards to make her promise she would not.
But now, Ellen, if there is anything you wish to talk to me about, any question you want to ask, anything you would like particularly to have, or to have done for you I want you to tell it me as soon as possible, now, while we can attend to it for by-and- by perhaps we shall be hurried."
'Oh, I may take a look at it again by-and- by, she says indifferently, but nevertheless the probability is that as the door shuts the book opens, as if by some mechanical contrivance. After this, I think, he was as bewitching as the laddie in the barrel to her Was he not always a laddie in the barrel himself, climbing in for apples while we all stood around, like gamins, waiting for a bite?
In a kind of helpless, childlike way, he stood behind her and watched all she did for the child, who waked thirsty, and cried and moaned, but by-and by was soothed to sleep again. His father shuddered as he gazed upon him. "He looks as if he were dead my poor boy!" "You must not look at him, You must go to bed," said Christian, with a gentle authority. "Presently.
As soon as the three were far enough off not to hear her, the girl asked with a shiver, as if some desert-spectre had passed by-and in a low voice "Grandmother, who was that?" The old woman raised her veil, laid her hand on her grandchild's mouth, and whispered: "It was he." "The Emperor?"
Those great box-stalls, with quilts hung before them, would make better bedrooms than the one she had occupied for forty years, and there was a tight carriage-room. The harness-room, with its chimney and shelves, would make a kitchen of her dreams. The great middle space would make a parlor, by-and- by, fit for a palace. Upstairs there was as much room as down.
He was a fortress that required to be stormed, but there was considerable local curiosity about him, so that by-and- by escalading parties were formed, some of which were partly successful. In the first place, Charles Kingsley had never hesitated to come, from the beginning, ever since our arrival.
'He is going through dry places seeking rest, I thought. 'Soon he will return. And sure enough we were to return by-and by. And a jackal pack of seven, that I was somehow expecting to come, came with us. We saw the lights of Alexandra soon, but the people had gone to bed, it seemed. There was no one about anywhere. Then the leading jackal fed foul and lapped long at a great black drain.
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