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It was Timothy, the amiable six-foot black snake who faithfully and cordially did his best to keep the presidential mansion from falling down. Without him innumerable mouse-sized holes, gnawed by mouse-sized dinies, would assuredly have brought about its collapse. The president was grateful, but he'd meant to keep Timothy out of sight.
In his present collapse he felt as if he were in a hole underground. Washington arrived on the scene next morning, and for forty-eight hours he barely left the saddle, encouraging the wretched men and exercising an unceasing vigilance. For two long days they were inactive in the rain.
The marshal had then, against the formal orders of his own government, supplied the millions necessary to tide over successive crises as they presented themselves; for it was clear that unless funds were immediately forthcoming the empire must collapse. The French government, however, had censured the marshal's conduct.
A dread seized him lest the phenomenon might vanish altogether before he had had time to discover its character; he gave a sudden leap forward, and to his dismay beheld the figure stagger forward, and collapse in a heap on the lowest stair. In an instant his arms were round her, and two warm living hands came together with a shock of surprise.
"He will go to the house of mourning." "What's the latest?" "Papa was on the verge of collapse this morning, and yet he was striving so bravely and nobly to bear up. No one knows what that man suffers; it makes him gloomy all the time about everything.
Still the roar of it swelled on the ear; yet, strange to say, the roar seemed to have nothing to do with the collapse, which went on piecemeal, steadily, like a game. The crescendo was drowned in a sharper roar and a crash close behind her a crash that seemed the end of all things. . . . The house! She had not thought of the house.
I ought to jump overboard." "We are relying on you," she said again, simply; and I heard her fasten the door behind me as I went out. Dawn was coming as I joined the crew, huddled around the wheel. There were nine men, counting Singleton. But Singleton hardly counted. He was in a state of profound mental and physical collapse.
That which he had, for a moment, dreamed of seeking, and perhaps finding, at Lourdes, naive faith, the happy faith of a little child, was no longer possible, would never bloom again after that collapse of the miraculous, that cure which Beauclair had foretold, and which had afterwards come to pass, exactly as had been predicted. Jealous!
You should give lessons in the art of majestic collapse not that you did collapse, thank goodness! But you came precious near it. Yes, I mean it, I mean it, dear man" Poppy nodded her head at him, leaned across the corner of the table and patted his arm with the utmost friendliness. "I want to terrify you into being more careful.
Friday was spent in preparation and expectation the news of the collapse of the revolt in Dublin not having yet reached them and on Saturday a motor expedition to Ferns resulted in the capture of the post office and barracks.
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