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Victoria sat regarding him silently, as he walked to the mantelpiece, rearranged a few silver objects standing upon it, and then turned confronting her again. "You have made Mr. Faversham your heir?" she asked him after a pause. "I have. And I shall take good care that he does nothing with my property when he inherits it so as to undo my wishes with regard to it."
Barron's as I had promised. I talked to people I laughed I even danced. But never for a moment did the fear cease gripping at my heart. At last I could stand it no longer. I felt that I must go to where this danger was confronting Allan; and as the house in Christie Place was the first that arose in my mind, I went there.
Billy looked at him in surprised interrogation, and was amazed to see a heavy frown drawing the colourless brows. There was a fiery look in the pale eyes also that he had never seen before. He waited in silence for developments, being of a wary disposition, and in a moment Scott spoke in a voice of such concentrated fury that Billy felt as if a total stranger were confronting him.
I attempted to follow with equal speed, but was less successful. "Hallo!" cried the foremost of the group, placing himself in my way. "No such haste! Art Whig or Tory? Under which king, Bezonian? speak or die!" "Have a care, Sir," said I, fiercely, drawing my sword. "Treason, treason!" cried the speaker, confronting me with equal readiness. "Have a care, indeed! have at thee."
I stopped while I spoke then advanced a few steps gently then stopped again and so approached by little and little till I was close to her. If there had been any doubt still left in my mind, it must have been now set at rest. There, speaking affrightedly for itself there was the same face confronting me over Mrs. Fairlie's grave which had first looked into mine on the high-road by night.
He rode on to Farmville and was on his way back again when he found his return cut off, and Washburn confronting apparently the advance of Lee's army. Read drew his men up into line of battle, his force now consisting of less than six hundred men, infantry and cavalry, and rode along their front, making a speech to his men to inspire them with the same enthusiasm that he himself felt.
Barricades were instantly constructed, which arrested the progress of the troops. As by magic, fire-arms appeared in the hands of the populace. Notwithstanding the general tumult and consternation, order emerged from the chaos. Every house became a citadel for the insurgents, and two armies were found confronting each other.
Such was the predicament in which I usually found myself on Christmas eve; and it was not without a certain sense of annoyance at the task thus abruptly confronting me that I got into my automobile and directed the chauffeur to the shopping district.
After the surrender of Fort Donelson, the force confronting Halleck was the command of General Beauregard, stationed at Columbus, Island Number Ten, at Forts Pillow and Randolph, at Memphis, and at convenient points on the railroads in Mississippi. The next objective point that presented itself was Memphis, and, as preliminary, the fortified points on the river above it.
"This ship's mine," cried Moran, backing to the cabin door. Wilbur followed her, and the Chinamen closed down upon the pair. "It's not much use, Moran," he muttered. "They'll rush us in a minute." "But the ambergris is mine is mine," she answered, never taking her eyes from the confronting coolies.
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