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Poor Angelo was found with his throat cut, and quite dead, with my miniature pressed to his heart. 'Delightfully romantic! exclaimed Josephine 'how I should like to have a lover kill himself for my sake! But the brilliant eyes of her mother were suffused with tears. Just then a servant in livery entered and announced 'Dr. Sinclair is below, and craves an audience with Mrs.
'My master salutes thee, answered the slave, 'and craves thy company to a banquet in his house. Quoth the youth, 'I must consult my father Kemaleddin, the captain of the caravan. So he consulted the muleteer, who said, 'Do not go. Then they left Damascus and journeyed on till they came to Aleppo, where Mehmoud made a second entertainment and sent to bid Alaeddin; but the muleteer again forbade him.
It is the fashion in New England to give Indian names to the public houses, not that the late lamented savage knew how to keep a hotel, but that his warlike name may impress the traveler who humbly craves shelter there, and make him grateful to the noble and gentlemanly clerk if he is allowed to depart with his scalp safe.
"Shir Jumla Khan untied the packet, and produced therefrom a heavy gold signet ring. While he was examining this, the seeming goatherd raised his voice: "'O prince of princes, protector of the poor and oppressed, by the token in your hands know that I who wear this humble disguise am the son of Mustafa Khan, thy brother chieftain, who craves a refuge within the walls of this God-guarded citadel.
Now I am sent to say that the noble Marquis of Morella craves leave to see you, Dona Margaret, and within an hour. So there is no time to lose." "Tell us what you have done, Inez?" said Margaret. "I have seen your worshipful father, Dona Margaret; here is the token of it, which you will do well to destroy when you have read."
His head drooped at the grave tone, and Molly choked back something she was about to say. "Could you really bear to see that little darling suffer, Morton? You know you couldn't! We all know he never meant to do such mischief. Look at his innocent little face this minute; could you see it grow thin and pale for lack of the food he craves?" Morton gave one look, and melted.
But my house is full now. I ain't got no room for't." It sold for twelve cents! Arthur Helps says that human nature craves, nay <i>enjoys</i>, tragedy; and when away from dramatic representation of crime and horrors and sudden death, as in this quiet country life, the people gratify their needs in the sorrows, sins, and calamities that befall their neighbors.
Nor from his patrimonial heaven alone Is Jove content to pour his vengeance down: Aid from his brother of the seas he craves, To help him with auxiliary waves. Let loose the reins to all your watery store; Bear down the dams and open every door."
Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Just then there was a knock at the door, and Potemkin, who was standing with his fist clinched and his teeth set, fell back into his seat. "How dare you disturb me?" cried he, savagely. "Pardon me, your highness, but this is your day for receiving the foreign ambassadors, and his excellency of Austria craves an audience?" "Cobenzl? Is he alone?" "Yes, your highness."
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