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He was himself a victim of the tender passion to the extent of being an exile from his Virginia home, which he had left on account of dangerously wounding a rival. But he was well touched with the backwoodsman's taste for joke and banter.
Death had already swept many of these men away, and several others were very dangerously sick. It was evident that the savages were lurking about, watching them with an eagle eye, and with most manifestly unfriendly feelings. The colonists were in no condition to repel an attack, and the most fearless were conscious that they had abundant cause for intense solicitude.
The Mackinaws were flecked far and wide over the lake, and a dirty smudge on the blue showed where the Far Harbor and Beaverton boat had gone over the horizon. But there, over the point and dangerously close to the land, hung another smudge, gradually pushing its way like a writhing, black serpent, lakewards.
"By Jove, that was a narrow one!" he soliloquised as a bullet one of many shot at a venture whizzed dangerously close to his ears and knocked up a number of small fougasses as it ricochetted in the embers. He wanted to breathe. Already the air was on the point of being exhausted in his lungs, yet he durst not gasp for breath. Another twenty yards ... or was it forty?
"Yes?" I said, for she had paused in evident doubt. "Well, she has utterly broken down." "Broken down?" "She came to my room and sobbed hysterically for nearly an hour this afternoon." "But what was the cause of her grief?" "I simply cannot understand." "Is it possible that Colonel Menendez is dangerously ill?" "It may be so, Mr. Knox, but in that event why have they not sent for a physician?"
In which lamentable condition that unhappy Continent has remain'd for the space of almost a Twelve-month, every one therein that were able being forc't to take up Arms for security of their own lives, and no one reckoning their Goods, Wives, or Children to be their own, since they were so dangerously expos'd to the doubtful Accidents of an uncertain War.
'If your partnership scheme fails, try again alone, I said. His blessings pursued me down the steep staircase. His womankind remained shy and dumb. When I got home I found a telegram from the Parsonage. My father was dangerously ill. I left everything and hastened to help nurse him.
Many ply in secret their dangerously graceful callings, and destroy their work when it is done, rather than see it wrested from them, and with it all that is left to them of freedom, to serve the whim of a covetous and cruel master.
Was he not dangerously wounded by some of the machinery? As she said these words, the poor young lady's lips trembled, and I saw large tears standing in her eyes.
It was a hard-fought one, but Ticonderoga was captured by the British, and the news filled Lady Harriet with joy, for her husband, who sent her the message, told her that he was unhurt. The joy was short-lived, however. Two days later Lady Harriet was informed that on the day following the capture of Ticonderoga her husband had been dangerously wounded.
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