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" An address praying that all foreigners may be dismissed from his Majesty's service." The Earl looked up swiftly and checked his fingers, which had been drumming on the table. "Decidedly you are intelligent," he said very slowly. "What can William do if that address is carried, as it may be? To yield will be to discard his dearest friends: to resist will mean a national rising.
"I could have wished," she said, "that Monsieur Clifford might spare me more time when he brings with him so charming an American." "Must must I go, Valentine?" began Clifford. "Certainly," she replied. Clifford took his leave with very bad grace, wincing, when she added, "And give my dearest love to Cecile!"
He was quiet enough on shipboard indeed, he had almost escaped observation until we sighted Sitka; but then his heart could contain itself no longer, and he made confidants of several of us to whom he had spoken never a word until this moment. How glad he was to greet its solemn shores, to him the dearest spot in all the earth! A few hours later we met him.
For she is not only a treasure in herself, but she is my dearest friend and I should be most unhappy to lose her." The men stood staring at Launomar in astonishment. They could hardly believe their eyes and their ears. Where did he come from? What did he mean?
What did I tell Leonard, dear?" "You told him not to confess certain anxieties, even if they were justified." "Oh, Arthur!" "I see my folly, dearest. But Isabel, he ought not to have answered that the more they were justified, the more they should go unconfessed!" "Oh, Arthur! the merest, idlest prattle! What meaning could you" "None, Isabel, none!
"For Pocahuntas his dearest jewele and daughter in that dark night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine good cheer should be sent us by and by; but Powhatan and all the power he could make would after come and kill us all, if they that brought it could not kill us with our own weapons when we were at supper. Therefore if we would live she wished us presently to be gone.
In that moment of self-revelation I knew that I could have no happiness except with you. You are a Goddess." I laughed and cried at the same time, and said: "No, no, no! I am not going to be a Goddess any longer I am simply your own little wife. I am an ordinary woman." "Dearest," he replied, "I have also something I want to say to you. Never again put me to shame by calling me your God."
The latter was sometimes questioned by his intimate acquaintances as to his English friend, and to them he replied, "Monsieur Wyatt is the son of a colonel in the English army. He has rendered me a very great service, the nature of which I am not at liberty to disclose. Suffice that the obligation is a great one, and that I regard him as one of my dearest friends.
"My own dearest Marian," he said; "my frank, generous love! if I were going to remain in this neighborhood this winter, no consideration, I fear, for others' good, would induce me to consent to part with you." It was now Marian's turn to change color, and falter in her tones, as she asked: "You you are not going away?" "Sweet Marian, yes!
When I was talking with her in the garden on Saturday night I felt this change more distinctly than I had ever done before. I understood that it had made a change in myself. I love her, Mr. Snowdon, and it's my dearest hope that she may come to feel the same for me. Michael was more agitated than the speaker; he raised a hand to his forehead and closed his eyes as if the light pained them.
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