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A slaughtering, destroying shot smashing through the port, a great seam battered in the side, crippled and defeated, the Merrimack turned prow and steamed away. This was the end of her career, as really as when, a few weeks later, early morning saw her wrapped in sudden flame and smoke, and the people of Norfolk heard in their beds the report which was her death-knell.
"You forget, dear lady, that you are the price of his freedom, and your place is with your husband," he said, as he drew her back into the hall and touched a lever which released the door. To Myra the clang of the door as it shut seemed like a death-knell. Don Carlos took off his cowl and flung it aside, smoothed his jet-black hair with his hands, and drew a long breath.
Its palace was here founded in 1659 by Don Jose Balderan, and restored in 1787 by Don Diego Nicholas Eduardo, whose fine fronting staircase has been much admired. The Holy Tribunal broke up in 1820, when, the Constitution proving too strong for St. Dominic, the college-students mounted the belfry; and, amid the stupefaction of the shuddering multitude, joyously tolled its death-knell.
"It is my other wound!" These words sounded like a death-knell, but I insisted on seeing the other wound, and found four bullet holes under his new clothes. From the one wound, for which I had been caring, he might easily recover; but with four more so distributed that he must lie on one, and no surgeon to make trap doors, no bed there was no hope.
The joy that suddenly lighted her husband's face was like a death-knell to the wife: she saw, with anguish, that the man's passion was stronger than himself. Claes had faith in his work which enabled him to walk without faltering on a path which, to his wife, was the edge of a precipice. For him faith, for her doubt, for her the heavier burden: does not the woman ever suffer for the two?
In this way they endeavoured to avoid all contact with the sick, and abandoned their houses and property to chance, like men whose death-knell had already tolled. "Amid this general lamentation and woe, the influence and authority of every law, human and divine, vanished.
Weir of Hermiston; swift, also, to recognise in his stumbling or throttled utterance the death-knell of these expectations, and constant, poor girl! in her large-minded madness, to go on and to reck nothing of the future.
Colonel Dittfurt lay on his couch with his eyes distended to their utmost, and stared at the Tyrolese assembled round him. For some minutes the curses and invectives had died away on his lips, and he seemed to listen attentively to the sinister notes of the alarm- bells which were calling incessantly upon the Tyrolese to prepare for the struggle. "Is that my death-knell?" he asked wearily.
"We, who have stood here on the borders of the republic for a quarter of a century, protesting against slavery as the sum of all human villainies we, who have closely watched every turn of the question we, who have for years acted and sympathized with the good men of the republic in their efforts for the freedom of their country we, who have a practical knowledge of the atrocities of the 'peculiar institution, learned from the lips of the panting refugee upon our shores we, who have in our ranks men all known on the other side of the Atlantic as life-long abolitionists we, I say, are in a position to speak with confidence to the anti-slavery men of Great Britain to tell them that they have not rightly understood this matter to tell them that slavery is the one great cause of the American rebellion, and that the success of the North is the death-knell of slavery.
I hear them night and day; they are always resounding in my ears like the death-knell of Germany; they are ever smarting in my heart like an open wound. Germany is groaning and lamenting, for Napoleon's foot is still on her neck, and, mortally wounded and blinded like my father, we are all crying, 'Oh, what a disgrace! what a disgrace!"
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