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I am grieved, desolated, to have to say this to a person in your ladyship's position, he continued glibly, 'and an esteemed customer, but and again he extended his hands. 'A fig for your desolation! her ladyship cried rudely. 'It don't help me, Smith. 'But your ladyship sees how it is. 'I am hanged if I do! she retorted, and used an expression too coarse for modern print.
As the trade of the Coalbrookdale firm extended, these woods became cleared, until the same scarcity of fuel began to be experienced that had already desolated the forests of Sussex, and brought the manufacture of iron in that quarter to a stand-still.
Perhaps the anxious faces of the ladies touched his heart, or he may have been softened by the knowledge of the perils his young masters were being subjected to. As often as we passed horseman or carriage on the road a stop was ordered, while the ladies made eager inquiries for news from Richmond. The battle of Shiloh, and afterwards that of Seven Pines, had desolated many homes in the vicinity.
Otherwise really, I am desolated, Monsieur le Duc, but you surely comprehend that I cannot wait upon his leisure." John Bulmer cracked a filbert. "So I am to die to-morrow? I do not presume to dictate, monsieur, but I would appreciate some explanation of your motive." "Which I freely render," the Marquis replied. "When I recognized you a week ago as I did at first glance, I was astounded.
Major gave her answer in the form of two smothered sniffs and a third that, eluding her handkerchief, escaped free and loud a telling sniff that advertised her distress; wrung Mr. Marrapit's emotions. He continued: "Mrs. Major, at a future time we will discuss the painful affair to which you make reference. At present I am too preoccupied by the calamity that has desolated my hearth.
Three hundred of those troops who have desolated so many towns, burnt so many temples, and destroyed so many thousands of victims, are at San Mateo, and two hundred more at San Damian. Vain hope! The valiant who have liberated the illustrious Lima, those who protect her in the most difficult moments, know how to preserve her against the fury of the Spanish army.
Desolated by his absence, and alarmed by the tone of the letters from him that had reached her, she had resolved to follow him. On arriving in London, she had been seized by an illness which prevented her from seeing him. On her recovery the people with whom she was staying took her to the theatre where Mrs. Siddons was playing. Oswald was at the theatre with Lady Edgarmond and Lucy.
It may not have been entirely by chance that Claude de Chauxville drove over to Osterno to pay his respects the next day, and expressed himself desolated at hearing that the prince had gone out with Herr Steinmetz in a sleigh to a distant corner of the estate. "My horses must rest," said the Frenchman, calmly taking off his fur gloves. "Perhaps the princess will see me."
The whole breadth of Europe, as it extends above five hundred miles from the Euxine to the Hadriatic, was at once invaded and occupied and desolated by the myriads of Barbarians whom Attila led into the field. The public danger and distress could not, however, provoke Theodosius to interrupt his amusements and devotion or to appear in person at the head of the Roman legions.
I have been told that the child-king is being reared, as it were, in a cloister, so strict are mother and guardian. My only fear for Hyacinth is the troubled state of the city, given over to civil warfare only less virulent than that which has desolated England. I hear that the Fronde is no war of epigrams and pamphlets, but that men are as earnest and bloodthirsty as they were in the League.
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