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I'm so glad to find you here, Corrie," cried Alice, hastening forward, "I'm in such distress! Do you know that Oh! I forgot; papa said I was to tell nobody about it!" "Don't let that trouble you, Alice," said Corrie, as they sat down together under the tree. "I know what you were about to say Henry and his mother are going away." "How do you know that? I thought it was a great secret!"
Thank hevvn we hav no Enoch Soameses amung us to-dai! The clearer they became, the greater was my bewilderment, my distress and horror. The whole thing was a nightmare.
A sick feeling of helplessness overcame her; but she turned on him firmly. "I pardoned you once for that threat!" "Yes and you sent me some money the next day." "I was mistaken enough to think that, in your distress, you had not realized what you wrote. But if you're a systematic blackmailer " "Gently gently. Bad names don't frighten me it's hunger and debt I'm afraid of."
And then if that ye fall in any distress through wilful folly, then is there none other remedy or help but by me and my blood. And wit ye well, madam, the boldness of you and me will bring us to great shame and slander; and that were me loath to see you dishonoured.
"I will return to town immediately," continued he; "so Fanny need not leave the house of her only friend to avoid me. As to these bank-notes, keep them, dear aunt. She says her father is in great distress. Perhaps, now that I am come 'to a right way of thinking, she will not disdain my assistance. Give her the money when and how you think proper.
But Flora felt no title to the common fate, and while the bustle of the place went on about them she hiddenly suffered and, mainly for the torment it would give her avaricious companion, told a new reason for the look in her eyes. Only a few nights before she had started wildly out of sleep to find that she had dreamed the cause of Anna's irreconcilable distress for the loss of the old dagger.
I've just got a feeling that this affair isn't going to be explained along any play lines." "But Hal's cousin didn't have any suspicion that it was anything more than a hazing affair, according to his diary," Cub reminded. "I'm not so sure about that, either. You know he explained his distress messages by saying that he had been marooned by some river thieves or bandits."
I heard him talking to her, and I heard mother crying; I came into the room then, for I cannot bear the sound of my mother's sobs when she is in distress, and she at once looked up when she heard nay step, and she said: "'It is all hopeless, Catherine; Beatrice Meadowsweet will not marry Loftus.
Hutchinson and Oliver, to the great and steadily rising wrath of young Mr. Adams. The courts must soon be opened, he said to himself; their inactivity "will make a large chasm in my affairs, if it should not reduce me to distress." Young Mr. Adams, who had, no less than Mr.
I was listening to the others, but I was watching Banks, and I saw him sneer when that assertion was made. The expression seemed to have been forced out of him against his will; just a quick jerk downwards of the corners of his mouth that portrayed a supreme contempt for old Jervaise's distress. But that sneer revealed Banks's opinion to me better than anything he had said or done.
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