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I presently took my departure; not, however, before I had received from the Armenian a pressing invitation to call upon him whenever I should feel disposed. Anxious thoughts frequently disturbed me at this time with respect to what I was to do, and how support myself in the Great City.
Suddenly he came to the corner of Wedgwood Street. He had started from Bleakridge; he had arrived at home: the interval between these two events was a perfect blank, save for the policeman. He could not recall having walked all the way down the road. And as he put the key into the door he was not in the least disturbed by the thought that his father might not have gone to bed.
The windows of the long drawing-room at Monksmoor are all thrown open to the conservatory. Distant masses of plants and flowers, mingled in ever-varying forms of beauty, are touched by the melancholy luster of the rising moon. Nearer to the house, the restful shadows are disturbed at intervals, where streams of light fall over them aslant from the lamps in the room. The fountain is playing.
Then, it would be just such an illumination as the Catholic faith allows to its believers. But, give me to live and die in the pure, white light of heaven!" "Why do you look so sorrowfully at me?" asked Hilda, quietly meeting his disturbed gaze. "What would you say to me? I love the white light too!" "I fancied so," answered Kenyon. "Forgive me, Hilda; but I must needs speak.
I told the men that the Devil sent in one of his angels once in a while, the same as to-night, to disturb the meeting-place of God. I said, "You men would be a marker for God if you would only take a stand for God and cut out your sins. I never in my palmy days disturbed a meeting, drunk or sober. I always respected God's house.
As things stand, however, it seems to me he has most to gain from your death." "He couldn't count on that; to do the fellow justice, he'd hardly go so far, but there's some truth in what you say." Benson looked disturbed and irresolute, but after a few moments he abruptly threw his cigar away and leaned forward with a decided air. "If you'll have me, I'll go with you."
I should have liked very much to have regained them, but the dry state of the country and the want of water will not allow me to look for them. Found that the things buried had been disturbed, and most of them carried away by the natives the others all destroyed the sugar all gone, except about five pounds, which was left in the hole and covered up.
"'At first no danger was apprehended from the ship being on one side, although the water kept dashing in at the port-holes at every wave; and there being mice in the lower part of the ship, which were disturbed by the water which dashed in, they were hunted in the water by the men, and there had been a rare game going on.
He never called her Paula unless he was terribly disturbed, "About mother you said " "You and she ought to go away this winter not just for a trip, but to stay. You" she drew a long breath and made the plunge "you ought to give up the house." "Give up " "Permanently. Mother and you are buried alive here. You ought to come to New York to live.
That evening on retiring the Emperor said to me, in a very severe tone, that the Empress had informed him she had learned from me, that, at the time she came to question me in regard to him, he was closeted with a lady. Not at all disturbed, I replied to the Emperor, that of course he could not believe that.
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