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But within a few yeares after, this Eustace died, and then was Constance maried to Raimond earle of Tholouse. Malm. Polydor. Matth. Paris. Howbeit they got nothing of the king but faire words, and promises of amendment in that which had béene doone otherwise than equitie required which promises were vtterlie vnperformed, and so the councell brake vp.
Girth was called out of the room, and left George alone among the treasures. Just at what instant the mania seized him we shall never know. There were a pen and an inkpot on the table, and the frenzied lover of books dipped the quill deep in the dark blue fluid. He ran eagerly to the shelves. The first volume he saw was a copy of "Lorna Doone."
"I expect that you will send for her and tell her that she is free to go down with me leave this house and take a ride or a walk with me." "As much as that? If you have to talk to her, why not do the talking here?" "I dunno," replied Ronicky Doone. "I figure she'd think too much about you all the time." "The basilisk, eh?" asked John Mark. "Well, you are going to persuade her to go to Bill Gregg?"
Wherevpon the prince commanded, that he should be put into the tun againe, from thencefoorth not to haue anie fauour or pardon at all, and so it was doone, and the fire put to him againe, and he consumed to ashes. About this season died the lord Thomas Beauford earle of Surrie. Thom.
Macklin, I guess," said the handsome man. "I am," said Macklin, and, stepping back from his door, he invited them in with a sweeping gesture. There were only two chairs, but the younger of the strangers immediately made himself comfortable on the bed. "My name's Doone," he said, "and this is Mr. William Gregg. We think that you have some information which we can use.
This doone, they returned, and brought the caricks into the chamber at Rie, where one of them by misfortune of fire perished, to the losse & no gaine of either of the parties.
I therefore carried with me the following books in handy volume size: Montaigne's Essays, Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Verse, Lockhart's Life of Napoleon, Autobiography of Cellini, Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers, Lorna Doone, Prescott's Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru, Les Miserables, Vanity Fair, Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Pepys' Diary, Carlyle's French Revolution, The Last of the Mohicans, Westward Ho, Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers, A Tale of Two Cities, and Tolstoi's War and Peace.
Before that death sentence had been passed on him Ronicky Doone stood before the door of his room, with the trembling girl beside him. "Wait here," he whispered to her. "Wait here while I go in and wake him up. It's going to be the greatest moment in his life! Poor Bill Gregg is going to turn into the richest man in New York City all in one moment!" "But I don't dare go in. It will mean "
Not that I figure on bragging, but I want you to pick good men for my trail and tell 'em to step soft. Is that square?" "Aside from certain idiosyncrasies, such as your manner of paying a call by way of a cellar window, I think you are the soul of honor, Ronicky Doone. Now may I sit down?" "Suppose we shake hands to bind the bargain," said Ronicky.
The men of Devon, who bore red facings, had a long way to go round the hills, before they could get into due position on the western side of the Doone Glen.
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