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Only it is a pity that, day after day, most of you must give your children a little less bread and deprive yourselves of many a draught of wine to deck him out so bravely.
The local direction of the wind might vary, but it was still the same polar draught, the blood-sucker; for, like a vampire, it sucks the very blood and moisture out of delicate human life, just as it dries up the sap in the branch.
"I am not: never will, nor can be," was my reply. Sharp wrung my hand till it felt bloodless. "Herbert Daker is Matthew Glendore Mounseer Glendore. When did you meet him?" "On the Boulogne steamer, about three years ago, when he was crossing with his wife." "Then!" Sharp exclaimed, and again he took a draught of brandy-and-water.
The "Santissima Trinidad" was at that time the largest warship and the most formidable that had ever been built. The "Redoubtable" was only second in strength and equipment. Five or six others were men-of-war of the heaviest draught and metal. The French and Spanish soldiers fought bravely, going into the battle with flying streamers and answering shouts.
We are from the sea, having been blown here." "Then he may bide till he wakes," the man said, going on with his meal. Presently he stopped eating, and after taking a great draught of ale, said that he wondered the dog had not torn me. "Whereby I know you to be an honest man.
The draught she gave me was more quieting than her words had been, for I remembered nothing more distinctly until I awoke in the brightness of another day. I found my spirits attuned to the clear sunshine of the new day, and congratulated myself that convalescence promised to be so speedy.
So Tom had gone, for his wife, who lacked the gift of argument, possessed the energy of character which renders such minor attributes unnecessary; and Oliver, passing through the hall a couple of hours later, found him still helplessly seeking the draught towards which she had directed him. "Any chance of a breeze springing up?" inquired the young man as they moved together to the porch.
This condition however he found it exceedingly difficult to fulfill, for the additional work he was doing in Greek made a severe draught upon his time as well as upon his energies. "I hate the stuff!" he declared one night to his room-mate after he had spent several hours in an almost vain effort to fasten certain rules in his mind. "You don't catch me taking it after this year."
At her suggestion a box-scene was set around them to keep off at least a part of the draught, and under these depressing conditions the reading proceeded. Douglass was visibly disheartened by the surroundings, but set manfully to work, and soon controlled the attention of all the players except two, who made it a boast that they had never read a play or listened to one.
Let us see how we can get out. There must be some way." Dick turned his light this way and that, and Jack lighted a match, saying with a significant chuckle: "That is all very well, but this is better for our purpose. Watch!" The flame presently began to flicker, and indicated the presence of a draught of air, Jack noticing the direction whence it came, said: "Try this way, Dick.
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