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Dearest, now that the day of trial draws nigh you have never questioned me, and it was like you to spare me pain but now I can speak of him and myself. Diana dropped her voice. Here was another confession. The proximity of the trial acted like fire on her faded recollection of incidents. It may be that partly the shame of alluding to them had blocked her woman's memory.
The truth was now apparent; my friend had dropped the money in the morning, when leaving the room, and the faithful creature finding it, had held it in her mouth until his return enabled her to restore it to his own hands; even refusing to eat for a whole day, lest it should be out of her custody."
Kerry hooked his finger into the dog's collar, swung the yapping animal above his head, and hurled it from him into the gloom and rain mist. "Hell take the blasted thing!" he shouted. "I'm done with it!" He tenderly sucked his wounded wrist, and picking up his cane, which he had dropped, he looked about him and swore savagely.
Little Thunder made one final appeal, working himself up into a fine frenzy of passion. Then Raven made reply. "Listen to me!" he said. "It is all folly, mad folly! And besides," and here his voice rang out like a trumpet, "I am for the Queen, God bless her!" His figure straightened up, his hands dropped on the butts of his guns. "By Jove!" exclaimed Cameron. "Isn't that great?"
In a little time, they grew intimate and Alcibiades, listening now to language entirely free from every thought of unmanly fondness and silly displays of affection, found himself with one who sought to la open to him the deficiencies of his mind and repress his vain and foolish arrogance, and "Dropped like the craven cock his conquered wing."
Thomas F. Tipton. In politics, however, as in other things, "the whirligig of time brings in his revenges," and I was in turn the successful competitor of my late opponent in his candidacy for re-election. Meanwhile, many changes had occurred in the personnel of the House. Many familiar names had been dropped from its roll.
Aunt Madge grew quite pale, dropped the egg-beater, and carried the letter into the nursery to read it by herself. She opened it with trembling fingers; but before she had read two lines her fingers trembled worse than ever, her heart throbbed fast, the room seemed to reel about. There was no bad news in the letter, you may be sure of that.
He showed me the corner where Emmett stood it when he left for the wreck, and told what was to be done with it. 'Them were his last words," she added, quoting Mr. Potter. She reached out her hand for the clumsy old firearm and almost dropped it, finding it so much heavier than she expected.
The judge's wife dropped something as she walked. Jane hurried after her and picked it up. It was a glove.
With swift determination he gave over his duties as sergeant-major to Sergeant Wiegandt, then galloped to the right flank to try and mend matters somehow if possible. But the disaster had already begun. Gun six had from a gallop dropped into a trot, and from a trot into a walk. At last the six horses could not drag the gun one inch further.
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