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'Say, brandy. 'Does not Mr. Durance accuse you of an addiction to the brandy novel? 'Colney may call it what he pleases. If I read fiction, let it be fiction; airier than hard fact. If I see a ballet, my troop of short skirts must not go stepping like pavement policemen. I can't read dull analytical stuff or "stylists" when I want action if I'm to give my mind to a story.
He gradually acquired a facility in expressing his thoughts, and, better still, he had thoughts to express. Some of the prisoners, who were in durance but for a brief time, asked him to take a class in the Guy-Street Mission Chapel. "They will scarcely want me there as a teacher," he said with a slight flush.
He longed to ask other questions, but he did not know how to shape them. He regretted that subsequently. "And now, Mr. Lynde," said the doctor, "in your general pardon I wish you to include my unavoidable delay in coming or sending to you. When you were brought here I was still in durance vile, and Higgins was in his strait-jacket. On being released, my hands were full, as you can suppose.
A little management and she not only would save herself from the threatened humiliation of being jilted jilted by an uncouth nobody of a Josh Craig! but also would have him in durance, to punish his presumption at her own good pleasure as to time and manner.
To their convictions, she was the only legitimate sovereign in the island, a confessor for their beloved Church, a captive princess and beauty driven from her throne, and kept in durance by a usurper.
It is unnecessary to describe Frank's surprise and grief at the capture of his friend, Rhimeson. At first, he determined instantly to return and relieve him from durance.
The negro had slept continually from the time he had been released from durance vile in the after-hold, neither the racket below nor the turmoil on deck during the storm having disturbed his slumbers. This, no doubt, had hastened his recovery, for Mr McCarthy was positive that three of his ribs at least had been broken.
When the Boden boat reached the geo she was stopped while Gibbie went ashore, and brought all the odds and ends recaptured at Trullyabister. These were stowed beside the basket containing Thor, who made known to all concerned how little he relished being in durance vile by occasional bursts of angry speech and vindictive snaps, through his prison bars, at whatever came within reach.
Welton and myself." "Glory be!" cried Thorne, springing to his feet and clapping Bob on the back. "We've got him!" "So that's what you've been up to for the past week!" cried Amy. "We've been wondering where you had disappeared to!" "Well, not precisely," grinned Bob; "I've been in durance vile."
She spoke with the tenderness of farewell to the spot which had always been the pleasantest abode of the various places of durance which had been hers in England.
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