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At Ugogo those who wished to join them were unable to do so, for their porters, what few were left, were all dying of starvation; and at that moment Manua Sera was hovering about, shooting, both night and day, all the poor villagers in the district, or driving them away.
If we dare not face the apparition, dare not attempt to touch it, run superstitiously away from it, what happens? We shall believe to our dying day that it was not an illusion, that it was a spectre; and so we may be crazed for life.
Moreover, her dying mother talked to her long and earnestly, and with her last breath gave her loving counsel that sank deep into her heart, already softened by an uncontrollable sorrow and weakened by long vigils. Scarcely had Madame de l'Enclos closed her eyes upon the things of earth, than Ninon conceived the project of withdrawing from the world and entering a convent.
"A God that did not care for what he had made, how should we believe in! but he who cares for the dying sparrow, may be trusted with the dead stag." "Truly, yes," returned Alister. "Let us sit down," said Ian, "and I will sing you a song I made last night; I could not sleep after you left me." Without reply, Alister took a stone by the wayside, and Ian one a couple of yards from him.
But not at once, not for ten years, and in instalments of which Orion himself was to determine the proportion. In the event of his dying within the next three years all his claims were to be transferred to her uncle Chrysippus.
"If if you think I've done my duty to the strannger and the young lady," said the young man; and added, feebly pressing the father's hand, "and to you, dad, to you, and mother, and the rest of 'em." "You have, Tom," said the colonel, with somewhat a husky voice "to the travelling strannger, to mother, father, and all " "And to Kentucky?" murmured the dying youth,
But I know what I think, mother what, indeed, I know. That was not my father's real will; my brothers John and Jasper have cheated you. Of this I am very sure. "Mother, though she was so weak and dying, got quite a color into her cheeks when I said this. 'No, no, she said, 'don't harbor such a thought in your heart my darling, my darling. Indeed it is utterly impossible.
"She was ill a week, Sire; her Majesty suffered little bodily pain." "Did she see that she was dying? Did she show courage?" "A sign her Majesty made when she could no longer express herself leaves me no doubt that she felt her end approaching; she seamed to contemplate it without fear."
Nothing so startling as this occurred to us again; but the serenity of our thoughts was in some degree interrupted, a few days afterwards, by the north-easterly Trade-wind dying away, and a gentle south-wester springing up in its place.
It might be that his body was dying, but his mind was young, elastic, and unspoiled by selfishness or affectation. He had his regrets; they concerned the Samoans greatly. "Had I come here fifteen years ago I might have ruled these islands." He imagined it possible that international intrigue might not have flourished under him. Never had I seen so fragile a man who would be king.
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