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In his left hand he held a parasol, and in his right the end of a cord, to which was attached a graceful Albanian greyhound.... Cagliostro saluted this grotesque being, who bowed slightly, but with satisfied dignity. 'You do not reside in Messina, signor? he said in Sicilian, but with a marked foreign accent.
There were rejoicings and renewed confidence in Southern homes, and smiles of triumph on the faces of sympathizers abroad and throughout the North. But the astute leaders of the Rebellion were well aware that the end had not yet come, and that, unless some bold, paralyzing blow was struck, the struggle was but fairly begun.
There was Sibwright's down below, which would become him hugely. Pen said "Stuff," and seemed as confused as his uncle; and the end was that a gentleman from Burlington Arcade waited next day upon Mr.
In music a rest has the same effect in completing a bar as the corresponding note. In the two following lines the commas in the middle of the line stand for rests, like the punctuation at the end of the first line; or if we wish we can make the words "time, time, time," three longer notes.
And he strode through the office door, which he closed behind him sharply, in reminder that the interview was at an end. As Jack went down the steps into the night, the face of John Prather, with a satirical turn to the lips, was preceding him.
Not infrequently the whole trouble is thus confined to such a small locality that nothing serious results. But in other instances the bacilli may after a time slowly or rapidly distribute themselves from these centres, attacking more and more of the body until perhaps fatal results follow in the end. This disease is therefore commonly of very slow progress.
I came to the conclusion afterward that it was probably owing to the views of Prince von Bülow that the proposal had come to an untimely end.
Hodder, a fairly accurate summary of the sermon you gave when you resumed the pulpit at the end of the summer?" "Yes, sir," answered the rector, "it is surprisingly accurate, with the exception of two or three inferences which I shall explain at the proper moment." "Mr. Atterbury is to be congratulated on his memory," the bishop observed a little dryly.
The rest of the Saxons fled to the coverts of the woods and the mountains, by large companies. In such desolate and waste places they lurked and hid from their enemies until hunger and thirst put a term to their miseries. When Cador had made an end of his slaying, and given quiet to the land, he followed after Arthur, and took the road towards Scotland.
She made a quick little movement towards her; then stopped, staring. Faith smiled nervously. She did not know why, but her heart seemed to stop beating, when Peg turned on her heel without a word or sign of recognition, and sat down at a table at the far end of the room. The man had not noticed anything; he turned to ask for his bill. Presently he looked up at Faith.
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