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The reader can at once imagine the misery that must have ensued from this cause, in case of their being suddenly assaulted by a superior enemy, and the siege protracted to any considerable length of time. Within this fort, on their return from captivity, Mrs.

Then Blodgett, Davie Paine, the cook, and the man from Boston lifted the plank and inclined it over the bulwark, and so passed all that was mortal of poor Bill Hayden. Suddenly, in the absolute silence that ensued when Roger closed the prayer-book, I became aware that he was signaling me to come nearer, and I stepped over beside him. At the same instant the reason for it burst upon me.

The last thing in all this matter I should think of doubting would be the readiness of Douglas Dale to tumble head-foremost into any net we please to spread for him." A short pause ensued interrupted by Miss Brewer, who said, "I suppose this must all be done quickly on account of that wealthy Philistine, the ironmonger?"

The young men fulfilled their mission in a manner so taunting and insulting that a quarrel ensued, shots were exchanged, and immediately all the vassals of the duke, who were ripe for a fray, commenced an indiscriminate massacre.

Later Handy Solomon approached me on another diplomatic errand. "The seals is getting shy, sir," said he. "They are," said I. "The only way to do is to shoot them," said he. "Quite like," I agreed. A pause ensued. "We've got no cartridges," he insinuated. "And you've taken charge of my rifle," I pointed out. "Oh, not a bit, sir," he cried.

Now if Van Calck hadn't come tearing into Ghent in his wheeled fortress on a sunny September morning he wouldn't have come upon a motor-car containing two German soldiers who had lost their way; if he had not met them, the two Germans would not have been wounded in the dramatic encounter which ensued; if the Germans had not been wounded it would not have been necessary for Mr.

It had been thrust by a careful hand into the most vulnerable part of the body, and death must have ensued at once." This was too much for certain excitable persons present, and a momentary disturbance arose, which, however, was nothing to that in my own breast. So! so! it was her neck that had been pierced, and not her heart. Mr.

And as the sons of Pandu were only four in number and the Gandharvas counted by thousands, the battle that ensued appeared to be extraordinary. And as the cars of Karna and Duryodhana had formerly been broken into a hundred fragments by the Gandharvas, so were the cars of the four heroes attempted to be broken.

As soon as the Legislature convened in 1913 a struggle developed over the Speakership, and there was a long and bitter deadlock before William McKinley, a young Democrat from Chicago, was finally elected. Then another struggle ensued over a United States Senator. During these weeks of turmoil little could be accomplished for the suffrage bill, but February 10 Mrs.

When I like people, I like them; I can't ask what they believe and what they don't believe. We'd better not talk about it any more. Mary's face assumed rather a hard look. 'Just as you like, my dear, she said. There ensued an awkward silence, which Lydia at length broke by speech on some wholly different subject.