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Again and again these men were lost in the drifted snow of the cañons while passing from station to station, and barely escaped with their lives. So imminent, indeed, was their danger during the winter of 1873 that prayers for their safety were offered continually in the churches below.
The idea of seeing this terrible spectacle again so upset him that he kept his eyes closed with all his strength, as though they might open in spite of himself. What had become of Denis? He had probably escaped. But what could he, Marambot, do now? Get up? Call for help? But if he should make the slightest motions, his wounds would undoubtedly open up again and he would die from loss of blood.
Fortunate for England is it that this power is no longer concentrated in a single man, and that the mighty influence once wielded by an individual will henceforth be exerted by a profession. We in America have escaped all danger of ever falling under the dominion of a paper despot. There will never be a Times in America.
Ellie Vanderlyn had brought a breath of it to Venice; but Susy was then nourished on another air, the air of Nick's presence and personality; now that she was abandoned, left again to her own devices, she felt herself suddenly at the mercy of the influences from which she thought she had escaped.
Thus by apparent harshness to one whom he still considered a subordinate, the real culprit escaped suspicion. Assured of immunity from punishment himself, Salicetti was content with his rival's humiliation, and felt no real rancor toward the family.
A man on horseback, disguised as a postilion, his blue jacket embroidered with silver, and enormous tail from which the powder escaped in puffs, and a hat adorned with long ribbons, preceded the first carriage, cracking his whip, and crying with all his might: "Make way for the Bacchanal Queen and her court!"
However, there will be no consequences of that sort for one of them. Schmall has escaped us!" "Got away!" exclaimed Fullaway. "Great Scott you don't mean that!" "Schmall committed suicide this afternoon," replied the chief calmly. "Clever man in his own line, which was a very bad line.
To her, as has been said, was given wisdom beyond most women. She did not try to prevent him as he kissed her good-by. But when the door had shut behind him, a little cry escaped her, and she ran to the window to strain her eyes after him until he had turned the corner below. His steps led him irresistibly past the house of the strange flag, ominously quiet at that early hour.
"Nor have you made me think that you liked me," she answered. "Gianluca thought I did not," said Taquisara, slowly, as though speaking to himself. Veronica smiled. "When I first knew you, when we talked together at the villa on that morning before Christmas, I liked you better than him," she said. He started sharply. "Please " He checked himself almost before the one word had escaped his lips.
They take their horses, and Messire Gawain telleth Lancelot he hath the most poverty-stricken host that ever he hath seen, and the fairest damsels known, but that right poorly are they clad. "Shall we therefore take them of our booty?" "I agree," saith Lancelot, "But sore grieveth me of the knight that hath thus escaped us." "Take no heed," saith Messire Gawain, "We shall do well enough herein."
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