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"I'll be most happy to introjuce you to four uv 'em I killed," added Felix; and Scott was convinced against his will, and the dead serpents were put on the wagon. In another hour they reached the palace, and the game was exhibited to a wondering audience. The officers explained how so many of the cobras happened to be together; but Felix had reached a correct conclusion before. Mrs.
"They are just as I left them last night," explained Señor Rodriguez. "I have not touched them to-day." "And there's only one door," mused Mr. Grimm, meaning that by which they had entered. "So it would appear that whoever was here last night entered through that room. Very well."
But it was no easy matter to arouse the drowsy countrymen, and a still more difficult task to convince the good man of the house that his nocturnal visitors were not brigands. At last it was explained that two gentlemen from Ravenna were bound for Ariminum, on urgent business, and he must furnish a guide for which he would be amply paid.
"With the exception of the stiletto," explained Entrefort, "all the weapons you mention have one or two edges, so that in penetrating they cut their way. A stiletto is round, is ordinarily about half an inch or less in diameter at the guard, and tapers to a sharp point. It penetrates solely by pushing the tissues aside in all directions. You will understand the importance of that point." Dr.
It used to be part of the religion of New England, especially of Connecticut, she explained; and she told them how once, when she was a girl, making a visit to an old aunt in Wethersfield, she had sat up nearly all night over a "raising" of Election cake. "But why did you do that?" asked the girls. "Well, you see, my aunt had a sudden attack of rheumatism in her arm.
"Will you tell him that we are dying of thirst," exclaimed Halliday, "and that we should not object to have something to eat first?" I explained that we had had no food except oysters since the previous evening, and that we should be grateful if he would order us some supper for the Spanish dinner-hour had long passed.
Rollo explained the case fully to her, and concluded by repeating Mr. Chauncy's advice that she should sell the ticket, if she could get a chance to sell it for as much as two shillings. The woman, having been at sea before, understood something about such lotteries, and seemed to be quite pleased to get a ticket.
"I was thinking about a woman when I spoke," he explained gravely. "She was certainly a beauty, and nursed me in the hospital at Baltimore. Oh, you needn't smile; she was married, her husband was on Sheridan's staff; I saw him once, a big fellow with a black moustache.
That was according to your instructions, I believe." "Quite right," Philip assented. "What time does the boat sail?" "Three o'clock, sir." Philip frowned. This was his first disappointment. He had fancied himself on board early in the day. The prospect of a long morning's inaction seemed already to terrify him. "Not till the afternoon," he muttered. "Matter of tide, sir," the man explained.
She further explained that she had found wonderful joy in telling her own people about the true God and His Son Jesus, and was quite assured that the Lord in His own way would send her relief. The visitors who accompanied Mr.
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