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The man had heard strange news and stopped to pass it on, and the next moment Ned was hurrying as fast as his long legs could take him back to the castle. He saw his sister only for a moment. "Lilian!" he cried, and the sound of his voice made her start and stare at him. "There's a story that Sir Reginald was murdered last night." "Murdered!" she repeated in a low incredulous voice.
Through the windows of the brick walls peered the black-mouthed guns trained across the water. She looked about timidly for a moment while the man in grey who had rowed her over made fast his boat. He tipped his old slouch hat: "This way, Miss."
About 8,500 horse, foot, and dragoons, are embarking, as fast as they can, for Embden, to reinforce Prince Ferdinand's army; late and few, to be sure, but still better than never, and none.
She lived on herbs, and the fast of Lent was so severe that Father Francis saw a miraculous preservation.
Van Artevelde's column had followed the retreating crowd so fast that it had already pushed its head into the town, and there was no driving it back. The five thousand "troublesome burghers," with their swords in their hands, and still crying "Ghent!" swarmed into Bruges, and quickly took possession of the town.
One cannot write everything. Stand fast in God. Yield nothing to wry faces, till the right is established. God be with you. In haste, in haste!"
"We must go over the ground up there again," he remarked finally. "Perhaps we can do better than Mrs. Sutphen and her drug investigator have done." Half an hour later we had arrived and were sauntering along the street in question, walking slowly up and down in the now fast- gathering dusk.
Now Peter doesn't like the water, as you know, and he scrambled out just as fast as ever he could. How the others did laugh at him. "What did he do that for?" demanded Peter indignantly. "To show you one use he has for that handy tail," replied Old Mother Nature. "That is the way he gives warning to his friends whenever he discovers danger.
Do it up right, and give each of us a certificate in due form, so that it will stand in law; and you shall be liberally rewarded; yes, and promoted, too. You shall not serve me for nothing. Come, now, away as fast as possible to get the men together, and report to me at midnight precisely, in this place."
Round and round, in ever-narrowing circles as his strength fails, the tortured humpback swims, sometimes turning on his back or side, but failing, failing fast. 'He's done for, lads. Pull up; stand up, Jim. The boat dashes up, and Jim, the man who is pulling bow oar, picks up his harpoon.
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