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But where was she to go and how should she be supported as became her? These were the questions that troubled them and that they debated earnestly. At length her great-uncle Ithiel suggested that she should be summoned before them, that they might hear her wishes. To this his brethren agreed, and he was sent to fetch her.
So much heavier did he prove than they expected him to be, that they were obliged to send back to the Treasury to fetch more bags of gold, for although Bes was so short in height, his weight was that of a large man. One of the treasurers grumbled, saying he should have been weighed before he had eaten and drunk.
To-morrow night, I make my great stroke for freedom, and when I am free I shall return to fetch my wife." "You will try to escape from here to-morrow?" she asked, her face flushing finely. "I will escape or die," I answered; "but I shall not think of death.
It's allers good to pray," and down went simple old Billy on his knees. "You keep on a-danglin' that ere bucket, and I'll pray fur ye, young uns. That'll fetch him." He clasped his hands and shut his earnest eyes. The children stood in awed silence.
Go, said she, fetch people enough to carry it all off. My brother needed not to be bid twice; he went out, but staid only till he got ten men together, and he brought them with him, and was much surprised to find the gate open, but more when he found the lady and the coffers all gone; for she, being more diligent than he, had carried them all away.
"I did not realise that things were quite so bad," she murmured. "Then I suppose that the place will be taken from us, and we shall shall have to go away." "Yes, certainly, unless money can be found to take up the mortgages, of which I see no chance. The place will be sold for what it will fetch, and that now-a-days will be no great sum." "When will that be?" she asked.
My girl, tried as Rosanna was tried, might have lived that miserable life, and died this dreadful death. The Sergeant kindly lifted me up, and turned me away from the sight of the place where she had perished. With that relief, I began to fetch my breath again, and to see things about me, as things really were.
And valor except of the imaginative brand was not Issy's strong point. "There, there, Sam!" he explained, smiling crookedly. "You mustn't mind me. I'm sort of nervous, I guess. And you mustn't hop up and down in a boat that way. You set still and I'll fetch the compass." He stumbled across the cockpit and disappeared in the dusk of the cabin. Finding that compass took a long time.
She will never accept that creature as a daughter." "She seems to me to be indifferent," said Lucy. "She does not see how terrible it is. She was leaning over the bulwark just now, laughing at the queer gossoons selling their shillalahs." "Oh, she will laugh at Death himself when he comes to fetch her, and see something 'queer'in him," said Clara.
If my children want to go with me into Brittany, I shall go to fetch them, if not I shall go on alone wherever chance leads me. In travelling, I fear only distractions. But I take a good deal on myself and I shall end by improving myself. You write me a good dear letter which I kiss. Don't forget the three leaves from the tulip tree.
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