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I beseech you, save me from the anger of my relatives, and the disgrace of exposure. Pray bring me back at once." "Why, my God! ma'am, what do you mean? You are not gone mad, as well as my wife." "Really, Mr. Fitz." said Mrs. F. "this is carrying the joke too far.
Some words in the heat of debate led to a blow, and the next mornin' the handkerchief was dropped at the edge of a wood near the cote-house just as the sun rose over the hill. As I fired, the light blinded me, and my ball passed through his left arm. I escaped with a hole in my sleeve." "Living yet?" said Fitz, repressing a smile. "Certainly, suh, and one of the fo'most lawyers of our State.
He moved his head aside and said: "I must prepare for another world." He listened to the roar of the guns for a moment and signaled to his aide: "Major, Fitz Lee may need you." McClellan pressed his hand and hurried to the front. As he passed out the tall figure of the President of the Confederacy entered. Jefferson Davis sat by his side and held his hand.
The group was now a compact mass, every eye watching Chad's finger as though it were a divining rod Fitz full of smothered fears lest after all the prize should slip from his grasp; the agent anxious but reserved; Yancey and the judge hovering between hope and despair, with eyes on the empty decanter; and last of all the colonel, on the outside, holding a candle himself, so that his guests might see the better the least interested man in the room.
Sent by Stuart with a message to the brave "General Fitz," I reached him near Spottsylvania Court-House, at the moment when he had just ordered his cavalry to fall back slowly before the advancing enemy, and take a new position in rear.
There's Fitz Fletcher with his 'Speaker' in his hand. He's going to practise reading in the woods. Let us hide, and hear the fun." "I'm in for it," said Hiram, "but where will be the best place to hide?" "Here in this hollow tree. He'll be very apt to halt here." "All right! Go ahead, I'll follow." They quickly concealed themselves in the tree, unobserved by Fletcher, whose eyes were on his book.
For a second or two each of them looked away. Sara glanced toward her canaries in their cage. Prince d'Alchingen leant forward to inhale the perfume of some violets in a vase near him. "Delicious!" he murmured, "delicious!" "Mr. Disraeli," said Sara, still gazing at the birds, "has always wished for the marriage with Lady Fitz Rewes. Yet what can we do? I cannot see the end of it."
George E. Ellis, D. D., Dr. Henry M. Dexter, Judge Charles Levi Woodbury, and others. Dec. 22. Dedication of new public library building in Chelsea, the gift of Eustace C. Fitz. An eloquent dedicatory address was delivered by James Russell Lowell. Dec. 24. Streets of Lawrence lighted for the first time by the incandescent electric light. Jan. 6.
You shall do what you will. I only ask what good will it do to her?" "It will do good to me, Colonel," whispered Fitz Hugh, suddenly turning crimson. "You forget me." Waldron's face also flushed, and an angry sparkle shot from under his lashes in reply to this utterance of hate, but it died out in an instant. "I have done a wrong, and I will accept the consequences," he said.
"Come now, my dear; you underestimate yourself. Without you, Snookums would have folded up long ago, just like the others. I'm sure you'll do even better the next time." Leda shook her head. "No I won't, Fitz, because there's not going to be any next time. I hereby tender my resignation from this project and from the Computer Corporation of Earth. I'll put it in writing later."
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