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The Princess flamed into her mother's presence, paper in hand. "Is this true?" she demanded. "Dear, dear," said the Queen, having read no further than the preliminary anecdote; "well, you shouldn't do such things!" Then she came upon commentary and surmise, with dates, chapter, and verse.
Now, as she spoke, she saw that his eyes were grown suddenly big and fierce, and, in that moment, her hands were caught in his powerful clasp. "Let me go!" she cried. "No," said he, shaking his head, "not until you tell me if you love me. Speak, Anthea." "Loose my hands!" She threw up her head proudly, and her eyes gleamed, and her cheeks flamed with sudden anger. "Loose me!" she repeated.
The bar was like a mint to the proprietor; he only feared discovery and prohibition. It would not accord with the chaste pages of this narrative to tell how some of the noblest residences in Alexandria had been desecrated to licentious purposes; nor how, by night, the parlors of cosey homes flamed with riot and orgie.
The Northern Lights flamed so brightly that one could count them where they stood highest and lowest.
Will you grant to the Count de Lille the uncontested right of calling himself Louis XVIII.? the Count de Lille, who caused Marie Antoinette to shed so many tears." The prince flamed up at this, and his eyes flashed. "No," he cried, "the Count de Lille shall not have this joy. He shall not rest his curse-laden head upon the pillow with the calm consciousness that he will be the king of the future.
He was quivering with rage, and the red flamed in his neck and face. "Buell, I did get to Holston and I did send word to Washington," I went on, hurriedly for I had begun to lose my calmness. "I wrote to my father. He knows a friend of the Chief Forester who is close to the Department at Washington. By this time Holston is full of officers of the forest service.
Fire only as missiles appear." The moving speck flamed and was again only a moving speck. It ejected something which hurtled toward the ship just up from Kandar. "Intercept one away!" said a confident voice. The last-launched missile fled toward the first moving speck, diminishing as it went. It swung suddenly, off course. "Fire two!" snapped somebody somewhere.
He tended him carefully, and respected the reticence Jeff guarded concerning the whole matter, even with the young doctor whom his friend called, and who kept to himself his impressions of the nature of Jeff's injuries. Jeff lay in his darkened room, and burned with them, and with the thoughts, guesses, purposes which flamed through his mind. Had she, that girl, known what her brother meant to do?
"This Count Ranuzi has dared to injure you?" A flash of scorn flamed for a moment in her eyes, then disappeared. "Would I otherwise have betrayed him?" said she. "I am an Italian, and you cannot ask that I shall feel patriotism for King Frederick or for Prussia. Count Ranuzi is my countryman, judge, then, how deeply I have been injured when I betray him, and give him over to death."
Birdalone's heart yearned toward them, and she stepped straightway from out of the cover of the coppice, and the sun flamed from her sallet and glittered in the rings of her hauberk, so that the folk might not fail to see her; the sheep fled bundling from her past their keepers, who stood firm, but seemed somewhat scared, and moved not toward Birdalone.
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