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I often feel ashamed of the part I play toward your wife, Ottario, and I know not but some day I may throw myself at her feet and acknowledge my treachery." "If you do, your acknowledgment will be forthwith conveyed to my ears, and the doors of the palace Strozzi will be closed to you forever." "I know it," sighed the countess; "and the fear of this expulsion binds me to your wicked will."
"It's playing it low on a fellow," he said, "when he's just squared himself to hustle for a poor candle seller to change her into a howling millionaire. I'd like to know how the devil I'm going to be a hero now?" "Silly boy," she laughed, her radiant eyes burning on him, at which he threatened to begin the treatment forthwith. "You darling!" he cried. "My little Alice!
The soothsayers who were consulted said that the army must wait thrice nine days, a full circle of the moon, before it could quit its present position; and the devout and superstitious Nicias forthwith resolved to abide by this decision. Meanwhile the intention of the Athenians became known to the Syracusans, who determined to strike a blow before their enemy escaped.
At length a remittance of sixty pounds was received, and they forthwith settled to buy an ass to carry the necessary portmanteau and Mary when unable to walk; and so they started on their journey in 1814, across a country recently devastated by the invading armies of Europe.
My mother is right you have some ill design." "By my soul, no!" cried the gallant, passionately. "I love you, and would make you mine." "No doubt," remarked Mrs. Bloundel, contemptuously, "but not by marriage." "Yes, by marriage," rejoined the gallant, rising. "If she will consent, I will wed her forthwith."
An unlucky member of the household mentioned a passage in the Morning Herald reflecting on the Queen; and forthwith Madame Schwellenberg began to storm in bad English, and told him that he made her "what you call perspire!" A more important occurrence was the King's visit to Oxford.
It may be considered significant that, whereas Labertouche himself was not seen either to enter or to leave the building at any time that day, an Attit mendicant did enter from Dhurrumtollah Street shortly after Frank had gone to lunch and disappeared forthwith; while, in the dusk of evening, a slim Eurasian boy with a clerkly air left by the stairs to the alley.
One or two who inquired too much felt the weight of his hand, and forthwith the percentage of sceptics decreased marvellously. Clay watched on, non-interferent, hugging himself with amusement, but not daring to let a trace of it be seen.
That excitement over, the feeling increased every hour, and many urged the summary hanging of Cora. Scannell had duly prepared for all this, and order was preserved, although several hundred men formed in line and proceeded to the County Jail to force their way in, seize Cora and hang him forthwith.
He commanded a large number of Tartars and Vogulitches, and received these audacious strangers with a hail of arrows, shot from the banks of the river, at the place where is seen the present village of Usseninovo; but, frightened by a discharge of artillery, he forthwith took flight.
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