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After a few seconds, however, with a sort of gasp, like a man awaking from a frightful sleep, he said 'Betty, take the mistress to her room; and to his wife, 'go, sweetheart. Mrs. Macnamara, this must be explained, he added; and taking her by the hand, he led her in silence to the hall-door, and signed to the driver. 'Oh! thank you, Mr.
During the three years of the democracy, no less than eighteen thousand individuals, chiefly of the middle order, perished by the guillotine. This frightful catalogue closed with a remark on the belligerent propensities which such a state of society must produce.
The following week, I received one from Florence. Then letters reached me from Leghorn, Rome, and Naples. "She said to me: 'I am in good health, my dear love, but I am looking frightful. I would not care to have you see me till it is all over; you would not love me. My husband suspects nothing.
Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself restrained. This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, was changing its aspect every moment. Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none.
In his turn Pierre exclaimed: "Oh! certainly, I'll use every means to prevent you from accomplishing such a frightful and foolish deed!" "You'll prevent me!" "Yes, I'll cling to you, I'll fasten my arms to your shoulders, I'll hold your hands if necessary." "Ah! you'll prevent me, you bad brother! You think you'll prevent me!"
As before on that far-gone night that had witnessed our first trial of the iron monster, there was a frightful roaring beneath us the giant frame trembled and vibrated there was a rush of sound as the loose earth passed up through the hollow space between the inner and outer jackets to be deposited in our wake. Once more the thing was off.
I allowed myself to be allured by your beauty, knowing well that it would draw me into a frightful abyss." "Ah," said Rosa, groaning, "how cruelly you speak of our love!" "Of our love!" repeated he, shrugging his shoulders. "Child, in this hour we will be true to each other. Ours was no true love.
A conviction was obtained; but the charges were so obviously futile, that the Government could not, for very shame, carry the sentence into execution; and Peacham, was suffered to languish away the short remainder of his life in a prison. All this frightful story Mr. Montagu relates fairly. He neither conceals nor distorts any material fact.
As the little craft rose and fell in that frightful sea, it seemed doubtful if they would reach the shore. Dumb with terror, Fernando had watched the whole proceeding. He could only hold on to a sail and, by the sheer strength of his hands and arms, save himself from being carried overboard, as sea after sea swept over them.
A good doctor is an absolute necessity on an exploring expedition in such a country as that we were in, under penalty of a frightful mortality among the members; and the necessary risks and hazards are so great, the chances of disaster so large, that there is no warrant for increasing them by the failure to take all feasible precautions.
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