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As Fate had once more thrown them together she accepted the position gladly, though it is fair to say that she would not have sought it. In about an hour's time, just as John was beginning to recover from the painful effects of the chloroform, the soldier's wife who was to assist her in nursing arrived.

In that time of the most sorrowful reaction the political condition of Germany was so wretched that any discussion concerning it was gladly avoided. I do not remember having attended a single debate on that topic in the circles of the students with which I was nearly connected.

Agassiz would gladly have stayed longer in the neighborhood of Glacier Bay, and have made it the central point of a more detailed examination of the glacial phenomena in the Strait. But the southern winter was opening, and already gave signs of its approach.

As she spoke, she walked steadily along the road, and the others followed, "Well then," said the lad, "let's sing 'Gladly and merrily'" and he began to sing the familiar tune.

If the Home Rule Bill is passed there will be a dangerous and desperate war, in which other countries may take part who would gladly see our power broken." In Mr. Froude's opinion, there would be war between England and Ireland, as well as between Ulster and the South.

He jumped at it, and Gabrielle, who could not bear the idea of seeing her own Roscarna in the occupation of strangers, gladly consented. I do not suppose it would have made much difference to Considine if she had objected. At Lapton Huish, in the following autumn, Mrs. Payne found them.

But on my telling her that I would give her double the sum she was to be paid for her witchcraft, and that thus she would be the gainer and not a loser in complying with my demands, she became calm once more. "I shall lose six sequins," said she, "but you will gladly pay double when I shew you what I have got; I know who you are." "Who am I?" "Giacomo Casanova, the Venetian."

"You cowardly pack of scoundrels," he said, "if we could, we would gladly take you to where we could deliver you up to the justice you so richly deserve; but, under existing circumstances, that is impossible; and so we have decided to leave you here, bound as you now are, without weapons of any kind, but with food enough to last you three days, which ought to be enough to keep you until you can get to one of the mining-camps.

The young girl stepped nearer to him, and answered, kindly, "Since you needed me, I gladly followed Philostratus." "Because I needed you?" asked the emperor. "Yes," she replied, "because you require nursing." "Then, to keep you, I shall wish to be ill often," he answered, quickly; but he added, sadly, "only not so dreadfully ill as I have been to-day."

I can't operate without knowledge; and from hour to hour I've never any seecurity that I'm not being cheated." Isaac would gladly have recalled that word. Keith met it with silence, a silence more significant than any speech; charged as it was with reminiscence and reproof. "Now, what I propose " "Please don't propose anything. I I I can't do what you want."