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If ever you sentence us to life in the city, you'll finish both of us, that's what you'll do! But you won't, will you? You realize what God made us for and what He made for us, don't you, Bel?" As he lovingly patted the dog's head the man talked and the animal trembled with delight. Then the voice of the Harvester changed and dropped to tones of gravest import.
With deep regret it must be admitted, that not only the reckless Hohenlo, but the all-accomplished Sainte Aldegonde, committed the gravest error. In the hour of danger, both had comported themselves with perfect courage and conduct. In the instant of triumph, they gave way to puerile exultation.
The lad's friends won't have the ghost of an idea of where he's gone to.... Wait, though! Stop a bit! He won't have left written word behind him, eh? He won't have done that for safety?" "I think not," said Captain Stewart, but he breathed hard, for he knew well enough that there lay the gravest danger. "I think not," he said again.
I shall speak afterwards of this lovely child, whose death threw his father and mother into the most overwhelming grief, was the cause of great sorrow to the Emperor, and may be considered as the source of the gravest events. After the baptismal fetes we set out for Italy, accompanied by the Empress Josephine.
And now this fountain, the last survivor of the twelve health-giving springs, had suddenly run dry. . . . The bad news spread like wild-fire. It was regarded for reasons which will presently appear as a portent of gravest significance.
"My brother had the gravest way of telling the strangest adventures, as if they had really happened, so that although I might have been taken in by him a thousand times, I invariably yielded the most implicit trust to every new story; while I had such a way of telling real occurrences that no one would believe they were not inventions.
They could not have been so absurd as to omit all training for this gravest of responsibilities.
Now, think it over, my child," said he as he kissed her. And he went away, so evidently uneasy, that his wife and children felt the gravest apprehensions. "Lisbeth," said the Baroness, "I must find out what is wrong with Hector; I never saw him in such a state. Stay a day or two longer with that woman; he tells her everything, and we can then learn what has so suddenly upset him.
"I have information of the gravest moment to communicate to the head of the British Secret Service in this country." The secretary looked startled. "What makes you think Colonel Stanistreet is connected with the British Secret Service?" "I don't think so; I know it." After a moment of hesitation Mr. Blensop yielded graciously. "If you can come back at nine to-morrow morning, Mr.
There is always someone going and coming, over-dressed girls lean over and drop their stake and disappear, young clerks bring their quarter's salary, the casual visitor "doesn't mind risking a few francs" at roulette. But even the excitement of roulette is of the gravest and dullest order.
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