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A woman handed over to you by a notary, how commonplace!
It was thought that the Czar might annex Hungary; but he handed it back to Francis Joseph, who, by way of vengeance, permitted the most hideous cruelties. In Germany, the issue had no definite feature.
"He caught hold of the chain, which was a fairly long one, bound it twice round his arm and steadying his arm across his thigh, he turned with a sudden jerk. There was a smart 'snap' as the chain parted. He caught me by the shoulder and pulled me to my feet. 'Put the chain about your waist, Effendi, he said, and he took a revolver from his belt and handed it to me.
They knew little or nothing of his former life. One of them sat next to him at table, and very naturally handed him the wine, with a request to drink with him. "Thank you," was the courteous, but firm reply. "I do not drink wine." Another, who understood the reason of this refusal, observing it, remarked "Our friend Marshall belongs to the tee-totallers." "Ah, indeed!
He whispered of the train as he handed the glasses back to Colonel Newcomb, and then the colonel and the generals alike made a long examination. "Beauregard will certainly have an abundance of supplies," said one of the generals. "I hear that arms and provisions are coming by every train from the South, and meanwhile we are making no advance."
If he resists, I'll punch him with this," added Tom, demonstrating the movement by a few vigorous thrusts with the bayonet. With some hesitation Joe took a revolver from the pocket of the soldier, and handed it to Tom. "Examine all his pockets. Take out everything he has in them," added Tom, cocking the revolver, and pointing it at the head of the prisoner.
The story of St. Antony, as it has been handed down to us, runs thus: The life and conversation of our holy Father Antony, written and sent to the monks in foreign parts by our Father among the saints, Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria.
Perhaps I ought to have handed it over to the police.... I didn't do it because while the thing's in doubt one can't bring a horrible accusation, particularly against a member of one's family. My father's own wife !" The butler nodded understandingly. "I suppose I'll have to be leaving here in the morning, sir: I sha'n't be wanted after what has happened.
That afternoon she wrote several letters, and tore them up. One, however, she retained, and handed it to Low to post at Indian Spring, whither he was going. She called his attention to the superscription, being the same as the previous letter, and added, with affected gayety, "But if the answer isn't as prompt, perhaps it will be pleasanter than the last."
A cup was brought to him, but as he was lifting it to his month he saw a dying soldier staring at it with burning eyes. Philip Sidney paused before tasting it, leaned from the saddle, and handed it to the soldier, saying to him in the same soft, musical voice with which the boy called to his mother in the sunny garden at Penshurst, "Friend, thy necessity is yet greater than mine."
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