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"Britton, sir, has gone over to the city for the newspapers. You forget that he goes every morning as soon as he has had his " "Yes, yes! Certainly," I said hastily. "The papers. Ha, ha! Quite right." It was news to me, but it wouldn't do to let him know it. The countess read the papers, I did not.
He had borrowed it, as he had borrowed everything else in the subterranean war-ship, from the near-by ruins. He was an extremely light-hearted and courteous host, but he frowned suspiciously when he asked if I knew a correspondent named Senator Albert Beveridge. I hastily repudiated Beveridge.
The things you say of yourself apply in a like degree nay, even more to me." "Ah, but you are not his son. Oh, believe me, I speak not hastily or lightly. I have been torn this way and that in these past days, until at moments the burden has been heavier than I could bear.
"Father, do you wish me to be a nun?" "Never!" hastily answered Bruno. "Nay, my Beatrice; I should not have said that. Be thou what the Lord thinks best to make thee. But I do not want to be left alone again." Beatrice's heart was set at rest. She had terribly feared for a moment lest Bruno, being himself a monk, might think her absolutely bound to be a nun.
"Ditto here," Allan went on to say. "Oh! I'm willing enough," Bumpus observed hastily, seeing that several of his comrades were waiting for him to speak; "but I hope that every time anybody just sees me abobbing my head he'll stick a pin in me; only please don't jab it too deep, or you'll make me howl."
A few, recognising us as strangers, hastily threw on their sacks or got behind a barley-stack until we had passed; the others were quite unconcerned. One, whose garment was exceedingly short, no sooner saw us than she commenced a fjeld dance, full of astonishing leaps and whirls to the great diversion of the other hands. "Weel done, cutty sark!" I cried; but the quotation was thrown away upon her.
The fiery and choleric temper of Theodosius was impatient of the dilatory forms of a judicial inquiry; and he hastily resolved, that the blood of his lieutenant should be expiated by the blood of the guilty people.
We had not been a minute in the room, when his hurried step was heard approaching, and Mrs Waters and I stepped hastily into an adjoining closet, where we could hear and partly see all that passed. Renshawe's speech trembled with fervency and anger as he broke at once into the subject with which his disordered brain was reeling.
What third person?” Ivan cried in alarm, looking about him, his eyes hastily searching in every corner. “That third is God Himself—Providence. He is the third beside us now. Only don’t look for Him, you won’t find Him.” “It’s a lie that you killed him!” Ivan cried madly. “You are mad, or teasing me again!” Smerdyakov, as before, watched him curiously, with no sign of fear.
Graves were dug in rows, and every night the earth was piled hastily on fresh corpses. Before all infected houses hung a red flag of warning, and Province House was the first to show it, for the plague had come to town in Lady Eleanore's mantle. The people cursed her pride and pointed to the flags as her triumphal banners.
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