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Sheldon, surgeon-dentist; and the dwellers in Fitzgeorge-street amused themselves in their leisure hours by speculative discussions upon the character and pursuits, belongings and surroundings, of this gentleman. Of course he was eminently respectable. On that question no Fitzgeorgian had ever hazarded a doubt.
"'When the purse will not open, slit it!" he hazarded, desperately choosing, on the off-chance of its correctness, the password of the Apache. "It is not the right one! It is by no means the right one!" she made reply, backing away from him suddenly, her absinthe-brightened eyes deriding him, her absinthe-sharpened laughter mocking him. "Your thoughts are in the Bois, cher ami.
Such stray phrases as these that fell from his lips always kept the knowledge in her mind of how hard he was. "Has he been unkind to her?" she hazarded. She forced a spurious interest to please him. "She says not but then she doesn't know. It's perhaps as well that she doesn't.
"Tell the prince that if he will not grant me the honors of war, I will set fire to the four corners of Prague, and bury myself under its ruins." The destruction of Prague, with all its treasures of architecture and art, was too serious a calamity to be hazarded. Chevert was permitted to retire with the honors of war, and with his division he soon rejoined the army at Egra.
At last, however, something seemed to occur to him. A smile broke on his face. "You had a stupid time last night?" he hazarded. "What makes you think so?" "I know who took you in to dinner." The eyes of the girl narrowed slightly at the corners. "Did he tell you?" "No, I have neither seen nor heard from anyone present." She opened her eyes wide, now. "Well, Mr. S. Holmes, who was it?"
"Not that I care," commented the other easily, "only risks is worth paying for." "There shall not be risk." "Pearls likely?" hazarded the other, without much heed to the assurance. "Them Jap gunboats is getting pretty hard to dodge of late years. However, I've dodged 'em before." "Now as to pay how mooch iss your boat worth?"
And when every one was eager for the place, contrary to the expectation of all, he passed by the rest and chose Lucius Furius, the very same man who lately, against the judgment of Camillus, had rashly hazarded and nearly lost a battle; willing, as it should seem, to dissemble that miscarriage, and free him from the shame of it.
He did not know the King, who spoke to him, nor anybody else; and defended himself as long as he could against Felix, who, in this pressing necessity, hazarded bleeding him, and succeeded. Consciousness returned. Monseigneur asked for a confessor; the King had already sent for, the cure. Many emetics were given to him: but two hours passed before they operated.
"It's either this," and she rolled her eyes expressively about the room, "or it's I don't know what!" "Perhaps we're too many," Peter hazarded to her daughter. "But really you'll find, after you fairly begin, that you'll do better with four or five."
'And then, when I had wholly hazarded my life upon what I was doing, my whole spirit seemed to me suddenly to break through the gates of hell, and to be taken up into the arms and the heart of GOD. I can compare it to nothing else but the resurrection at the last day.
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