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The event proved the accuracy of their calculation, the lateness of the hour compelling L'Hôte and his companion to rouse the reluctant ferryman from his rest, a process which involved considerable delay; and they were consequently scarcely half way across the river when they heard the clatter of horses' hoofs upon the bank, and the voice of the Maréchal hoarsely shouting to their conductor instantly to return, or he should be hanged for his disobedience.
Is he alone there? 'Yes, answered the manager; 'he sent his assistant down the river with a note to me in these terms: "Clear this poor devil out of the country, and don't bother sending more of that sort. I had rather be alone than have the kind of men you can dispose of with me." It was more than a year ago. Can you imagine such impudence! 'Anything since then? asked the other hoarsely.
You were only a month or two old when he married Mary Wyvis, however; for your father died before your birth; but there was no secret made of it at the time, I believe. And it is nearly thirty years. Things get forgotten." "Mother, can this be true?" said Wyvis, hoarsely. He was forced into asking the question by Lady Caroline's cool persistence.
And there, in front of us, flanked by blockhouses with conical caps, was the frowning mass of Fort Sackville. "Take cover," said Williams, hoarsely. It seemed incredible. The men spread hither and thither, some at the corners of the church, some behind the fences of the little gardens. Tom chose a great forest tree that had been left standing, and I went with him.
"'It's a lie! here interrupted the man hoarsely. 'I didn't do it, constable; I swear I didn't do it. I saw him fall I was coming along a couple of hundred yards away, and I tried to see if the poor fellow was dead. I swear I didn't do it.
However, the bishop played his part in a soothingly conventional way, manipulated his apron and his calves with senile dignity, stood still and gazed ardently at ceilings and vistas, and said at intervals, explosively and hoarsely: "Ha! Very, interesting! Very interesting! Very fine! Very fine! Noble!"
"Then all ob us wot kin get off will come to bid yer annurrer good-by to-morrow mornin'!" came hoarsely from one of the crowd, and was repeated by all in a chorus.
"Either you write, or I do, and my words shall appear in three of the most prominent Parisian journals." Sanselme, with haggard eyes, did not seem to hear. Then suddenly he seized the pen and wrote what Benedetto required. "If I give you this paper," he said, hoarsely, "will you swear by good heavens! He believes in nothing! What will he swear by?"
Suddenly she paused in front of Nemu, and said so hoarsely that Nemu shuddered: "I wish she were a widow." "The little man made a gesture as if to protect himself from the evil eye, but at the same instant he slipped down from his pedestal, and exclaimed: "There is a chariot, and I hear his big dog barking. It is he. Shall I call Nefert?"
The horse broke its halter, ran headlong against its mate, recoiled, bumped into a tree trunk, and then the trees standing thick in front of it backed over the bank and went out of sight down the bluff, the moose bounding after it, still bellowing hoarsely.
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