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She began to talk in a hurried, disconnected way, trying to explain that she had not been quite well, and was not yet properly dressed. 'What a strange smell! Monica exclaimed, looking about the room. 'It's like brandy. 'You notice it? I have I was obliged to get to ask Mrs. Conisbee for I don't want to alarm you, dear, but I felt rather faint. Indeed, I thought I should have a fainting fit.
Beyond that his advance was stayed by the Sea Power of Great Britain, which at last wrought his ruin. Thus in the event the predictions of the British admiral were postponed, but not falsified. Nelson's characteristic impatience and energy hurried him on from the moment he took up his command. "I cannot sail before to-morrow," he said repeatedly in Portsmouth, "and that's an age."
I thought it was you, and you thought it was me, and " "Come, Tom," said Uncle Richard; and the boy hurried forward, and did not hear the end of David's speech. "Mind we put a secure fastening on those lower windows to-morrow morning," said Uncle Richard thoughtfully. "We ought to be able to live down in a place like this without nocturnal visitors; but there, one never knows."
In all probability they did not travel so fast." Glaciers are sometimes hurried out of their characteristic snail-pace. A marvelous spectacle is presented then. Mr.
To the Queen he presently hurried me, and said to her, "Here is a man that has not only saved my life, but your Guards and the whole Court."
As soon as he got into the wood he hurried as rapidly as he could toward Kibworth Rocks; and then when he got near them he walked slowly up and down the ride, with his head bowed and his hands clasped behind his back. And each evening the same thing happened.
He had set out to play the man; he sidled in through his own gateway like a whipped puppy. Not once during his ride did he look back, and he neither hurried nor loitered; the former he would not, and the latter he dared not do, for he felt that Basil was watching him. Never for an instant did he lose the consciousness that the beady, black eyes were upon him.
All decay is hurried out of sight, and through the glowing year flowers blossom and fruits ripen; ferns are always uncurling their young fronds and bananas unfolding their great shining leaves, and spring blends her everlasting youth and promise with the fulfilment and maturity of summer.
"They have heard much that is evil, these ears of mine." "And the evil has left them undefiled," said Saxham. "Thank you!" She begged him again not to forget the sick child at Mrs. Greening's shelter, and hurried away, keeping her face from Saxham. He knew that there was no hope for him, that there never would be any. And he loved her hungrily, hopelessly loved her.
"I must go home," she said hoarsely; and not pausing to think, only to get to Mamsie, she sped away on the wings of the wind, not stopping until she had turned in at the little green wicket-gate where she wouldn't be likely to meet any one. "Oh, dear, dear!" and she hurried across the grass "supposing Mamsie isn't at home! She was going out for Auntie. What shall I do?"
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