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At the Players' Club, in New York City, in the last winter of Edwin Booth's life, I related this incident to him as a childish tribute to his father's power. "Yes," he said, "that was my father, and such things often happened among women and children when he was playing that character. He was dangerous at times, not to his audiences, but occasionally to his fellow actors."
"Does he think I can be always at his beck and call?" thought she. "She is always after her sister," said he. He was just beginning to be jealous of Josephine when the following incident occurred: Rose and the doctor were discussing Josephine. Edouard pretended to be reading a book, but he listened to every word. Dr. Aubertin gave it as his opinion that Madame Raynal did not make enough blood.
Two years passed, unmarked by any incident of importance. Paul continued in Mr. Danforth's employment, giving, if possible, increased satisfaction. He was not only faithful, but exhibited a rare aptitude for business, which made his services of great value to his employer. From time to time Mr.
Others produced, from bamboo tubes, parchments of equally royal origin, setting forth in grandiloquent Spanish the confidence reposed by the Sovereign in such and such a cabecilla. This day's journey was without incident of any sort. But, like all our other rides, it took us through country that beggars one's powers of description.
By the end of April the Duke of Parma saw himself at the head of 60,000 men, at a monthly expense of 454,315 crowns or dollars. Yet so rapid was the progress of disease incident to northern climates among those southern soldiers, that we shall find the number woefully diminished before they were likely to set foot upon the English shore.
Douglas Stone in his prime was one of the most remarkable men in England. Indeed, he could hardly be said to have ever reached his prime, for he was but nine-and-thirty at the time of this little incident. Those who knew him best were aware that, famous as he was as a surgeon, he might have succeeded with even greater rapidity in any of a dozen lines of life.
"It is true, they all deserted me. They all ran away when they knew you were in the country, but I brought them back, and held them until the incident at the house where you found those things." "So you are now the only one to look to for the history of this bit of deviltry?" "I stand alone," was the reply. "Alone, with the exception of these men I who were arrested with me.
They helped him a little prescribed by the greatest of all doctors, our natural taste. It was nearly seven when he heard her come in. The incident of the night before had long lost its importance under stress of anxiety at her strange sortie into the fog. But now that Irene was home, the memory of her broken-hearted sobbing came back to him, and he felt nervous at the thought of facing her.
Botticelli's illustrations are crowded with incident, blending, with a naive carelessness of pictorial propriety, three phases of the same scene into one plate.
That evening, however, an incident occurred which had there been a critic to note it would have taken all colour from the theory that the wish to be quite by herself had caused her to dispense with her cousin's attendance.
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