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Hastily directing an aid-de-camp to the spot with some new order, General Harero issued another to his officers for the lines to be kept firm, and preparations were instantly set about for another and more certain attempt upon the life of the condemned, who seemed to the spectators to have escaped by some divine interposition, little less than a miracle.
Reflection decided her on saying nothing, for that night at least. She crossed the passage, and entered the spare room the room which she had declined to occupy on her arrival at the cottage, and which she was obliged to sleep in now. She was instantly struck by a change in the disposition of the furniture of the room. The bed had been moved.
The tumult of angry and warlike yells was checked instantly, and then from the depths of the woods went out such a tremulous and prolonged wail of mournful fear and utter despair as may be imagined to follow the flight of the last hope from the earth.
They may be necessary in this business they are papers which I could trust only to one who has my interests at heart." Mr. Temple's face brightened instantly, and bowing much lower than usual, he received the key with great respect, and hurried away to search for the papers. "For a similar reason, Mr. Alfred Percy," said Lord Oldborough, "they shall, if you please, be put into your hands."
Kassander, however, instantly began to plot against Polysperchon, and taking time by the forelock, sent Nikanor in haste to supersede Menyllus, before the news of the death of Antipater became publicly known, with orders to make himself master of Munychia.
But he descanted almost instantly from Mr. Clifton, to whom his phrase alluded, to me; adding it was high time now to do me too.
The poor wretch regained the shallop, which was very near the pinnace, which we were in, my father supplicated M. Laperere, the officer of the boat, to receive him on board, and had his arms already out to catch him, when M. Laperere instantly let go the rope which attached us to the other boats, and tugged off with all his force.
But when he found that, after all, he had to fight or else exist on sufferance as a despised creature among them, the butt of every fool and bully, he did fight in a way which he had never been taught and could not teach to another. It was nature: it was in him. When the dangerous moment came and knives flashed out, he was instantly transformed into a different being.
Lathrop, unless," he went on briskly, "you are referring to a future state, when, as Mrs. Lathrop, you will make me " Miss Farrar had turned her back on him, and was walking rapidly up the path. "Beatrice," he called. "I am coming after you!" Miss Farrar instantly returned and placed both hands firmly upon the gate. "I cannot understand you!" she said.
No one dared to tell him, when the Ogress, all enraged to see what had happened, threw herself head foremost into the tub, and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown into it to kill the others. The King was of course very sorry, for she was his mother; but he soon comforted himself with his beautiful wife and his pretty children.
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