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The woman, who was possibly thirty, must once have been possessed of a fragile type of beauty, but it was irretrievably lost now in the premature age that had evidently settled upon her. Struggling to a sitting posture, I saw that the thick white fog had closed densely, and that the woodland back of us was barely distinguishable. We too seemed shut in, as in a room. "You live at Mrs.
"Then, before you do so, pray weigh carefully the dire results," he urged in a changed tone. "Oh, I've already done that long ago," she said. "I know that I am in your hands, utterly and irretrievably, Mr. Flockart, and the only way I can regain my freedom is by boldly telling the truth." "You must never do that! By Heaven, you shall not!" he cried, looking fiercely into her clear eyes. "I know!
"Unfortunately, we cannot do that!" Blaine responded, gravely. "To attempt to communicate with him where I have sent him would be to show our hand irretrievably to the men we are fighting and undo much of the work which has been accomplished. He may communicate with you or possibly with me, if he finds that he can contrive to accomplish it safely." "Safely?
He walked on without seeing and hearing always with that thought in his heart "She is in terrible pain. How can God be so cruel? And she was so happy before I came she was so happy now what have I done to her?" Never, before to-night, had he felt so sharply, so irretrievably his sense of responsibility.
It spares us, indeed, all necessity of quoting the vile language uttered by members of the Free Church Assembly, if we say, that the neutral witnesses of such unchristian outrages have murmured, remonstrated, protested in every direction; and that Dr, Macfarlane, who has since corresponded with the Duke of Sutherland upon the whole case viz. upon the petition for land, as affected by the shocking menaces of the Seceders has, in no other way, been able to evade the double mischief of undertaking a defence for the indefensible, and at the same time of losing the land irretrievably, than by affecting an unconsciousness of language used by his party little suited to his own sacred calling, or to the noble simplicities of Christianity.
Did that letter give any clue to the assassin? But the precious document, whatever it might be, was now irretrievably lost, and the death of "Mr. Charles Whitaker, late of the Stock Exchange," as the papers put it, remained one of the many murder-mysteries of the city of Florence. Months had gone by months of constant travel and loneliness, grief and despair.
Satisfied that the enemy's despair would dearly sell a victory, while a defeat would irretrievably ruin the Emperor's affairs, he resolved to wear out the ardour of his opponent by a tedious blockade, and by thus depriving him of every opportunity of availing himself of his impetuous bravery, take from him the very advantage which had hitherto rendered him invincible.
At last she had sent for him. His life was not to be irretrievably blasted, after all. Virginia was ready to forgive him and to come home again. He could scarcely believe his ears and in his joy he was ready to embrace the polished surface of the telephone. A reconciliation was possible without the sacrifice of his self-respect.
He had failed, and failed often, before that time failed once humiliatingly and irretrievably, so the ordinary man would say. So the ordinary man did say, and say hard and often. The details of his early catastrophes are not worth while here. The point is that they did not affect him except to make him stronger.
The peaceful merchants, and artisans, and husbandmen of the distant provinces over which he expected to rule, would yield the revenues necessary to fill the treasuries thus exhausted. Still, Caesar's expenditures were so lavish, and the debts he incurred were so enormous, that those who had not the most unbounded confidence in his capacity and his powers believed him irretrievably ruined.
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