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Just as, having mounted the steps, she set foot on the fatal boards, the executioner came forward, and; asking forgiveness for the duty he was about to perform, kneeled, hiding behind him his axe. Mary saw it, however, and cried "Ah! I would rather have been beheaded in the French way, with a sword!..."
The sultan commanded both to bring their caskets before him: he took the little crown from the cushion in his hand, and, wonderful to see! it became larger and larger, until it reached the size of a real crown. Placing it on his son Omar, who kneeled before him, he kissed his forehead, and bade him sit upon his right hand. To Labakan, however, he turned and said:
Now the master kneeled at the head of the beast and took the scarred, shaggy head between his hands. "Bart!" he commanded. Not a stir in the long, black body. The stallion edged a pace closer, dropped his velvet muzzle, and whinnied softly at the very ear of the dog. Still, there was not an answering quiver. "Bart!" called the man again, and there was a ring of wild grief of fear in his cry.
"O yea," said Agatha, "whereas he stood before my Lord a good while, and then kneeled to him to pray pardon for one of our men who had done ill in the tilting: yea, he was nigh enough to her to touch her had he dared, and to smell the fragrance of her raiment. And he seemed to think it good to look out of the corners of his eyes at her; though I do not say that she smiled on him."
She rang the bell for aid, then kneeled, and took his throbbing temples to her wifely bosom. Wheeler picked himself up, and, seated on his hams, eyed the pair with concentrated fury. "Aha! You have hurt yourself more than me. Two suits against you now instead of one." "Conduct this person from the house," said Lady Bassett to a servant who entered at that moment.
"They gave her a military funeral this evening, the Fourth Cuirassiers. The Emperor gave his permission, and sent General Degeon of the staff to be present. And when they placed her in the grave, one of the soldiers, a corporal, I believe, kneeled down to kiss her before they covered in the earth; and when he had done so, he lay slowly down on his face on the grass.
Pole was in the utmost perplexity, and spoke of baronets as things almost holy, to be kneeled to, prayed for. He was profane. "I thought, papa," said Cornelia, "that women conferred the favour when they gave their hands!" It was a new light to the plain merchant. "How should you say if a Prince came and asked for you?" "Still that he asked a favour at my hands." "Oh!" went Mr.
Then Sir de Lorche first kneeled before the princess, then before Danusia; then he arose and stood silently, clad in his armor, on which the red light of the fire was playing. He stood motionless, as if plunged in ecstasy, because for him also, that white girl with a wreath of immortelles on her brow seemed like the picture of an angel, seen on the window of a Gothic cathedral.
Then the elephant kneeled and took the twain upon his back, and bore them across the dark land to that reach of the river where the boat was moored in readiness. Then, when Abarak turned to him for the reason of the flashing of the Sword, he beheld the eyes of the youth fixed in horror, glaring as at sights beyond the tomb.
A low murmur of astonishment ran around the vast cavern. Then, as if by common impulse, every one kneeled down, Dirola alone of all the Esquimaux remaining upright. The cave dwellers were bowing down to one they either feared or loved. Then Dirola spoke. At first her words were slow. Gradually she talked faster, until she was speaking a very torrent of sounds.
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