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Evelyn tripped away to put on her bonnet, and the children ran after her, clapping their hands, they could not bear to lose sight of her for a moment. "Caroline," said Mrs. Merton, affectionately, "are you not well? You have seemed pale lately, and not in your usual spirits."

"You've not been well lately, and hunting on the floes, I know from experience, is hard work." "Don't fear for me, Father; I've quite recovered from my recent attack, which was but slight after all, and I know full well that those who are well must work as long as they can stand." "Ho, lads, look alive there! are you ready?" shouted the first mate down the hatchway.

"Owen, old man, have you heard anything about Miss Rees lately?" "Heard anything?" He laid down his pipe and stared at his questioner. "Why should I hear anything? What is there to hear?" Before replying Barry rose, and stood leaning against the mantelpiece; and as he looked down on his friend his heart was wrung within him at the cruelty of fate. "You ... you've not seen her name in the papers?"

I ventured to unscrew one of my chairs, which were always fastened to the floor; and having made a hard shift to screw it down again, directly under the slipping board that I had lately opened, I mounted on the chair, and putting my mouth as near as I could to the hole, I called for help in a loud voice, and in all the languages I understood.

He listened, and recognised, with surprise, words of his own, which he had lately set to music, and was sufficiently pleased with to sing nightly.

The king, in order to awake the confidence of the commons, ordered Mr. secretary Vernon to lay before them copies of the treaties and conventions he had lately concluded, which were so well approved that the house unanimously voted the supply.

On the 23rd July, 1561, a few weeks after the scenes lately described, the Count of Egmont and the Prince of Orange addressed a joint letter to the King.

Here our compatriot, whose conversation with the Englishman at the Ombrone we had lately admired, showed traits of strict and severe method which afterward came into even bolder relief.

He then noticed the observations of Sir W. Yonge on the words of Sir S. Romilly; and desired him to reserve his indignation for those, who were guilty of acts of rapine, robbery, and murder, instead of venting it on those, who only did their duty in describing them. Never were accounts more shocking than those lately sent to government from the West Indies.

You will suit her admirably. As for me, I'm a rough, coarse sort of a fellow a newspaper correspondent, a useful literary hack that's all. I never quite understood until until lately what my position was in the eyes of the world." "Why, I thought you considered your profession a very high one," said Brian. "So I do. Only I'm at the bottom of the tree, and I want to be at the top."