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Once the genial heat began to spread Marcia Lowe set a kettle of water on the stove and then gave her maternal instincts full play. She gathered the slight form close and kissed again and again the thin oval cheek and close shut mouth. "Poor little, little girl!" The warmth and sound stole into Cynthia's far place and summoned her back.
Cluffe was, perhaps, a little bit stupid, and Lowe knew it; but it was the weakness of that good magistrate to discover in a witness for the crown many mental and moral attributes which he would have failed to recognise in him had he appeared for the prisoner. 'And where's that whip, now? demanded Lowe. 'By the hall-door, with his riding-coat, Sir, answered the bewildered housekeeper.
Perhaps his Imperial victim would have been the only person outside his family and official circle who would have deplored the act. It is pretty generally admitted that Lowe was detested by all classes who knew of the villainous methods adopted by him to give pain to Napoleon and to any one who showed the slightest sympathy towards him.
'And, Sir, said Lowe, 'if you please, I'll get this statement into the shape of a deposition or information, for you see 'tis of the vastest imaginable importance, and exactly tallies with evidence we've got elsewhere, and 'twouldn't do, Sir, to let it slip. And Toole thought he saw a little flush mount into Sturk's sunken face, and he hastened to say 'What we desire, Dr.
Don't you hear Aunt Ann?" "You promised, little Cyn!" whined Miss Walden, "you promised!" "I know all about it!" Cynthia murmured, still keeping her fear-filled eyes upon the caller "I, too, want you to go away!" Her training had fitted Marcia Lowe to understand and take alarm at what she beheld, but it also demanded that she leave at once.
Will you give him that leave?" And in one voice eight thousand people answered "No," which sealed the doom of the banker. Robert Lowe afforded one of the most noteworthy instances of a man who, having made a fine reputation in the House of Commons, failed to sustain it in the House of Lords.
Had the warning given so frequently to Sir Hudson Lowe been conveyed to his Government, and had they acted upon it, there is little doubt that a change of climate would have prolonged the Emperor's life. But in going over those dreary nauseous documents which relate the tale, one becomes permeated with the belief that the intention was to torture, if not to kill. Dr. Antommarchi, who succeeded Dr.
"Forward" was still the veteran's cry: and through the cavalry they cut their way: through hostile footmen that had stolen round to the village they also burst, and at last found shelter near Bergères. "Words fail me," wrote Colonel Hudson Lowe, "to express my admiration at their undaunted and manly behaviour." This gallant retreat shed lustre over the rank and file.
He stared at his wife as if he had just become conscious of her presence. The grayness in his face deepened, and his lips grew livid. Like a man condemned to death, he stared at the world he was losing. "Who is Bessie Lowe?" Leila questioned. "And why have they called you to tell of her?" Her eyes blazed with a fire that seemed about to singe pretense from his soul.
'Yes, said Dangerfield, briskly, ''twill depend on her; I'll suggest, she'll decide. 'And why she, Sir? said Lowe sharply.
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