United States or Somalia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He ground his teeth and clenched his fists at every detonation, but stood stock-still with no desire to leave, dominated by the violence of the explosions, admiring the serenity of these men who were giving orders, erect and coolly, or moving like humble menials around their roaring metal beasts. All his ideas seemed to have been snatched away by that first discharge of cannon.
His secretary, a pious servant of the Lord, dreamt he saw his master's soul devoured by demons, and persuaded him to confess his sins. It was too late, for a few days later he died; his death was, however, kept a secret by his menials, who wished to have plenty of time to make a generous division of his fortune.
But this offer my wife and I respectfully declined; and once more she altered her will, which once more she had made in our favour; called us ungrateful wretches and pampered menials, and left all her property to the Irish Hoggarties.
No, father, grief can ill be mistaken for joy All wept, all shrieked around me my mother the menials she too, the cause of my crime all wept and I I could hardly disguise my brutal and insane joy under the appearance of revenge Brother, I said, I cannot give thee tears, but I will give thee blood Yes, father, as I counted hour after hour, while I kept watch upon the English prisoner, and said, I am an hour nearer to hope and to happiness "
Yet in her nervous state of health, her ever-quick and uncontrollable feelings, if you were to meet her, she would disguise nothing, conceal nothing. The veil would be torn aside: the menials in her own house would tell the tale, and curiosity circulate, and scandal blacken the story of her early errors.
Two hundred thousand nay some, counting the lower menials and numerous unfortunate females, say four hundred thousand were got congregated into that little Swiss town; and there as an Ecumenic Council, or solemnly distilled elixir of what pious intellect and valor could be scraped together in the world, they labored with all their select might for four years' space.
Every sensation seems deserting me rapidly, but one and that is a mother's feeling! You will leave me here to die, amongst menials and strangers!" "Miss Tremayne?" said I, soothingly. "Is but a hired companion; engaged only since the occurrence of these attacks. Yes, you will desert me to these and for what, God of retribution! to hunt down the life of my only son!
At the door she paused and turned for the intimate remark. "I cannot endure parrots," she said impressively. To this dictum the menials crouched. The servants departed: the garden was now empty save for Lady Mary and me. She continued a pensive strolling. Now, I could see plainly that here fate had arranged for some kind of interview. The whole thing was set like a scene in a theatre.
She could not know my tastes, and perhaps she had thought but little on the subject, and had taken her ideas from her father. He is just the man to be contented with nothing else than a vast sprawling hotel, with disdainful menials expecting tips." I rolled my bicycle along the little path which ran around the green, and knocked upon the open door of Holly Sprig Inn.
She had waded through snowdrifts and been drenched in pouring rains, she had been frozen with the cold and prostrated with the heat, she had been blown about by Chicago wind until it was strange there was any of her left in one piece, she had had front doors yes, and back doors too, slammed in her face, she had been the butt of the alleged wit of menials and hirelings, she had been patronised by vapid women as the poor girl who must make her living some way, she had been roasted by but never mind she had had a beat or two!
Word Of The Day