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The sidewalk was obstructed by an assortment of interested neighbours, who opened a lane from time to time for a hurrying messenger bearing from McGary's goods pertinent to festivity and diversion. The sidewalk contingent was engaged in comment and discussion from which it made no effort to eliminate the news that Norah Walsh was being married.
And that I was in no danger of being again given up to the villains Cadwallader and Talmash, or their Instrument Gnawbit, was clear, I think, from what Captain Handsell told me: That the Person bringing the letter the Pardon itself being in the hands of a King's Messenger had the appearance, although dressed in a lay habit, of being a Foreign Ecclesiastic.
Do what you know you ought to do, yield yourselves to Jesus Christ. And do it now, whilst impressions are being made, lest, if you let them sleep, they may never return. Felix trembled when Paul reasoned; but he waved away the messenger and the message, and though he sent for Paul often, and communed with him, he never trembled any more.
The messenger also intimated that if the offer he had brought were not quickly accepted say within two hours the time for capitulation would have gone by, and that he would not be answerable for what the people might then do in their fury. The general accepted the conditions as amended, and the envoy disappeared.
He left the house where he lives with two other priests but a short distance from the gate of the temple at his usual hour. It was his turn to offer the sacrifices at dawn, and it must have been still dark when he left the house. As he did not arrive at the proper time a messenger was sent to fetch him, and he found him lying dead but a few paces from his own door, stabbed to the heart."
That no man could tell them; so they came home to their lodging at length in the dark night, there to wait through endless-seeming hours for morning. On the Sunday they had chosen for their wedding-day Mazurier brought word of Victor to Jacqueline, was really a messenger, as he announced himself, when she opened for him the door of her room in the fourth story of the great lodging-house.
But the clerk sprang to his feet and, thrusting his pen behind his ear as if he were shouldering arms, said in a loud consequential voice: "Ay, I sent a messenger along to your residence the same time I 'phoned up to the Head Office to hev' the patient put on the danger list! Everything possible is done in the way of consideration for the feelings of friends and relations!"
The note sealed, I rang the bell for the landlord, desired him to send it up to the hall and tell the messenger to wait for an answer. As our host was leaving the room he turned round, with his hand on the door, and said: 'Beggin' your pardon, Mr. Cook, would you and Mr. Napeer please to take dinner here?
In the mean time Nero was waiting impatiently and anxiously in his palace at Baiæ, for the arrival of a messenger from Anicetus to inform him that his plot had been successful, and that his mother was drowned. Instead of this a rumor of her escape reached him some time before Agrippina's messenger arrived, and threw him into consternation.
"I fear it will!" returned our adventurer, who had not ceased, during the previous dialogue, to keep his look fastened, in manly commiseration, on the countenance of the boy; "I greatly fear it will! Since I have come the messenger of another, Captain Heidegger it is your province to supply a fitting answer to my proposition."
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