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Well, you kill one some day kill him in a fair give-and-take fight and see how it makes you feel, and what influence it has on you, and then come back and talk to me." It was long after midnight. Wilbur rose. "We'll ring for a boy," said Ridgeway, "and get you a room. I can fix you out with clothes enough in the morning."

The noise is broken and crushed in a huge rumble without a specialized sound, except when, after midnight, the headlong clatter of a cab-horse distinguishes itself from the prevailing bulk.

But it was not till after an exhausting walk, and some time past midnight, that she reached the bridge leading over the river to the tavern, where the trial was proceeding; and then only to encounter another great obstacle to her progress.

As it was, I got up soon after midnight, and cautiously stepping among the sleeping forms, went out of doors.

In 1816 a young commercial traveler named Gaudissart, who frequented the Cafe David, sat drinking from eleven o'clock till midnight with a half-pay officer. He was so rash as to discuss a conspiracy against the Bourbons, a rather serious plot then on the point of execution.

For days past the comet had been blazing brighter and brighter, even in the broad daylight, and the reports which came pouring in every day from the observatories of the world made it perfectly clear that Lennard's calculations would be verified at midnight.

She has initiated you into all her mysteries, and you owe her eternal friendship and everlasting gratitude." It was midnight, and we went on wasting our time in this desultory conversation, when the prudent and careful servant brought us an excellent supper. I could not touch anything, my heart was too full, but my dear little wife supped with a good appetite.

About midnight a man in the uniform of a sea-fencible joined you: and you may remember some conversation you had with him?"

"What!" said the King, "do you know better than the doctors?" "I know," I replied, "what the small-pox is by my own experience, which is better than all the doctors; but I hope from my heart that I may be mistaken." On the same night, soon after midnight, the Dauphin died. He was quite humpbacked.

To vary the experiment, I had often thought of trying a personal reconnoissance by swimming, at a certain point, whenever circumstances should make it an object. The opportunity at last arrived, and I shall never forget the glee with which, after several postponements, I finally rode forth, a little before midnight, on a night which seemed made for the purpose.