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It was difficult to imagine that the citizens would not combine together in some great and mighty effort to save their homes and their sanctuary before it should be too late. "What an awful sight!" exclaimed a soft voice behind her. "Heaven grant the peril be not so nigh as it looks!"
'Nothing; but they are both so proud, neither will give in first. I certainly don't think, mother, that Gladys's feelings are very seriously involved. She takes the whole thing very calmly. 'George should not be too high and mighty at this early stage, my dear, said Mrs. Fordyce. 'He will find that Gladys has a mind of her own, and will not be dictated to.
I've got no romance about me, and why should I have? I can just remember seeing the trail of that monster called advancement that mighty thing called progress, though in the guise of war, and that thing swallowed the romance of this country. I say that I can remember seeing the fading trail, but I know its history and I know that if it did not swallow romance it should have done so.
The fear of so mighty a calamity as the loss of our adored infant made the current of my blood pause with chilly horror; but the remembrance of the mother restored my presence of mind. I sought the little bed of my darling; he was oppressed by fever; but I trusted, I fondly and fearfully trusted, that there were no symptoms of the plague.
With a supreme effort Twala swung the Englishman clean off his feet, and down they came together, rolling over and over on the lime paving, Twala striking out at Curtis' head with the battle-axe, and Sir Henry trying to drive the tolla he had drawn from his belt through Twala's armour. It was a mighty struggle, and an awful thing to see.
"'Twas near about this time of the year that we started on our travels," said I, in response to Dawson's reminder. "Aye, I recollect 'twas mighty cold when we set sail, and the fruit trees were all bursting into bloom when we came into France. I would we were there now; eh, Moll?" "What, dear?" asks she, rousing herself at this direct question. "I say, would you be back there now, child?"
"I tell you what it is," he went on. "You boys get mighty close to the wind swilling prohibited liquor. It's against the spirit of the law anyway." But the agent's good humor warmed again under the officer's admission of his difficulties. He was an irrepressible fellow when opportunity offered. Usually he lived in a condition of utter boredom.
He remembered how the Director had told him that when they were unrolling this mighty monarch they went away to lunch, and that presently the man who had been left in charge of the body rushed into the room with his hair on end, and said that the dead king had lifted his arm and pointed at him.
"Sorry to disturb you, old fellow," he said, "but there is a most curious sky effect behind us which I thought you might like to see." I rose and looked. In the clear, starlight night I could just discern the mighty outline of the mountains of Mur. Above them the firmament was suffused with a strange red glow.
"Well, for your own sake, as well as your old mother's, I hope to God you ain't!" said Sol. "But this here thing looks mighty bad for somebody, Joe. I'm goin' to take you over to Bill Frost's and turn you over to the law." Joe made no comment, but led the way around the house.
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