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Lamartine was born at Mâcon, October 21, 1790. His father was imprisoned during the Terror, narrowly escaping the guillotine. Taught at first by his mother, young Lamartine was sent to a boarding school at Lyons, and later to the college of the Pères de la Foi at Belley.
Rising, he found it and inspected the cork narrowly to make sure it had not been tampered with; then he drew it. The khansamah returned with the glass and an unopened bottle of Schweppe's, and prepared the drink under eyes that watched him narrowly. While Amber drank he laid a place for him at the table.
The Colonel laughed, with wheezy facetiousness. "Why, she she. Young men don't build nests or saw-mills unless there is a she in the case." "There isn't " began Jerome. Then he shut his mouth hard and walked on. "It's only my joke, Jerome," laughed the Colonel, but there was no responsive smile on Jerome's face. Colonel Lamson eyed him narrowly.
He gives an amusing account of his first day in London, on the streets of which city he appeared in a most brilliantly colored shawl waistcoat, and narrowly escaped being pelted by the enraged mob, for the English people were then in mourning for the death of George III, which had recently occurred, and Spohr's gay attire was construed as a public insult.
"I have, to be sure, many pleasures, and meat sufficient; and plenty of chat, in virtue of my office, and I pick up a good deal of news of the comers and goers by day, but it is hard that at night I must watch as narrowly as a house-dog, and yet let in no company without orders; only because there is said to be a few straggling robbers here in the wilderness, with whom my master does not care to let us be acquainted.
Hazel did not realize how anxiously she awaited the answer to that question. Somehow she felt a jealous dislike of any one who might belong to him, even a mother and a sudden thought of sister or wife who might share the little shanty cabin with him made her watch his face narrowly. But the answer was quick, with almost a shadow like deep longing on his face: "Oh, no, I have no one. I'm all alone.
"I know," she said, "that you will say I can't understand, that my feeling is only a woman's squeamishness or ignorance.... But, John, I can't bear to think of our going back to it, living on in that way, the hard way of success, as it would be in New York." Lane looked at her narrowly. He was trying to account for this new attitude in his wife.
The sick man looked at him narrowly, with oddly smiling eyes. 'That's it, is it? he replied. Matilda heard and understood. 'So that's your big idea, is it, my little man, she said to herself. She had always said of Hadrian that he had no proper respect for anybody or anything, that he was sly and common. She went down to the kitchen for a sotto voce confab with Emmie.
He was yet watching, watching narrowly, the flame that still smouldered and might blaze afresh at any moment. "Give it up, Boney!" he said at last. "I'll go with you to the ends of the earth sooner than let you do this thing, and you'll find me a very considerable encumbrance. Do you honestly believe yourself capable of shunting me at will?"
He carried his cane under his arm now, and was holding his lantern close to something that he held in his hand, and upon which he looked narrowly as he walked with a slow and measured tread in a perfectly straight line across the sand, counting each step as he took it. "And twenty-five, and twenty-six, and twenty-seven, and twenty-eight, and twenty-nine, and thirty."
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