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"Then I hope he'll do it frequently," grimaced Reade. "The need of frequent shooting indicates bad marksmanship." "Senor," begged Nicolas, "I would not joke about Gato. He means to kill you, or worse." "Worse?" queried Tom, raising his eyebrows. "How could that be?" The Mexican servant made a gesture of horror. "It is worse when our Mexican bandits torture a man," he replied, his voice shaking.
The Bishop's words have come down to us. 'For your admonition, he began, 'and for the edification of all those present, a learned discourse will now be delivered by the distinguished doctor, Nicolas Midi'; and the distinguished doctor then took for his text, from the first Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, twelfth chapter, the words: 'If one member suffereth, etc.
"Monsieur," said the baron in an agitated voice, recognizing Monsieur Joseph and Godefroid, and bowing to Monsieur Nicolas, "mercy gives rights to those it benefits." "You owe us nothing, monsieur;" said the good old Alain; "you owe everything to God." "You are saints, and you have the calmness of saints;" said the former magistrate; "you will therefore listen to me.
At the end of an hour she bade the boy farewell, and when again walking towards the Achtergracht with Herr von Warmond, he asked joyously: "How shall I get to the Beggars?" "You?" asked the captain in astonishment. "Yes, I!" replied the Junker eagerly. "I shall soon be seventeen, and when I am Wait, just wait you'll hear of me yet." "Right, Nicolas, right," replied the other.
Some leagues below Rozario, the western shore of the Parana is bounded by perpendicular cliffs, which extend in a long line to below San Nicolas; hence it more resembles a sea-coast than that of a fresh-water river. It is a great drawback to the scenery of the Parana, that, from the soft nature of its banks, the water is very muddy.
"No, no; I have already once in my life killed another such swordsman as you are; I will even say a better swordsman than you. Pardieu! you know him; he, too, was one of De Guise's retainers a lawyer, too." "Ah! Nicolas David!" said Borromée, terrified at the incident, and again placing himself on the defensive. "Exactly so." "It was you who killed him?"
The youth shrugged his shoulders, but Adrian cried: "Because you like your Spanish costume better than our doublets of Leyden cloth." Here he paused, for Jan Mulder stole behind Wibisma, struck his hat down on his head with a book, and while Nicolas Van Wibisma was trying to free his eyes from the covering that shaded them, exclaimed: "There, Sir Grandee, now the little hat sits firm!
A great pile of living embers diffused a strong and ruddy glow from the arched chimney. Before this straddled Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk, with his skirts picked up and his fat legs bared to the comfortable warmth. His dilated shadow cut the room in half; and the firelight only escaped on either side of his broad person, and in a little pool between his outspread feet.
I made haste about my equipment, and in a few days we set forth, myself on a good young chestnut gelding, Nicolas on a strong black mule, which carried also our baggage.
Henrica could not see him immediately, Father Damianus was with her, so he was obliged to wait in the dining-room until the priest appeared. Nicolas knew him well, and had even confessed to him once the year before. After greeting the estimable man and answering his inquiry how he had come there, he said frankly and hastily: "Forgive me, Father, but something weighs upon my heart.
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