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And the steamer loomed into sight: nearer it came and nearer. They were upon its track: surely succour was nigh at hand. And succour came. The great vessel slackened its pace: it came to a standstill and waited, heaving to and fro upon the waters, as if it were a live thing with a beating and compassionate heart.

Ralph sat up and rubbed his eyes. The sun was shining and the car empty, with the exception of himself and a negro brakeman, who had awakened him from an unusually sound slumber. "Where are we?" he asked. "We'se in Savanny. Been yere nigh 'bout an hour. I seed yo' was tired, an' I 'lowed I'd let yer sleep. But I'se got ter sweep out now."

She took her lute, and slipping into the court in front of the palace she sang, clear and sweet: 'I sing the captive's longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call. 'My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I play my gentle lay I linger near your door.

Thus the man chattered like a jay, bowing low at nigh every word, until they came to the house wherein Israel and his people were to rest until sunset; and always the burden of his words was the same the Sultan, the Sultan, the Sultan, and Abd er-Rahman, Abd er-Rahman! Israel could bear no more. "Basha," he said "it is a mistake; the Sultan has not sent for me, and neither am I going to see him."

There now arose a discussion as to what was the "number of the year." Aunt Judy knew that the "war" was somewhere along in "sixty," and thought it must certainly be seventy or eighty by this time; while Uncle Braddock, who was accustomed to look back a long way, was sure it was "nigh on to a hun'red."

By to-morrow nigh many of those on our black list will " "Your black list?" "Yes, already mostly made out for operations. But what is there to startle you in that?" "Nothing; and yet I cannot forbear asking if that list includes one in whose family you may guess I feel some interest." "I fear so, and regret that the proofs are so strong as to require it."

Now in a while the white friar raised his heavy head and looked round about, and lo! his eyes were vacant no longer, and as folk strove to come more nigh, he spake, hoarse-voiced and feeble. "O children, grieve not for me, for though this body suffer a little, my soul doth sit serene. What though I stand in bonds, yet doth my soul go free.

They are cold in love to the saints, they are cold in the worship of God; Yea, very cold, which is a notable demonstration that the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. And how many professors do you see now a-days, fall from the doctrine of God, and his Son Jesus Christ, as though there were no such thing as a world to come, and no such thing as a Lord Jesus Christ, and his second coming.

So the lad in the cap said again, 'Take your time, sir, take your time. But I said to him, 'God help me, sir, I've taken very nigh all I'll get, for I declare to you, lad, I'm over seventy years of age. But as for your time, sir, I said, 'I'll be wastin' no more of it. And wid that I put down the book, and out I wint. I mind the sun in the square nearly dazzled the eyes out of me fool's head.

The soldier, burning with fierce ardour, proposed that they should take post respectively the one at the head, the other at the outlet of the vale, and creeping as nigh the enemy as they could, deliver their fire, and then rushing on, before the savages could recover from their surprise, do their best to finish the affair with their hatchets, a plan, which, as he justly said, offered the only prospect of cutting off the retreat of those who might survive the fire.