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"But," he interrupted, "do you know do you know that since since I spoke, since I told you, you've you've never touched me?" "Yes, I know it," she replied quietly. Something told him to be silent then. Something told him to wait till the night came and the camp was pitched once more. They rested at noon for several hours, as it was impossible to travel in the heat of the day.
"Let us agree that the first man who asks for food, who absents himself for more than a quarter of an hour, or who falls asleep in his chair, loses the bet." "I will take you at your word," I replied, "and I adhere to all your conditions." The chocolate came, we took it, and proceeded with our play. At noon we were summoned to dinner, but we both replied that we were not hungry.
These last became such an intolerable nuisance after a time, that she was forced to swathe herself in a hot and cumbering veil. The "back-ache" portage was worthy of its name that day, and it was considerably past noon before they arrived at the Indian village to which they were bound.
During the whole week, and always about noon, at the hour of the brightest sunlight, the butterflies arrived, but in decreasing numbers. The total approached forty. I thought it useless to repeat experiments which would add nothing to what I had already learned. I will confine myself to stating two facts.
His great strength, and his being always armed, at first deterred them from assassinating him; but at length the soldiers, having made his guards accomplices in their designs, set upon him while he slept at noon in his tent, and without opposition slew both him and his son, whom he had made his partner in the empire. 16.
Until nearly noon we kept steadily on, seeing nothing to indicate that we were near the trail. Just before noon we halted to rest and feed the animals and prepare a meal for ourselves. The morning had been sultry and we were all sufficiently fatigued to find a brief rest very acceptable.
He knew that the thread might break at any moment, but he believed that if Greif lived until sunrise he would live until noon, and die about three o'clock in the day. 'Herr Rex, he said quietly, 'I think you had better send for Frau von Sigmundskron, if she would wish to see him. You told me he had no other relation near.
And he followed, as did his heroic namesake in the golden noon of the age of fable. As they came in sight of the sea he halted. "That's curious!" he exclaimed; "there is the Ariani again!" "The yacht you came on?" "Yes. I wonder if there's been an accident. She cleared for Miami last night." They stood looking at the white steamer for a moment.
And now Sir Gibbie, though not much poorer than he had been, really possessed nothing separable, except his hair and his nails nothing therefore that he could call his, as distinguished from him. His sole other possession was a negative quantity his hunger, namely, for he had not even a meal in his body: he had eaten nothing since the preceding noon.
It was just as thrilling, Mary thought, to be in the Casino by day as by night, and even more interesting now, because she knew how to play, instead of having to depend upon Madame d'Ambre. She had feared that her too solicitous friend might be lying in wait for her this morning, but she need have had no anxiety. Madeleine never appeared before noon.
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