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Every effort was made to find the fifteen men left behind the year before by Grenville to hold possession for the Queen. Mounds of earth, which may even now be traced, so piously have their last remains been cared for, marked the site of the fort. From natives of Croatoan Island the newcomers learned that Grenville's men had been murdered by hostile Indians.
Swollen by incessant rains, Cat Creek had spilled over its banks an angry flood which, after scooping out unsightly hollows wherever the soil had been disturbed, had partly subsided, as if ashamed of the sacrilege, leaving exposed much that had been piously concealed.
Horse-railroads not being as new to me as to the Japanese, I piously chose the narrow way leading to the temple, to the lingering regret of the baggage trundlers, who turned sorry eyes down upon the easier secular road at every bend in our own. A Japanese pass has one feature which is invariable: it is always longer than you think it is going to be.
The women have not been ill treated, and although five executioners were kept busily at work there has been nothing like a general massacre." "Thank God for that," the prince said piously. "That has eased my mind. I feared that the horrors of Zutphen and Naarden had been re-enacted." "I have another piece of good news to give you, sir.
And just so when Lisbon was swallowed up by an earthquake, ninety years ago, the little children perished as well as the grown people just as in the Irish famine fever last year, many a doctor and Roman Catholic priest, and Protestant clergyman, caught the fever and died while they were piously attending on the sick.
Even when the period of tension was over, and Undine had been officially received into the family of her betrothed, Madame de Trezac did not at once surrender. She laughingly professed to have had enough of the proprieties, and declared herself bored by the social rites she had hitherto so piously performed.
"These are the two poor things I saw in the morning," cried Sylvia. "Oh, Maurice, these two poor babies driven to suicide!" "Condemning their young souls to everlasting fire," said Meekin, piously. "Mr. Meekin! How can you talk like that? Poor little creatures! Oh, it's horrible! Maurice, take me away." And she burst into a passion of weeping.
But I repent and am afflicted. Though the dead know nothing though it can never reach or avail him give me back the power to be just!" Late that afternoon Honoria passed an hour piously in turning over the dead man's wardrobe, shaking out and brushing the treasured garments and folding them, against moth and dust, in fresh tissue paper.
I took the liberty of buying an emergency wedge while I was out." Kenny wiped his forehead in amazed relief and piously thanked God he hadn't wasted his appetite on middle-aged cakes. "If you hadn't come when you did," he said, "I'd likely had to eat 'em, thanks to Reynolds. Now I'll send 'em up to H. B." He peered disgustedly into the bag and removed an irrelevant ace of spades.
"Hep's the word," George affirmed: "John W. Hep, of the well-known family of that name very closely related to the Jeremiah Wises. Yunno who I mean, don't you?" "Sorry," said P. Sybarite sadly: "I'm not even distinctly connected with either family." "You mean you don't make me?" "God forestalled me there," protested P. Sybarite piously. "Inscrutable!"
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