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My faithful Uncle Christian Pfinzing, who played the host to the Emperor and Empress at the Castle as representing the town council, had brought his "dear watchman" hither and placed her in the keeping of certain motherly dames. Presently, seeing a moment when she might speak with me, Ann said in my ear: "I will end this sport, Margery; I can no longer endure it.
Nearly a month had elapsed when Emerson at last expressed to George the discouragement that for several days had lain silently in both men's minds. "It looks like failure, doesn't it?" "Sure does! You've played your string out, eh?" "Absolutely. I've done everything except burglary, but I can't raise that hundred thousand dollars.
David played with some food, took one thing up after another, laid it down, and at last sprang up and seized his hat. 'Going out again? asked the minister, trembling, he knew not why. The lad muttered something. Instinctively the little lame fellow, who was closest to the door, rushed to it and threw himself against it. 'David, don't don't go out alone let me go with you!
She was a handsome girl, of course, and she knew it knew how to use her eyes, and make the men forget that she was only a Jewess, a thing to be played with but despised no better than a gipsy wench, not for a Hungarian peasant to look upon as an equal, to think of as a possible mate.
This inspiration business is played out. I have never had the worth of the frames out of those portraits.... Ah, the Balkans. That was it. And of all the flat, interminable Arctic wastes of bleak wickedness and frozen error that ever a shivering writer had to traverse....
Hardy, having played one or two very brilliant fantasias on the Jews’-harp, and having frequently repeated the exquisitely amusing joke of slily chalking a large cross on the back of some member of the committee, Mr. Percy Noakes expressed his hope that some of their musical friends would oblige the company by a display of their abilities.
"Why," said the weasel, "I will tell you the reason; this afternoon the rat played me a very mean and scurvy trick; he disgraced me before the king, and made me a common laughing-stock to all the council, for which I swore to have his life. Besides, upon one occasion he bit his teeth right through my ear the marks of it are there still. See for yourself."
He, on the contrary, directly he had bent his knee to the Duke, turned to where she stood, and, in face of the whole city, put his arms about her, and found a way to kiss her cheek. The broad ring of onlookers wavered; the twitches played like summer lightning over Borso's face. "Come here, Angioletto," he said. Angioletto drew near the throne.
Such an implement is not strong enough for batting the ball, neither do they bat it, but simply shove or thrust it along the ground." He says "They also take great delight in a game with a ball which is played by them in the same manner as the Cree, Chippewa and Sioux Indians.
When I discovered the rôle which the cocaine played, I determined to try the suggestive influence, the more as I found that he was in a half-hypnotic state as soon as he had entered my room. I suggested to him to sleep and to take food and to reduce the cocaine dose by a fourth. The next day he was an entirely different man by the effect of ten hours' sleep and a large breakfast.
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