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I exclaimed. "You would be a lady of some position in society." "A lady O!" she exclaimed, and flirted her foot again. "I beg you won't do that!" said I, wiping my face. "But I like to, Peregrine." "Why, pray?" "Because you are such oh, such a Peregrine!" "That sounds ridiculous, Diana!" "But means a lot, Peregrine.
He fairly leaped through the air, and once more a new impulse was communicated to the line. The way now became rougher, leading over stony hills, but there was no slackening of speed, the line remaining as even and regular as the links of a chain, Timmendiquas from his position in seventh place looking now and then with admiration over the heads of the men in front of him at the captive.
"Show me the position of your headquarters on the map.... Oh, we have our advanced headquarters not three hundred yards from you, and you will find the 2nd headquarters near there too.... I'm sorry we didn't let you know last night. But none of our despatch-riders could find you."
Whilst endeavouring to procure some of them, I was placed in a sufficiently awkward position, running the risk of becoming myself a fresh meal instead of procuring one.
England however is in a different position. What the people of that small island have done during the last five hundred years has shaped the course of history in every corner of the world. Without a proper knowledge of the background of English history, you cannot understand what you read in the newspapers.
Such was the position of English lexicography in the middle of the nineteenth century, when the late Dr.
He approached the spot, with a delicacy that was rather increased than diminished by the claim she had perhaps given him to intrude on her private moments; but the sounds of her soft voice, which was offering up prayers, in which he heard himself named by the dearest of all appellations, overcame his scruples, and induced him to take a position where he might listen without the fear of detection.
"As Signor Fantoccini, or as Mr. Comstalk?" "I have long since resigned my position in the museum; it was too exciting." She made no rejoinder; and for some time there was no sound but the music of the bells. Finally we drew up under the colonial portè-cochere of Hollywood Inn and were welcomed by the genial Moriarty himself, his Celtic countenance a mirror of smiles.
Hence his precipitation to get within reach of it, in order to extricate himself from so critical a position.
Forty years before, he was lord of the New World, lord of the seas, lord of Spain, of half Italy, of the Netherlands, and seemed destined to be lord of England, almost of Europe. Elizabeth and Cecil had seen where lay the weakness of his position; they had evaded, cajoled, finally had defied and triumphed over him.
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