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Neither boats, letters, supplies, nor any intelligence of friends or the civilized world! We had long since been given up as dead by the inhabitants of Khartoum, and by all those who understood the difficulties and dangers of the country. We were told that some people had suggested that we might possibly have gone to Zanzibar, but the general opinion was that we had all been killed.
What a busy pair they must have been! What patterns of ubiquitous industry! When the Jews quitted Egypt soon after they mustered six hundred thousand men, besides women and children. Now, supposing all these were collected together in one city, its size would equal that of London. How could two midwives possibly attend to all the confinements among such a population?
For it did not occur to her that Helen was speaking of Monsieur D'Arblet's parcel; that did not in the least convey the idea of letters to her mind; nor had it ever entered into her head to speculate about what that unhappy little packet could possibly contain; she had never even thought about it. "I have no letters of yours," she repeated. "You are saying what is false," cried Helen, angrily.
I want cheese-straws, and I shall sit here till I get them or till the whole of London zigzags round me." "I say," said Peter to their waitress, "if you possibly can, fetch us cheese-straws now. Not too many, but quickly. Can you? The lady won't go without them, and something must be done." "Wouldn't the management wait if you telephoned, Peter dear?" inquired Julie sarcastically.
"You can't take steps to prevent anything Morgana Royal decides to do!" declared his companion. "She's a law to herself and to nobody else. I guess YOU couldn't stop her, Mr. Sam Gwent!" Mr. Sam Gwent permitted himself to smile. It was a smile that merely stretched the corners of his mouth a little, it had no geniality. "Possibly not!" he answered "But I should have had a try!
Rame Church, dating from the thirteenth century, is about a mile inland; it occupies the site of a still earlier building. It was here that Drake and Howard first confronted the Armada, after the memorable but possibly fabulous game of bowls. Whether the Spaniards intended making for Plymouth or no is not quite certain; but it is certain that the Englishmen intended to prevent them.
Should he now give up all hope of it, and make a marriage of reason and of obligingness, such as his marriage with Miss Flaxman would assuredly be? Thank Heaven! as her tutor he could not possibly propose to her till she had got through the Schools, so there were more than six months in which to consider the question.
Even if these young women she had no grounds for believing the one out in the garden to be really Lady Caroline Dester, she had merely been told she was even if these young women should all turn out to be what Browning used to call how well she remembered his amusing and delightful way of putting things Fly-by-Nights, what could it possibly, or in any way matter to her?
But here and at Dundee we must make a stand, and all yesterday and this morning we have thought only of one question: Will they venture to come on? They have numbers on their side an advantage certainly of three to one, possibly more.
"Possibly there was some error in transmitting signals on board," suggested Mr. Alcando. And later they learned that this was, indeed, the case; or at least that was the reason assigned by the Brazilian commander for the accident. His vessel got beyond control. "Well, it's lucky she didn't ram the gates, and let out a flood of water," said Joe to Blake a little after the occurrence.
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