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The "Victory" was all the time advancing, the feeble breeze urging her progress, which was helped also by her lurching through the heavy following swell that prevailed. Before Blackwood could leave her, a shot passed through the main-topgallantsail, and the rent proclaimed to the eager eyes of the foes that the ship was fairly under their guns.
"Oh, I do hope so. I want just once to meet him and hear him talk." "Even if his voice has a falsetto crack in it?" Billy inquired. "Even if he's dumb!" Cicely's climax was lost in a burst of laughter, in the midst of which she fled from the table. "Never you mind!" she proclaimed from the doorway. "I'll find a way to meet him yet.
The Hungarian rule, as it became more and more arbitrary and unbearable, irritated men's minds to such a point that the people murmured in secret and the nobles proclaimed aloud their discontent.
The English have proclaimed also, loudly, the same intention on my side. I cannot in conscience appear to justify the malice of these people. If I were to depart, many Frenchmen who are useful here would follow my example. General Washington would feel very unhappy if I were to speak of quitting him; his confidence in me is greater than I dare acknowledge, on account of my youth.
Once or twice only did he interrupt me, with the simple expression "Poor little Lil!" "Poor little Lil!" repeated he when I had finished. "She too gone wi' him! just as Marian went six months ago! "No no!" he exclaimed correcting himself, in a voice that proclaimed the agony of his thoughts. "No! it war different altogether different: Marian went willin'ly." "How know you that?"
He was young, and French, and she was beautiful and he was desperately in love with her. Kneeling suddenly on the damp grass, he buried his face in his arms as they lay limply across the sun-dial. There was a long pause. He did not sob, he was quite still, but every line of him proclaimed unspeakable agony. "Poor boy," she said gently. Then he rose.
Half uttered, it was cut short by a crash of guns, mingled with savage war-whoops, that proclaimed as clearly as words the state of affairs on the opposite side of that narrow neck of land.
Warriors, of course, are not obliged to be artists. I will guard these excellent treasures in Germany where you may see them whenever you wish. We are all going to be one nation, you know. . . . My friend, the Emperor, is soon to be proclaimed sovereign of the French." Desnoyers remained silent.
Then Lichimin was formally proclaimed heir to the throne; but the event sinks into comparative insignificance beside the abdication of the throne by Kaotsou in the same year.
The forefather of these lords was the earl of that great country beyond the Humber; and these in their turn held justly their father's lands, doing wrong to none. Arthur rendered these brothers their own, and restored them their heritage. On Urian, as head of his house, Arthur bestowed the province of Murray, and without fee or recompense proclaimed him king of that realm.
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