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The doctor would have conducted him out of the apartment; but, recovering from this first agony, he turned again to view her, and casting up his eyes, fervently ejaculated, "Oh merciful powers! Take, or destroy her! let her not linger thus, rather let me lose her for ever! O far rather would I see her dead, glad in this dreadful condition!"
Instantly recovering her self-possession, she readjusted her veil, gave a gentle but graceful inclination of the head toward Alessandro, mounted her mule by the assistance of the slaves, and rode away at a somewhat hasty pace.
This is, indeed, so true that he has introduced into his work all the ideas on which he had based an early unfinished poem called 'Genesis. He carries us to an enchanted garden, the Paradou a name which one need hardly say is Provencal for Paradise* and there Serge Mouret, on recovering from brain fever, becomes, as it were, a new Adam by the side of a new Eve, the fair and winsome Albine.
"Mademoiselle Stangerson is much better and is rapidly recovering from her wounds. The marriage is simply delayed, is it not, Monsieur?" insisted the Chief of the Surete. "I hope so. "What! Is there any doubt about that?" Monsieur Stangerson did not answer. Monsieur Robert Darzac seemed agitated. I saw that his hand trembled as it fingered his watchchain.
When the same little Puddock, about a year ago, had that ugly attack of pleurisy, and was so low and so long about recovering, and so puny and fastidious in appetite, she treated him as kindly as if he were her own son, in the matter of jellies, strong soups, and curious light wines, and had afterwards lent him some good books which the little lieutenant had read through, like a man of honour as he was.
Almost simultaneously with the shock which the sight of the well-known number on the soldiers' knapsacks gave him, arose in his mind the romantic, ideal thought, of enlisting in the ranks of this same regiment, and recovering, as a private soldier and unknown, that honour which as officer he had lost.
The maid explained that all was ready. Jones the butler had been sent with a note to the City, and the housemaid was sitting with the kitchen-maid, who was recovering from the flu. "I told them I'd answer the bell. And I'll keep an eye that no one comes down before he's gone. There he is!" For the bell had rung, and the maid hastened to the hall door to answer it. A tall man entered coughing.
"But you'll have me off the ledge here if you don't mind." "Yes, and then you'll tell no tales," growled the man, in a hoarse whisper, for he was recovering his breath. "What about?" said Aleck, uneasily, for the man's manner was terrible in its intensity. "What about?" snarled Eben. "Yes; I don't understand you. I say, Eben, have you escaped?"
From a pilot picked up by the buccaneers, Morgan learned that in the flagship was a great quantity of plate to the value of 40,000 pieces of eight. Of this he succeeded in recovering about half, much of it melted by the force of the heat.
Taking up his hat, therefore, he rose to make his adieus. "What? Are you departing already?" said Manilov, suddenly recovering himself, and experiencing a sense of misgiving. At that moment his wife sailed into the room. "Is Paul Ivanovitch leaving us so soon, dearest Lizanka?" she said with an air of regret. "Yes. Surely it must be that we have wearied him?" her spouse replied.
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