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He avoided the lawyer's searching glance, shrugged his shoulders and smiled coldly. "I am not engaged to her," he said, doggedly; "as far as I know she is free to to choose for herself." "Ah!" Bates slowly released his chin and caught his breath. Westerfelt could have struck out the light that sprang into his eyes.
However, he had not long to wait. The runners took their places, and the starter raised his pistol in the air. "Get set!" he called, and amid a breathless silence the racers crouched over, their fingers barely touching the ground. Crack! went the pistol, and amid a roar from the spectators the five athletes sprang ahead as though released from a catapult.
Let me return home." Thus thought Gangazara within himself, and very soon he was on his way back to his country. Remembering the prophecy of his father he returned by the same way by which he went to Benares ten years before. While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he had released the three brute kings and the gold smith.
All the brawny Germans and Africans whom the young master had released from the slave-prison, and had since treated with kindness, listened with no unfavourable ear to the proposal which Titus Mamercus more valorous than discreet was laying before them: to arm and attack Lentulus in his own villa, and so avenge their lord in a summary fashion.
Greene, released from the immediate pressure of his pursuers, continued his march northward and on the 7th of February joined his division under Huger and Williams near Guilford Courthouse.
On this account I feel always, on a Saturday night, as though I also were released from some yoke of labour, had some wages to receive, and some luxury of repose to enjoy.
And the Blues dispersed, leaving poor Jack to his own bitter reflections. He had learned one thing who his friends were. On being released, he shunned Harris and Ellis especially, for a day or two, and paid his court to Frank. "I am going to tell you something, Frank," said he, as they were once at the pond-side, washing their plates after dinner. "I'm going to leave the company."
Conversely it is clear, that if, at the outset, the owner began an action on the loan against the borrower, not knowing that the property had been stolen, and subsequently, on learning this, proceeded against the thief instead, the borrower is absolutely released from liability, whatever may be the result of the owner's action against the thief; the rule being the same, whether the borrower be wholly or only partially insolvent.
Husbands was released, at about the first of January, 1795. Washington was so impressed with the sense of danger to be apprehended by the Democratic Societies, that he contemplated making them a topic in his forthcoming annual message to Congress.
His hand reached over the railing and one of hers fell into it. For a moment it lay hidden there, warm and tremulous. Then his fingers released it and it fled to join its fellow at her breast. "Good night dear," he said again. "Remember!" Then he dropped from the step. There was a long piercing wail of the whistle that was smothered as the engine entered the snow-shed.
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