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Like the painted billows of music that the old Italian masters loved to do, there wound and wreathed about her clouds of song. But I've a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. From Ainslee's Magazine
The habit of obedience and the intimation of some danger to the city, stilled in an instant the rage of party feeling, and combatants and spectators alike hurried away in the direction of St Mark's place, the usual point of rendezvous on such occasions. Jacopo had now recovered his senses, and Antonio's gondola was one of the first which reached the square in front of the cathedral.
Determined at the first blush to face the matter out, to answer and to defy this pauper Pole who had dared to threaten him, he came ultimately to see that discretion would best serve him. Paul Boriskoff had named Kensington Gardens as a rendezvous where matters might be discussed.
Was it necessarily in order to lose her father? Might it not be, on the contrary, in order to save him? When one has rendezvous with an enemy it is not necessarily to enter into his game, sometimes it is to disarm him with an offer.
And Rendezvous has found out he isn't fit. And everybody ought to be fit. That is the beginning and end of life for Rendezvous. Fitness. An almost mineral quality, an insatiable activity of body, great mental simplicity. So he takes possession of poor old Manning and trots him for that fourteen miles at four miles an hour.
M. Pacôme was resolute, and before the interview was over the robber confessed that Cartouche had given him rendezvous at nine next day. In the grey morning thirty soldiers crept forth guided by the traitor, 'en habits de bourgeois et de chasseur, for the house where Cartouche had lain.
Hetzel had already revealed his scheme to Representative Labrousse, who was to accompany him and give him the moral support of the Assembly in his perilous expedition. A first rendezvous which had been agreed upon between them at the Café Cardinal having failed, Labrousse had left with the owner of the café for Hetzel a note couched in these terms:
I hate ancestors." "I shouldn't let you do it," he hesitated, "but ghosts walk after dark in the Capitol corridors." "I know," she nodded. "Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln." "Yes. Then you'll come?" "Of course." It was the thought of her rendezvous with him that lighted her eyes when she talked to Murray. But Murray did not know.
"About an hour after we picked you and Lyad up," he said, "we had a Council Order transmitted to the ship. Told us to swing off course a bit and rendezvous with a fast courier boat of theirs." "What for?" "The order said the courier was to take Lyad on board and head for the Hub with her. Some diplomatic business." He scratched his chin.
But she still hopes it will be in this month, that she may lose no reputation in point of prevoyance, which would be a pity. It is not an unnatural thing, with our German family, to make a rendezvous as to death, and it has in more instances than one been kept. But her R. H. is firm and resigned, and, as Dr. Warren says, declares herself ready.
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