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The butler meditated. "Sharp at four, sir. The maid took the three-forty with the luggage." With the luggage! So it was not a mere one-night visit. The blood rose slowly to Amherst's face. The footmen had disappeared, but presently the door at the back of the hall reopened, and one of them came out, carrying an elaborately-appointed tea-tray toward the smoking-room.
When he returned four days later, he astonished Johnson beyond measure by remarking so soon as the shop project was reopened: "I've took a little contraption at Fishbourne, O' Man, that I fancy suits me better." He paused, and then added in a manner, if possible, even more offhand: "Oh! and I'm going to have a bit of a nuptial over at Stamton with one of the Larkins cousins."
Humphreys' death the War of the Rebellion broke out, and St. John's, unlike the temple of Janus, closed its doors at the rumors of war. The buildings were used as an hospital, and not until 1866 was the college again reopened with the well-known educator, Henry Barnard, at its head.
Since that time it is probable that it has never been reopened, although there is a report that the Sultan Hakim rendered it available for the passage of boats in the year A.D. 1000, after which it was neglected and became choked with sand.
Then he returned to the sitting-room, settled himself again in the porter's chair, and reopened his book at the place where he had been interrupted. It was the New Testament; and just now, while reading the twenty-first chapter of Saint Matthew, he had enjoyed a clear vision of Christ's entry into Jerusalem.
There the élite of all classes were entertained until the death of her husband , when the hôtel was closed; it was not reopened until 1710. Though left with immense wealth, her affairs were in a very complicated state. While actively employed in untangling her difficulties, she at the same time superintended the education of her son and daughter.
Be sure o' your man, aim low, git under his belt, an' be careful to ketch your hind-sight before you pull the trigger. If we need more cartridges we'll have to find more somewhere." From away beyond the green and yellow waves of hills came the crash of the reopened battle. The ripping noise of regiments firing by volley was hoarsely punctuated by the deep boom of the field-pieces.
The Emperor, seeing a fine bust of the marshal, in bisque, exquisitely made, paused, and, not noticing the pallor which overspread the countenance of the duchess, asked her what she thought of this bust, and if it was a good likeness. The widow felt as if her old wound was reopened; she could not reply, and retired, bathed in tears, and it was several days before she reappeared at court.
The devotees of female worship, although for a time silenced, were evidently not convinced, and to force their understanding into conformity with the newly established order, the Nestorians, in the year 430 A. D., reopened the old dispute, and formally denied to Mary the title of Mother of God.
I" She yawned again, showing her small, brilliant teeth "I wonder what sort of people write these immoral romances!" "Probably immoral people," said Sylvia indifferently. "Drop it on the coals, Grace." But Mrs. Ferrall reopened the book where she had laid her finger to mark the place. "Do you think so?" she asked. "Think what?" "That rotten books and plays come from morally rotten people?"
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