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A small boat which had left the island, had, after a long voyage, the people undergoing great hardships, reached the mainland. They had come in the hopes of obtaining relief for those left behind. As soon as the information was received, a meeting of the inhabitants of Philadelphia was held, and it was resolved to send out a vessel for the rescue of the sufferers.
The populace, incensed, began to pelt them with stones, and though the guard of the tzar came to their rescue, they escaped with difficulty to the palace. The mob was now thoroughly aroused. They rushed to the palace of Moroson, burst down the doors, and sacked every apartment.
"France was our enemy for three hundred years, and yet we are allied by more than ordinary ties." "Our alliance will soon come to naught if we walk in the path to which you would lead us, prince. France will not be dear to the misery of Poland. She will hear the death-cry, and come to the rescue."
Then, suddenly, it seemed to come to us to realize that they were among the weed, and we upon the hilltop, and that we had no means of bridging that which lay between. And at this we faced one another to discuss what we should do to effect the rescue of those within the hulk.
I knew I was in great danger, but at the moment I could only think of my poor pretty mare lamed for life, or even perhaps killed on the spot. I heard one wild shout of warning from above, and I knew the others were galloping to my rescue; but in certainly less than half a minute from the time the boar turned, he had reached me.
Yet where one person read of Shelby's plagiarism, a score devoured the sensational accounts of his rescue of Kiska, while of those who read both, an illogical but human majority considered his atonement complete.
And sir, we say all, that ye have many times rescued her from death for other men's quarrels, us seemeth it is more your worship that ye rescue the queen from this peril, insomuch she hath it for your sake.
Montferrand had come to the street-singer's rescue. The vicomte roared like a wild bull, and, seizing a knife from the table, rushed upon Arthur. The two men struggled with one another. The table fell over; and while Louison unsuccessfully tried to separate the combatants, Velletri looked coolly at the fray. "Help! murder!" cried Louison in desperation. She did not think of escape.
It is not I whom you love, but that Emperor of Austria in whose hand lies the power that may rescue Poland. "I love YOU; but my love is grafted upon the hope I so long have cherished that in you I recognize the savior of my country." "Indeed!" cried the emperor, with a sneer. The countess did not hear him. She continued: "Until I loved you, every throb of my heart belonged to Poland.
"We've had a good deal of rescuing men in the winter, and now we are goin' to rescue horses." "Rescuing is the grandest work that a fellow can undertake," said Dan, "whether it be the body from death or the soul from sin." "What you say iss true whatever," remarked McKay, whose speech, although not so broad as that of his father, was tinged with similar characteristics.
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