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The evening train brings two ladies, Valencia and Lucia. At the risk of her life, the poor faithful wife has come. A gentleman's carriage is waiting for them, though they have ordered none; and as they go through the station-room, a plain little well-dressed body comes humbly up to them "Are either of these ladies Mrs. Vavasour?" "Yes! I! I! is he alive?" gasps Lucia.
You must go with me, aunt; will you not? Mrs. Goodman expostulated against such suddenness. 'It will redouble the rumours that are afloat, if, after being supposed ill, you are seen going off by railway perfectly well. 'That's a contingency which I am quite willing to run the risk of. Well, it would be rather sudden, as you say, to go to-night.
But, honest, I always feel kinder toward my fellow-bein's who call me just plain 'Steve." "All right. I'll take your word for it." "Don't you take my word for anything. How do you know but I might be tryin' to sell you a gold mine?" "I think the risk would be about even," said Bartley. The Senator chuckled.
He did not know if Gascoyne was the man he had gone to in Edinburgh, and durst not risk a fresh mistake. Besides, it was possible that there was not such a person among the other's friends and the question was a trap. "No," he said boldly. "I can get all the instructions that are needful when I meet Daly. Give me the letters." "I think not.
The bad effect upon the November election, and especially the giving the State Government to those who will oppose the war in every possible way, are too much to risk if it can be avoided. The draft proceeds, notwithstanding its strong tendency to lose us the State. Indiana is the only important State voting in October whose soldiers cannot vote in the field.
Without replying a single word, he leaped out and fled in the utmost terror, leaving the lady to herself, and preferring rather to return to his infernal abode and render an account of his adventures, than run the risk of any further sufferings and vexations under the matrimonial yoke.
"How was it possible, moreover, to avoid seeing that in this war every thing was to be feared, even our allies? Did not Napoleon hear their discontented kings murmuring that they were only his prefects? When they, all of them, only waited a suitable occasion in order to turn against him, why run the risk of giving that occasion birth?"
A soldier needs to know how to shoot and take cover and shift for himself not to box or to play football. There is, of course, always the risk of thus mistaking means for ends.
He ought to risk his life sooner than the honour of her who has trusted in him; but be assured Albert relied on me." There was nothing to reply to this; and the sentiments expressed by Mademoiselle d'Arlange gave a meaning to one of Albert's replies in the examination.
But the elegant young man was moved by a lure no less potent. And his anxiety, for the time, suppressed the evidences of liquor. "I'll take the risk on the title, Zindorf. You and Ordez were partners in this traffic. Ordez gives you a general assignment of all slaves on hand for three thousand dollars and lights out of the country. He leaves his daughter here among the others.
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