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You lay asleep, and in some troubled dream spoke of the paper, safe in its writer's keeping, and your strange treasure here, the key of which you guarded day and night. I divined the truth. Remembering Hester's stories, I took the key from your helpless hand, found the paper on Sir Richard's dead breast, and now demand that you confess your part in this tragedy." "I do, I do!
The man whom we have seen go down would have been safe if he had to fight no battle but one he could face with all his true friends, and in the open light of day.
During the recital Ranulph had drawn near. He watched the enthusiasm with which the crowd received every little detail of the egregious history. Everybody believed the old man, who was safe, no matter what happened to himself, Ranulph Delagarde, ex-artilleryman, ship-builder and son of a criminal. At any rate the worst was over now, the first public statement of the lifelong lie.
He had heard the little Nibelung men who came to the smithy to talk with Mimer, he had heard them say that whoever should bathe in the blood of Regin the dragon would henceforth be safe from every foe. For his skin would grow so tough and horny that it would be to him as an armour through which no sword or spear could ever pierce.
"Only enough to daze him till he be safe in our quarters and for that the sooner the better. Here, call Anton to take his heels. We'll get him forth now as a fellow of our own." "Hark! What's that?" "Gentlemen," said the host hurrying in, "here be some of the gentlemen of the English Cardinal, calling for a nephew of one of them, who they say is in this house."
They wouldn't let me be that." "He means you'll be safe, dear. You won't be fired out whatever happens." "Whatever sort of secretary I am?" "Yes. She can be any sort she likes, in reason, can't she?" "She can't be a worse one than I was, anyhow."
What George wanted now was to be away from all the gay glitter and the fairylike tout ensemble and the galaxy of fair women and brave men, safe in his own easy-chair, where nothing could happen to him.
But still you cannot know Lilian as I do. Your nature and hers are in strong contrast. I do not think she is a safe wife for you.
Such a question is almost too dreadful, and, though I have asked it, I will not attempt to answer it. I would much rather consider the question whether, if the newspapers can make an author, they can also unmake him, and I feel pretty safe in saying that I do not think they can.
Where a cliff stood up precipitous or overhanging, and in its face gaped caverns, those who sought refuge in time of danger naturally looked to them, and contrived means of reaching them, therein to ensconce their goods and secure their persons. They might have to contemplate the devastation of their fields, and their farms burning, from their eyries, but they knew that their persons were safe.
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