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"Our duty, Fraulein," he said awkwardly. "We are but obeying orders. A mere formality. It will all be explained, no doubt, if the householder, Antoine Sebastian, will put on his hat and come with us." "His hat is not there, as you see," answered Desiree. "You must seek him elsewhere." The man shook his head with a knowing smile. "We must seek him in this house," he said.
But though Sebastian liked to breathe, so nearly, the sea and its influences, those were considerations he scarcely entertained.
"Yes, perhaps it is," assented Josephine, who would have answered, "Yes, perhaps it is," to anything else that her lover might have said. "Where is Leam, my little Fina? Do you know?" asked Sebastian of the child. "In the garden. She is coming in," answered Fina; and at the word Leam passed before the window as Fina had done.
"Alas! have twenty years so changed me," cried the stranger, "that you cannot recognise in me your missing king, Sebastian?"
So Sebastian made her go into the library for the dictionary and hunt up the word through all its derivations, and thus proved to her incontestably that she was ignorant of the English language and of human nature in about equal proportions. It was soon remarked at the post-office that no letter addressed to Miss Dundas ever left North Aston, and that none came to Mr.
Murdock, that gentleman entered, familiar and cheerful. The man who came in was, in his way, a force almost as great and as worthy of regard as Mr. Sebastian Early himself in fact no less a personage than the power behind the throne of that uncrowned king, William Barry.
There was jealousy, bitterness, wrath and fear Among these reverend brethren here, With their leather and parchment and metal and stone, And the seeds of dissension were freely sown Only Sebastian, Gildas and John In their work appointed went placidly on.
This is the case in the scene between Hector and Troilus, in that between Antony and Ventidius, and in that between Sebastian and Dorax. Nothing of the same kind in Shakspeare is equal to them, except the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, which is worth them all three. Some years before his death, Dryden altogether ceased to write for the stage.
When the British Legion, under Sir de Lacy Evans, was attacking the Carlists in the bay of St Sebastian, she stood in towards the Carlist flank and thereupon fired the first shot that any steam man-of-war had ever fired in action. Strangely enough, she cannot be said to have come to any definite end as an individual ship.
And his look searched my thoughts with the keenness of a dagger. “Why do you speak of the Antarctic seas?” he asked, taking my hand. “Well, just as I might have spoken of the ‘Hyperborean seas’ from whence an Irish poet has made Sebastian Cabot address some lovely verses to his Lady. I spoke of the South Pole as I might have spoken of the North.”
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