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"Climb up," said he to Dantes. The young man obeyed, mounted on the table, and, divining the wishes of his companion, placed his back securely against the wall and held out both hands.
'I am convinced, said Waverley, bowing,'that if Colonel Talbot chooses to grant his parole, it may be securely depended upon; but if he refuses it, I trust your Royal Highness will devolve on some other person than the nephew of his friend the task of laying him under the necessary restraint.
Not because she believed it, but because she longed to, and sometimes she did believe it, just for a little while, as she looked from Patricia's Arbor across to that bit of sunny road. Since the adventure of the Arden Foresters the cellar windows of the Gilpin house had been securely fastened, and its bolts and bars made proof against more experienced house breakers than they.
He fastened the door securely, but, as he left the window open, currents of fresh cool air poured into the room. He was now fully revived in both mind and body, and he took present ease and comfort, thinking but little of the future. The flurries of rain melted into a steady pour. The cold deepened, and as he wrapped the two blankets around him his sense of comfort increased.
"I will drive back with you, please, sir, if you have room for me. I didn't know Mrs. Ashford was ill," said the girl, humbly following him, as he turned towards the trap. He lifted her up, and fastened her in securely. All this time Mr. Harker had taken no notice of the little episode, save to wonder slightly at the delay.
Increases in prices of the goods we sell abroad threaten to drive us out of markets that once were securely ours. Whether domestic prices, so high as to be noncompetitive, result from demands for too-high profit margins or from increased labor costs that outrun growth in productivity, the final result is seriously damaging to the nation.
Let them tear my heart out; but let them respect my father . . ." Some one outside called me in a violent voice. "Where is the coward? Where is that wretched boy?" shouted my Uncle Laurence. Then he shook the door; but I had fastened it so securely that it resisted all his furious blows. "That miserable cur is amusing himself by making love while our throats are being cut!
Hitherto the state had been held securely by certain political gentlemen, who in turn had been held securely by a certain other and greater political gentleman Lafe Siggins. Other non-political gentlemen who represented money and business had seen, as Scattergood did, the necessity for becoming political, and had chosen their moment to endeavor to take the state away from Messrs.
"Now what do you know about that!" She looked at James as if he should have an answer, and he said: "I'm sure, Miss Doane, I don't know anything about it at all." Drusilla looked down at the baby in the basket, and again at the letter, not knowing what to do; but, the little wail again rising, she reached down to take the baby into her arms, and found it securely pinned into the basket.
The king had commanded her to hide her head so securely that no one might know her shame, or the levity of the prince. "Go! and let me never see you again!" Did not this mean that the king would remove her so far that there would not be a possible chance to appear again before him? Was there not hidden in these words a menace, a warning?