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There was no answer; but such a blanched face, such wild, distended eyes, such trembling limbs, instinctively seeking support! "Did you know Mr. Carson as now lies dead?" continued the merciless woman. "Folk say you did, and knew him but too well. And that for the sake of such as you, my precious child shot yon chap. But he did not. I know he did not.
You ought to go to the Louvre, Aurilly." "I did think of it, monseigneur, but I feared that this was only a tale invented to satisfy my messenger, and that the prince was seeking pleasure elsewhere, and might be annoyed at my seeking him." "Oh, no; the duke has too much sense to be pleasure-seeking on a day like this. Go to the Louvre; you will be sure to find him there."
"One morning as we skirted a mountain range, seeking a practicable pass, we were attacked by a band of Apaches who had followed our trail up a gulch it is not far from here. Knowing that they outnumbered us ten to one, they took none of their usual cowardly precautions, but dashed upon us at a gallop, firing and yelling.
Those who have attained to any degree of perfection in either of the above characters, have been distinguished as eminent Orators: but the question is whether any of them have compassed what we are seeking after, and succeeded equally in all.
'And to think that men are still seeking scrolls in Turkestan to prove The sentence did not finish itself in his mind; a ray of western light falling across the altar steps in the stillness of the church awakened a remembrance in him of the music that Nora's hands drew from the harmonium, and, leaning against the Communion-rails, he allowed the music to absorb him.
They would then be very like other words which the betrayer had heard but an hour or two before, 'That thou doest, do quickly. But such a rendering does not seem so appropriate to the circumstances as that which makes them a question, smiting on his heart and conscience, and seeking to tear away the veil of sophistications with which he had draped from his own eyes the hideous shape of his crime.
It was far more probable that he had a fireproof safe in the room upstairs, perhaps built into the wall. Yet, according to Poland's account, it was in this room and not in any other that death came to Diamond Fred. The wall-hangings first engaged Durham's attention. He moved them aside systematically, one after another, seeking for any hiding-place, but failing to find one.
"Not only in England," said White, placidly, "but in Cambridge Terrace. And " he paused, seeking a suitable remark among his small selection of conversational remnants "and the fat is in the fire." The cab had now stopped at the door of number ninety-nine.
They make me sick." "What art thou after? What favour art thou seeking?" "Thou knows how the girls will try to outdress each other at this Brodie affair " "It is too late for a new dress what is it thou wants now?" "I want thee to go to the bank and get me my mother's necklace to wear just this one night." "I will not. I gave thy dead mother a promise." "Break it, for a few hours.
Father Hecker visited Geneva several times after that, living in the closest intimacy with our family. He spent several weeks on a visit with my father, Dr. Dufresne, at a chalet situated on Salane mountain above Geneva, being at the time in feeble health and seeking recovery by a prolonged sojourn in Europe.
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