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"I didn't know," he said hastily, "that you people " and he stopped suddenly, realizing the ungracious ending to his sentence. "You mean us colored folks, you didn't think we troubled 'bout such things? Yas, sah, we don' have all the advantages o' white folks but we're improvin' right along.
While Franklin spoke, it had crossed Helen's mind that perhaps he had determined to follow her suggestion buy a castle and find a princess to put in it; it had crossed her mind that he might be going to ask her advice on this momentous step she was used to giving advice on such momentous steps; but when he brought out his final sentence she was so astonished that she rose from her chair and stood before him.
Your friend's incognito is scarcely complete enough even in the dark. Why, the man's Born! I could tell it in his first sentence, and it's a swordsman's hand, not a cellarer's fingers, he gave me a moment ago. That itself would betray him even if I did not happen to know that the Montaiglons have the particule."
But even with that terrible sentence ringing in her ears it never entered her head to betray Emily. If this was to be the price of loyalty, then she would pay the price. There was no other way. She had not been clever enough to explain her presence in the electric room to the satisfaction of Mr. Jackson and yet breathe no word of the real situation, and this was the result.
The captive, with much difficulty raising himself to a sitting posture, said, "You are a brave man, and the brave among the whites are always truthful they tell me. I am told that I am to be blown from the cannon's mouth to-morrow. Is this the truth? Is there no hope of pardon or reprieve?" "The sentence of the court has been read to you, and there is no hope of remission.
"Well, a good many of them went on the cross." "You belong to London, I suppose?" "Yes." "Did you get your sentence there?" "No, in Bristol." "How long were you out this last time?" "Six days, and I was half-drunk all the time." "How long was your last sentence?" "Three years, and I did it all." "How did you lose your remission?" "For striking a 'screw."
My heart beat violently a moment, then stood still. "Mabel," she said aloud. It was like the sentence of a judge, that one short word. I tried to push past her and go in, but she stopped me with her arm. She was wholly mistress of herself, I saw. "Hush!" she said in a lower voice. "I've got her round again with brandy. She's sleeping quietly now. We won't disturb her."
You know, I read characters and fortunes. All the women of my race have done so. I can tell you that you had a youth of ease and happiness and one year of terrible life. Then you started again. It is true, is it not?" "Very nearly," he admitted. "I wonder " She never finished her sentence.
The sentence of a dispassionate judge would have inflicted a severe punishment on the authors of the crime; and the merit of Botheric might contribute to exasperate the grief and indignation of his master.
Some day the ages will discern two movements in history: the first, the Christian dispensation, and the second the American. There is a great deal in knowing how to read, especially with such books as history. I try to read as I write; to lash my author, to make him fill my mind. If he gets sluggish I am soon through with him I read whole paragraphs in a sentence, and whole volumes in an hour.
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