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"I give two sous!" said Skeleton; and he threw his penny toward Pique-Vinaigre. "Shall the gang be stingy for such an entertainment?" he added, looking at his accomplices with a significant air. Several sous were thrown, from one side and the other, to the great joy of Pique-Vinaigre, who thought of his sister as he made his collection.
He is the most outspoken of all the fourteenth century critics of the Roman curia, and has more insight than most of his contemporaries. The following are of primary importance for the early years of Edward III.; it is significant that they are nearly all secular, not monastic, in origin. Continuatio Chronicorum, 1303-1347, by ADAM MURIMUTH, a canon of St.
She gave her head a significant toss, as if she knew more about the report than she chose to confess. Mr. Query begged of her to explain herself. "Oh, I sha'n't say anything," exclaimed Mrs. Mason; "I've no ill will against Dr. Harvey, and I'd rather cut off my right hand than injure him." "But is the report true?" "True, Mr. Query? Do you suppose I ever saw Dr. Harvey drunk?
They, however, now seemed suddenly to lose all interest in the recital going on, and, after exchanging uneasy and significant glances, simultaneously rose to depart. "You are my prisoners, gentlemen," said Woodburn, stepping before them and presenting a cocked pistol.
"Well, General, are you going to shut up the churches?" "No, Sir, I am more likely to shut up the ministers," he replied. To the casual observer this would appear but a brilliant repartee, while, in fact, it was significant as indicative of a sagacious policy. Closing the churches would have given warrant to the charge of interference with the observances of religion.
"The lieutenant has no such orders to give you, and he shall be placed under arrest, instead of you, if he has really commanded you to burn this gentleman." "He did not command that, general; he commanded us to bring him to the camp; but the count was not willing to follow us." "I was not willing that they should enter and plunder my house," said Athos to Monk, with a significant look.
But as the Lord is always just in His recompenses, He willed that the most touching work of gratitude you could show to your adopted mother, should at the same time be divinely profitable by making you one of the militant members of our holy Church." At these words, Gabriel could not repress a significant start, as he remembered Frances' sad confidences.
"And now," she said in a significant tone and with a glance full of meaning, "now I suppose you young people have lots to talk about, and will forgive me if I run away." And the silken draperies swept themselves across the floor and the door closed softly upon her Grace.
He liked to watch the quick glancing, the clear gazing, of her eyes; everything she looked at became at once more significant to him the tangle of tenacious roots that thrust through the greensand soil of the lane they entered, the suave, gray columns of the beeches above, the blurred mauves and russets of the woods, the swift, awkward flight of a pheasant that crossed their way with a creaking whir of wings, the amethyst stars of a bush of Michaelmas daisies, showing over a whitewashed cottage wall, the far blue distance before them, framed in the tracery of the beech-boughs.
"Of course the story of the overseer's abduction spread like wild-fire, and I know it must have reached the village, for the very next afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Shelby rode out to visit me; and that is something they have not done before since these troubles began." "Aha!" said Marcy, in a significant tone.
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