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My latest news of you is five months old, and though I have not the slightest expectation that I shall hear from you, I go up to the roof to look out for the "Rolling Moses" with more impatience and anxiety than those whose business journeys are being delayed by her non-arrival.
"You do me wrong, beautiful lady," answered the Caesar, "and forget that I can in no shape be termed the moving-spring of this empire; that my father-in-law, Alexius, is the Emperor; and that the woman who terms herself my wife, is jealous as a fiend can be of my slightest motion.-What possibility was there that I should work the captivity of your husband and your own?
Not the slightest artificial depression was there; he had lost the trail of the party. As it was utterly out of the question to learn how far he had diverged from the path, it was also beyond his power to return to it that is, so long as the night lasted.
Menelaws began to come again about the house; and as an old love, when the impediments are removed, is soon rekindled again, he and Annie became even all that which they had once been to each other. The old vows were repeated without the slightest reference being made by either party to the cause which had interfered to prevent them from having been fulfilled.
To this I answer, that I see no reason to doubt that the parties to the cession were as willing to leave this as to leave other powers to the discretion of Congress. I see not the slightest evidence of any especial fear, or any especial care or concern, on the part of the ceding States, in regard to this particular part of the jurisdiction ceded to Congress.
"You have done it," exclaimed all the guests, "you alone are capable of such an abomination; it is just like you. No one but you would have dared to do such a thing!" "I am compelled," said the archpriest, "to draw up an official report." "As you please, I have not the slightest objection," I answered, "I have nothing to fear." And I left the room.
"I trust you will have no occasion, Miss Denham, to be anything but amiable, and that you will begin by granting me a favor. Will you?" "Cela depend." "There you go into French! I haven't offended you?" "Oh, no. What is the favor? in English." "That you will let me call you Miss Ruth, instead of Miss Denham." "I haven't the slightest objection, Mr. Lynde." "And now I want you"
As long as they remained on the banks of this river bed a glimmering of hope remained; but I felt convinced from the general appearance of the country that there was not the slightest probability of our finding water there, and resolved therefore still to continue a direct route.
"I think you have spoken to me very kindly; I should like to have been able to oblige you." "And you won't?" Kathleen shook her head again. The next moment she had left the room. The school was nearly over; but whether it had been or not, Kathleen had not the slightest idea of returning to her class-room.
"Your aunt tells me that Colonel Fosbrook wants to marry you." "He has mentioned the fact continually," Jane assented. "Colonel Fosbrook is a very pleasant person who does not appeal to me in the slightest as a husband." "The Fosbrooks are one of our oldest families," the Duchess said severely. "Arnold Fosbrook is very wealthy and the connection would be most desirable.
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