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Caveton? asks a young lady who, truth to tell, is rather smitten with the throwing-off young gentleman. 'Never, he replies, bending over the object of admiration, 'never but in your eyes. 'Oh, Mr. Caveton, cries the young lady, blushing of course. 'Indeed I speak the truth, replies the throwing-off young gentleman, 'I never saw any approach to them.
And he was armed with a mace of China steel, so heavy, so potent, that had he smitten a hill he had smashed it. Now when he charged, Gharib met him like a hungry lion, and the brigand aimed a blow at his head with his mace; but he evaded it and it smote the earth and sank therein half a cubit deep.
However, I am too easy, there is no doubt of that, being very quick to forgive a man, and very slow to suspect, unless he hath once lied to me. So young Squire Marwood came again, as though I had never smitten him, and spoke of it in as light a way as if we were still at school together.
Thus I clung to her, in the abandonment of despair, while words rushed unhidden from my lips. "Oh, my Gabriella, my child, my poor smitten lamb!" she cried, and I felt her heart fluttering against mine like a dying bird. "Sorrow has bereft you of reason, you know not what you say. Gabriella, it is an awful thing to resist the Almighty God. Submission is the heritage of dust and ashes.
Say, man, whut you standin' there in that thah shade fer? We got to go! We got to git home! Come right along this minute, er we may be too late." And so, smitten by this sudden thought, they gathered themselves together as best they might and started toward the railroad for their return. Even as they did so there appeared upon the northern horizon a wreath of smoke rising above the forest.
'A lieutenant in the Corsican battalion. 'A soldier of the usurper, then? 'A soldier of the French army. 'Well, replied he, 'he has smitten with the sword, and he has perished by the sword. 'You are mistaken, monsieur, I replied; 'he has perished by the poniard. 'What do you want me to do? asked the magistrate.
But an extraordinary event deeply disturbed the boy's peace of mind for the first time. On the 1st of November, 1755, the earthquake at Lisbon took place, and spread a prodigious alarm over the world, long accustomed to peace and quiet. A great and magnificent capital, which was at the same time a trading and mercantile city, is smitten without warning by a most fearful calamity.
Barney, too, was smitten with an intense desire to visit the diamond mines, which he fancied must be the most brilliant and beautiful sight in the whole world; and when Martin asked him what sort of place he expected to see, he used to say that he "pictur'd in his mind a great many deep and lofty caverns, windin' in an' out an' round about, with the sides and the floors and the ceilin's all of a blaze with glittering di'monds, an' top'zes, an' purls, an' what not; with Naiggurs be the dozen picking them up in handfuls.
"At a time of disaster and of death, such as has smitten the colony what hellish villainy!" He said no more, but in his eyes burned the fire that meant death, instant and without reprieve. First he looked to his automatic; but, alas, not one cartridge remained either in its magazine or in the pouches of his belt.
Indeed, in a way, it was unearthly. My senses were smitten, it pulled at my heart-strings, and yet its unutterable strangeness seemed to awake memories within me, though of what I could not tell. A wild fancy came to me that I must have known this heavenly creature in some past life.
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