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You thought you were the sole survivor, yet how admirably the rescue of Corkey and the boy abetted your escape, Robert Chalmers. They saw David Lockwin die. They took his dying wishes. Fortunate that he could not mention the deposit at New York! But why is David Lockwin so dear? Why not forget him? Did he play a part that credits him?
Moreover, by no stretch of the imagination could this contract be looked upon as sacred and it certainly would not look pretty if exposed to a court of law. Her sole thought now was to have it all safely over with. Then perhaps she could smile once more. In the home of the bridegroom, preparations for the event were scant and of a perfunctory nature. Mr.
And now my lodging is a palace, royalty my patron; they give me gold at my desire; my wants no longer mar my leisure. Well, and for what? On condition that I forego the sole task for which patronage, wealth, and leisure were desired! There stands the broken iron, and there simmers the ore I am to turn to gold, the iron worth more than all the gold, and the gold never to be won!
Mac-Casquil of Drumquag, who, having gulped down one half of his vexation, determined to give vent to the rest, "I really think this is an extraordinary case! I should like now to know from Mr. Protocol, who, being sole and unlimited trustee, must have been consulted upon this occasion; I should like, I say, to know, how Mrs.
He was still below when I rounded it and entered upon a piece of river which I had some misgivings about. I did not know that he was hiding behind a chimney to see how I would perform. I went gaily along, getting prouder and prouder, for he had never left the boat in my sole charge such a length of time before.
Night and day he never quitted his work but for a few minutes to return to it with redoubled ardor; one sole, absorbing thought occupied his whole soul; the idea that his son, his only son, was with those who were heard from within. In vain he was solicited to retire; in vain they strove to force him from labors too fatiguing for his age.
'Twas an innocent frolic perhaps a mere piece of gallantry. Say, my gentle Arabella, was it not so? ARABELLA. Most certainly! There can be no doubt of it! But does she then feel herself sole mistress of his heart? Does her name lurk in his every thought? meet him in every phase of nature? Can it be? Whither will these thoughts lead me?
Perhaps it is characteristic of the Doctor that, with a hell of revengeful fury seething in his heart, and a legion of devils unloosed and shrieking, prompting him to murder, he should have paused to relieve the tobacco-famine of the sentry, and be moved to a further sacrifice of his sole luxury by the sight of those empty pipes.
Bainton and Nebbie were left sole masters of the rectory and its garden, and both man and dog were depressed in spirits, and more or less restless and discontented.
"And if asked what State he hails from, This our sole reply shall be, From near Appomattox Court-House, And its famous apple tree. "For 'twas there to our Ulysses That Lee gave up the fight; Now, boys, to Grant for President, And God defend the right."
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