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Then the wheels began to revolve again, and the white tape, our modern thread of the Norns, sped through the twitching fingers of the young chap to whom Indiman had yielded place. "Five hundred Pan. com., 68," he read out. "One thousand, 67 1/2; four hundred, 67; two thousand, 65. I guess I've seen enough, gentlemen; it's my my finish."
How the night sped after our return from the forest and the morning next after the 27th of July in the year of our Lord 1422 I can no longer call to mind; but I can see myself now as, the afternoon of that day, I set forth with Ann, attired in silk and lace all white and new from head to foot, as it were for a wedding to go to the open place between St.
She's calling for you now." Kennedy stared from the orderly to Seward Blair, startled, speechless. "What has happened?" asked Blair anxiously. "I am Mr. Blair." The orderly shook his head. He had delivered his message. That was all he knew. "What do you suppose it is?" I asked, as we sped across town in a taxicab. "Is it the curse that she dreaded?"
At the foot of Breed's Hill in Charlestown an American had been born into the world, by the might of whose genius that fateful name was sped to the uttermost parts of the nation. Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States. And the moan of the storm gathering in the South grew suddenly loud and louder.
He recovered his cast and began to look for his victim. Without avail he searched the heather, and as the fateful seconds sped, at last laid down his rod and dropped on hands and knees to probe among the grass-stems. For a while he hunted in vain, then the sunlight showed a golden sheen among some stones.
Seizing it, I bounded out of the room and down the stairs, three steps at a stride. Along the corridor I sped and into the common-room, which at the moment was tolerably full. As I entered by one door, the Marquis was within three paces of the other, leading to the courtyard.
Motte, the beggar, took up the words and sped like the wind up the narrow side streets and lanes, shouting, "To the execution!" Wife Gougeon screamed it. Even her husband opened his malign jaws from time to time and automatically gave vent to a harsh shout. Thus sown, it became a cry springing up everywhere. The whole quarter of St.
Much she thought of the wood-mother, and loved her, and wondered had she yet sought into and seen her welfare by the burning of a hair of that tress of hers; and therewith she looked on that tress of Habundia's hair and kissed it. All day the Sending Boat sped on, and she saw no land and nought to tell of.
Mounting the royal dais, he lifted his robes, bowed his back and masked his breathing till it seemed to stop. Coming down, his face relaxed below the first step, and bore a pleased look. From the foot of the steps he sped forward, his elbows spread like wings; and when again in his seat, he looked intent as before. He held his hands not higher than in bowing, nor lower than in giving a present.
"That is Madame Kárpáthy!" cried Flora in alarm; and she whipped up her horse in the hope of overtaking her friend. The lady was galloping helter-skelter across the plain. Every one fancied that her stallion had run away with her. Flora, old Palko, Mike Kis, and Count Gregory vainly sped after her; they could not get near her: only Rudolf was beginning to catch her up.
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