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Community was soon alarmed; Severin, arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. It is sufficient for us to say, that the evidence was clear and conclusive, that he was the only murderer of his family; nor was it doubted that Mrs.

Being wide awake in an instant, I had sufficient presence of mind to avoid betraying my whereabouts by a rustling among the hay, and lay and listened, wondering who the intruders might be, and fearing lest they should approach my end of the barn to seek a couch for the remainder of the night.

The duke replied that thirty-seven years of absence was surely a sufficient explanation of his ignorance; but a few held a different opinion and retired, and by their withdrawal somewhat damped the general enthusiasm. But there was a safe and certain method of arriving at the truth.

Good first name the legatee is that right, Sir Reginald?" "Quite right, Sir Gervaise; and Sir Wycherly will understand that he now names the first person to whom he wishes to bequeath any thing else." "Milly," muttered the sick man. "What? Mills! the mills go with the lands, Sir Reginald?" "He means Miss Mildred Dutton," eagerly interposed Wycherly, though with sufficient modesty.

He smiled, his eyes lighting. "I am more than willing you should know all that you would be curious about," he said. "Ask me a hundred questions; I will answer them." She meditated a moment. She never had taken sufficient interest in a man before to desire to fathom him, and the arts of the Californian belle were not those of the tactfully and impartially interested woman of to-day.

She blushed faintly as she did so, for, while attempting to cut from the piece a sufficient quantity, Semestre had snatched the knife from her hand, exclaiming rudely: "Half that is twice too much for the insolent rascal."

Compilations such as the Itinerarium Italiæ of Schottus, published at Antwerp in 1600, and issued in eleven editions during the seventeenth century, had been sufficient for the accomplished traveller of the Renaissance.

It might well have been thought that this sum would be sufficient for these gentlemen to live most comfortably; but this was not the case.

Sufficient provision should be made for a clerical force in every Consulate composed entirely of Americans, instead of the insufficient provision now made, which compels the employment of great numbers of citizens of foreign countries whose services can be obtained for less money.

Some rain fell on the 14th and 15th of October, but it was barely sufficient to refresh the ground.