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Darke saw that the small force on picket could not contend with the attacking party. By the starlight, I could see his face, as he glared over his shoulder at Mohun, whom he had evidently recognized. An expression of profound hate was in that glance; a hoarse growl issued from his lips; and I distinguished the low words addressed to Swartz, whom he was dragging on beside his horse.
"I can't do anything for you," Mr. Swartz said with a frown. "Dere is scarce a day but some peoples or anoder vants charity and I " "I do not come to ask for charity," she interrupted hastily. "I have only come to ask you a favor." "Vat is it?" he enquired. "As I told you before, my children and myself are nearly starving," she replied.
In Greek Georgy was pronounced aristos, in Latin optimus, in French tres bien, and so forth; and everybody had prizes for everything at the end of the year. Even Mr. Swartz, the wooly-headed young gentleman, and half-brother to the Honourable Mrs. Mac Mull, and Mr.
I was here two days afterward, however asked for Swartz he had not been here and as that was the most unaccountable thing in the world to me, I set out to find him." "In the enemy's lines?" "Yes, colonel. I had no doubt I would come across him somewhere.
Swartz, on the contrary, was the incarnation of phlegmatic coolness. His face wore an expression of entire equanimity; and he seemed to indulge no fears whatever of intruders. All at once, however, I saw his eyes glitter as they fell upon a paper which she handed him to pack away with the rest.
She was a thin, bent old lady with straggly gray hair and a very sharp penetrating voice. Polly felt the lump in her throat growing larger. Was this the jolly pretty Mrs. Jack Morgan that Bob had written about so often? "Dis young voman " began Swartz, heavily. Polly stepped forward. "Mrs. Morgan, this is Bob Street's sister. He has often written us about you and your husband." "Husband?
Wentworth became known, they generally condemned him. As we observed in a former chapter, kindness and benevolence is the general trait of the Germans, and we would not have it supposed that Swartz is a representative of that people. The loss sustained by Mr. Swartz, by the fall of Jackson, was comparatively insignificant, and therefore he has felt no change of fortune.
I do not pretend to judge whether this was right or wrong. Swartz and Bishop Heber conceived that the distinction of caste, however objectionable politically, was still only a distinction of rank; and that, as in English churches the gentlefolks generally take the Sacrament apart from the poor of the parish, so the high-caste natives might be allowed to communicate apart from the Pariahs.
"Ah! you know that!" he said, quickly. "I saw him steal it, through the window, while the woman's back was turned." "I am deeply indebted to you, colonel," said Mr. Nighthawk, gravely, "for informing me of this fact, which, I assure you, is important. Swartz swore to me that he had the paper, and had procured it in that manner, but I doubted seriously whether he was not deceiving me.
Come, signora, your assessors must enter upon their duties." He nodded to Baron Swartz, who stood in the corridor, and said in German, "The signora will dance; she must be received with respect and treated with consideration." He gave a light greeting to Barbarina and returned to the saloon, where he found the last act of the drama just concluded. Every eye was fixed upon the king as he entered.
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