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And finding himself within a day's journey of his old home, he lost no time in slipping through the lines to see Alice, whom he had not seen since her return. He went first to her, and the sight of his blue uniform threw Colonel Westmore into a rage. "To march into our land in that thing and claim my daughter " he shouted.
"Some times," he continued, "thinking of the dangers to which his mistress was exposed, if their connection should be discovered, Rancey wished to sever these delicious ties; but the girl, beside herself with passion, threw herself on the neck of her lover, and threatened him, in the language of intense excitement, to reveal and to brave all, if he thought of leaving her.
She threw herself into the lady's arms as if she had found there a haven of refuge from all her storms of anxiety and distress, and burst into a convulsive fit of weeping. The Signora Mansana said nothing, but she soothed the agitated girl with a few gentle and caressing touches of her hand, and stood waiting quietly till her passion had spent itself and she had regained her self-possession.
Then, with his glass of wine before him and his cigar between his lips, he tilted his chair back and looked about him. He sat within a small circle of brilliant light which gleamed upon his silver shoulder-straps, and threw out his terra-cotta face, his heavy eyebrows, and his yellow moustache. But outside that circle things were vague and shadowy in the old dining-hall.
"Bill, old partner," he said wearily, "if anything can be found they can find it. I think you and I had better go back and try to think some way out of this try to see some opening. It looks pretty black." The big fellow took four or five of his long, swinging steps, and threw an arm over the younger man's shoulder.
How can a good counsellor be happy when his master devotes himself to a vice? The next night King Glory-banner threw the burden of government on that excellent counsellor, assumed the dress of a hermit, and left his city.
Notwithstanding their misfortune, Owen and his companions managed to discuss the viands placed before them with tolerable appetites, the two seamen and Pompey especially doing their part. At length Owen threw himself into his cot, and endeavoured to forget his sorrows in sleep. His followers, having secured the trap-door, imitated his example. The next day passed without a visit from O'Harrall.
But that one turned up at King's Island, a hundred and fifty miles off its course." "I guess we could risk it." "All right, let's go." Marian sprang to her feet, threw back the blankets to her couch, and fifteen minutes later was dreaming of a tossing skin-boat on a wild sea of walrus monsters and huge white bears. Her wild dreams did not come true.
He threw himself on the turf at her feet. Now the storm is going to burst, he thought, and it did. "Have you thought at all about our marriage?" she began. "No," he replied, with every appearance of having fully considered the matter, "I have merely felt about it.
He threw his chair back and plunging through the arch ran across the sand and stopped at the top of a narrow street. Men and women of different shades of color came out of the doors and began to talk excitedly, but there was nobody who looked like a fugitive. Kit went back after he got his breath and met two or three untidy, barefooted soldiers who ran past.
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