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Mlle. d' Armilly also said nothing in reference to the reappearance of Danglars, but it was very clear to the observant Zuleika that she expected and dreaded further harm from Monte-Cristo's revengeful enemy. At night she locked herself in her chamber, and, notwithstanding the almost unbearable heat of the weather, securely closed and fastened all her windows.

The little town, with its narrow thoroughfares and towering houses, was as gloomy as a city of the dead; foul odours rose on all sides, and would have been unbearable but for the cool breeze which swept in from the Channel, driving the mists and fog before it. In one of the highest and most substantial houses two young women sat at the casement of an upper window.

I had been snatched from the jaws of death, my life was before me, but the happiness which had thrilled me was gone, and in my weakness the weight of the sadness which had come upon me was almost unbearable. If I had had the strength, I would have risen then and there from my bed, I would have fled from the city at the first opportunity.

The insolence of some customers was always trying to the sensitive, high-spirited girl, but today it seemed unbearable. Her head throbbed fiercely with the pain of the ever-increasing ache, and what was the lady on her right saying to a friend? "Yes, she had typhoid, you know a very bad form. She rallied from it, but she was so exhausted that she couldn't really recover, and the doctor said "

The room should be four cubits square, so that he should be forced to disobey the Ban and be within four cubits of thee." "Thou forgettest to reckon with the mathematics," laughed Spinoza. "We should fly to opposite ends of the diagonal and achieve five and two third cubits of separation." "Ah, fuzzle me not with thy square roots. I was never a calculator." "But Moses Zacut was not so unbearable.

Aleck, at the wheel, his master's orders in his willing ears from time to time, gradually accelerated his rate of speed until by the end of the first two hours he was carrying his party along at a pace which Mrs. King had frequently condemned as one which would be to her unbearable.

Was she really married? Cotoner saw Josephina making her way across the room, looking impatiently among the shoulders of the guests, her face tinged with a hectic flush. His instinct of a master of ceremonies warned him that danger was at hand. "Take my arm, Josephina. Let's go outside for a breath of fresh air. This is unbearable."

The surface has not a general ruddy tinge, as we most of us thought it had, only here and there blood-red patches appear, mottling the vivid blue surface. September 11th. My "journal" is a blank for three whole days, owing to the intense heat, which is simply unbearable.

Such a life as that of the parish priest would have been to Wesley himself simply unbearable. He was of opinion surely a most erroneous opinion that if he were confined to one spot he should preach himself and his whole congregation to sleep in a twelvemonth. He never estimated at its proper value the real, solid work which others were doing in their respective parishes.

Again, as on the other evenings, they were embarrassed. After a time the boy tried again to talk. "I suppose it won't be for a year or two but I've been thinking about it," he said, rising and going toward the door. "Something father said makes it sure that I shall have to go away." He fumbled with the doorknob. In the room the silence became unbearable to the woman.