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Each one doubtless could have unfolded a cruel tragedy. Infernal tortures followed in the train of most of them, and they drew after them faithless men, broken vows, and pleasures atoned for in wretchedness. Polite advances were made by the guests, and conversations began, as varied in character as the speakers. They broke up into groups.

Still there was no response. The king unfolded the paper. "Thousand devils!" cried Salcede, "if they have deceived me! Yet it was she it was really she!" No sooner had the king read the first lines, than he called out indignantly, "Oh! the wretch!" "What is it, my son?" "He retracts all he pretends that he confessed nothing; and he declares that the Guises are innocent of any plot!"

Of a sudden the sky was hung with banners banners that rippled and folded and unfolded, banners of rainbows, long, shaking loops of red and silver, ghosts of lost emeralds and sapphires, oriflammes that fluttered in the heavens, swaying across the world in mysterious majesty. Immensity, Silence, Mystery The Northern Lights! "Aurora!" he called into the night, "Aurora Borealis!"

Garner into the recess of the bay-window, while Doctor Schimpf engaged Dorothy in conversation to pass the time away. To attempt to describe Jack Garner's astonishment, which gradually deepened into the most intense horror as the terrible story was unfolded to him, can better be imagined than described. "Jessie suffering from the effects of poison?" he gasped, incredulously.

The faint crackle of the cheap paper when Lite unfolded the letter made her start nervously. "Read it no matter what it is," she repeated, when she saw Lite's eyes go rapidly over the lines. Lite glanced at her sharply, then leaned and took her hand and held it close. His firm clasp steadied her more than any words could have done.

I went in, and my attention was directed to a series of papers unfolded on his table, in which lay about half an ounce of placer gold. Mason said to me, "What is that?" I touched it and examined one or two of the larger pieces, and asked, "Is it gold?" Mason asked me if I had ever seen native gold.

They went and sat together on the bench at the corner of the veranda, where the fading Western light came over their shoulders. A quizzical smile came into his eyes as he unfolded his sister’s letter with Thérèse still holding his arm and sitting very close to him.

Go and tell the men and then come back and sit down here beside me." When she had done what she was told, she sat down beside M. Vulfran and took the newspaper that he handed her, "The Dundee News." "What shall I read?" she asked as she unfolded it. "Look for the commercial column." The long black and white columns bewildered poor little Perrine.

A thin line of alders grew along the margin of the river, with their pale green leaves half unfolded; and in the midst of the swirling waters, parting them into two streams, lay a narrow islet on which tall willow wands were springing, with soft, white buds on every rod, and glistening in the sunshine.

The phenomena of premonition, combined with the faculties of clairvoyance by which the percipient is able to reproduce the past, make a great breach in our conceptions of both time and space. To the Deity, in the familiar line of the hymn, "future things unfolded lie"; but from time to time future things, sometimes most trivial, sometimes most important, are unfolded to the eye of mortal man.