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Soon I heard her voice: "What is it, please; what do you wish?" "A private interview immediately, of the utmost importance." "Impossible. Every moment is engaged until I go out this afternoon." "Can not help it. You must grant it. It concerns a member of your immediate family. It is of vital import." "Very well; you may come right away, but be brief. I will grant you only a few minutes."
Gennaro was coming on, and the Jesuits were eager for us to stop they have the utmost confidence in the miracle and were the more eager because many Catholics, till they have seen it, doubt it. Our father director here tells us that before he went to Naples he did not believe it. That is, they have vague ideas of natural means, exaggeration, etc., not of course imputing fraud.
There were a number of men, women, and children on board the Frenchman's prize, all of whom, when informed of the port into which they had been taken, were thrown into a state of the utmost consternation, giving themselves up for lost doomed to slavery for the remainder of their lives, for the piratical character of the Algerines was well-known and much dreaded in those days by all the maritime nations.
But having regained his feet, Otto dashed forward with the utmost speed he could command, so that the frightened Jack could not find fault with his tardiness.
Of marriage he observed: "The utmost blessing that God can confer on a man is the possession of a good and pious wife, with whom he may live in peace and tranquility to whom he may confide his whole possessions, even his life and welfare." And again he said, "To rise betimes, and to marry young, are what no man ever repents of doing."
Concerning the goods of which we had been robbed at Kirree, he assured us he would use his utmost exertions to get them restored.
I only remember that I felt twice as if some inquisitive individual were looking over my shoulder. The third time I woke up with a start. "Sir," said a shopwalker, with the utmost politeness, "a gentleman has been waiting three quarters of an hour for the directory. Would you kindly hand it to him if you have quite finished with it?" It was a quarter to six.
Look where you might, there was nothing but the utmost sobriety and good behaviour. Although the men were, for the most part, young, and many of them just from the bloodiest fields of the South, there hung about them an air of serious decorum that argued well for the mission in which they were about to engage.
His shouts of command made the scene of the fire like a battle-field; the Moslems, so ably led, regardless of life as they were and ready to strain and exert their strength to the utmost, wrought wonders in the name of their God and His Prophet.
While he was still dwelling on the last note, and embellishing it with a prolonged flourish, a dirty hand was observed to glide stealthily and swiftly along the top of the wall, as if in pursuit of a fly, and then to clasp with the utmost dexterity one of the old gentleman's ankles. This done, the companion hand appeared, and clasped the other ankle.
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