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Should I live to find a person whom, after minute and intimate trial of his character, I should deem worthy of such confidence, it is my intention to communicate to him the secret how to prepare and how to use such of the powders and essences stored within that casket as I myself have ventured to employ. Others I have never tested, nor do I know how they could be resupplied if lost or wasted.

However, his conscience would not allow him to surrender; and back again he went to the house, but still feared to knock. At length after walking up and down the street in a state of painful indecision he returned and ventured to knock. A terrible moment followed. He would have given anything to run away, and hoped with all his heart Mr. Roby would be out.

When the Prince expressed his surprise, she said, that finding herself much relieved by lying down, she had ventured into the fresh air, to recreate herself, and have her fortune told. Would not the Prince likewise wish to hear his? So, forgetting all his mother's wise injunctions, he advanced with Sidonia to the wizard.

When you look for the resemblance, it really seems slight enough, and when she begins to talk, my! the illusion vanishes at once, for really I do not think I ever met a person who irritated me as she did. She is a girl after the 'china doll' pattern, and can only use her brains at the direction of her mother. I do not think she ventured a remark of her own all the time I was there."

Blank looks, negative gestures, but still no coin. "Perhaps it is in somebody's lap," timidly ventured one of the younger women. "It doesn't seem to be on the table."

With these solemn preparations began a sitting which reminded a few old men of some of the first sittings of the Kong Parliament. High words were uttered by the enemies of the government. Its friends, afraid of being accused of abandoning the cause of the Commons of England for the sake of royal favour, hardly ventured to raise their voices. Montague alone seems to have defended the King.

It was not at all the sort of bathe which they had anticipated, and, had there been another available spot within reach, they would have utterly disdained it. "Shall we go on to Yellow Head?" ventured Merle hesitatingly. "There isn't time. The tide would be out before we got there, and it's a perfect tangle of oar-weed unless the water's high. Never mind!

Moreover, the woods were exceedingly beautiful and fragrant, and comparatively cool: for it happened to be the coolest season of the year in that sultry region, else the party of Europeans could not have ventured to travel there at all.

"What have I done to offend him?" thought Dick, as he waited for the young officer to speak. "Sit down!" growled Lacey; and Dick obeyed. "It's beyond bearing!" exclaimed the lieutenant. "I'll clean my own boots, and brush my own clothes. I'm sick of it!" "Nothing to do with me," thought Dick; and he ventured a remark. "Can I help you in any way, sir?" "No yes; play something soothing to me.

"You see, my dear sir, as you have never invited me, I have ventured to come unasked to make your acquaintance, and to introduce my dear boys to you; for it is possible you have sent me a message by Katherine which she has forgotten to deliver; so I thought " Thus far the pretty little widow had proceeded when the children, catching sight of their auntie, sprang upon her with a cry of delight.