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With an effort I stretched out mine and took his, and held it for a second as in old times. "Good-bye, Victor," he said, in rather a strained voice, "I shall never cease to regret what I have done." He hesitated, as if wondering if I should speak. I did not, and he turned and went down the alley, and the darkness closed up after him.
When Arthur came home from Exeter from his first long vacation, their friendship had been renewed after a fashion, then had ended abruptly in a quarrel and a pitched battle, from which neither had emerged victor, both leaving the battle ground exhausted and anguished by a humiliating sense of defeat.
The surgeon looked up with a start, and Reginald perceived that he wore the metal mask which he had noticed on a former occasion. "Who brought you here?" asked Victor, impatiently. "The servant who admitted me," answered Reginald. "I told her I was your intimate friend, and that I wanted to see you immediately. She therefore brought me here." "She had no right to do so. However, no matter.
Madame D. and Madame de la R., two noble and brave women, had promised Madame Victor Hugo, who was ill in bed, to ascertain where I was, and to give her some news of me. Madame D. had heroically ventured into this carnage. The following incident happened to her.
The intent to retire was honest enough but not so easy to carry out. The conqueror of the Creeks and Seminoles belonged not merely to Tennessee but to the entire Southwest; the victor of New Orleans belonged to the Nation. Already there was talk "talk everlastingly," Mrs. Jackson tells us in the letter just quoted of making the hero President.
I have wandered somewhat far from the question of the beer and the porcelain, and yet I think you will find that the sequence is not lacking, and that the little window commands a large landscape. It was raining when Victor Crummles stepped out into the street. But he did not notice the fact. True, he put his umbrella up, but that was mere force of habit. He was not aware that he had put it up.
Prince Victor must have contrived some devious errand to get the young man out and away early that day; for by the time Nogam had looked for him in the morning, Karslake was nowhere to be found; neither had he returned when the party left for Frampton Court a circumstance which Nogam regretted most bitterly.
I spoke to him and calmed him; but although he was satisfied that I was human, he evidently could not make me out. Nor was this surprising, for the village St. Victor by name lies quite off the track of all but the inhabitants of a small district. The man, however, made me welcome, and offered me a chair.
Victor whispered to his brother: "I never expected to see anything like this. Who would have thought that the few words Deerfoot has spoken about our religion could have stirred up such deep feeling?"
This part of the record may easily have been either an interpolation to sustain the claim of the miraculous birth of Jesus, or it may have been simply the defiant fling of the vanquished to the victor, because phallic worship was in the ascendant.
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