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We had not long to wait, for the very next day, just as Mivart was preparing to leave for London, Miss Wynne was seized by another paroxysm. It was more severe than any previous one so severe, indeed, that it seemed to me that it must be the last.

"Clear enough to me," the big man growled; but he was quite evidently influenced by Hendricks' words. "However, I'm willing to wait but we must put Mrs, Embury under surveillance " "Under what!" demanded Eunice, her beautiful face again contorted by uncontrollable anger. "I will not be watched or spied upon!" "Hush, Eunice," begged Elliott. "Try to keep yourself calm.

"Will nothing induce you to speak just one word to me?" he exclaimed; and then he ran right away from her mocking laughter, and did not even wait to have the rose-leaf door banged in his face. It was a very crestfallen King Grumbelo who knocked at the gates of apple-blossom on the following morning.

"But Rebecca did not heed his command, and being fatigued herself, hurriedly retired, saying, 'I'll wait till morning. "Morning came, and unfortunately for me, I was the first to awaken. Hastily dressing, I thought I would explore the scene of the late festivity; and so I descended the stairs and entered the silent, deserted drawing-room.

It is the thought of the men of independent MIND in this country that throws English tea and English rule overboard forever. Don't wait until you are old. Don't wait until you are ONE DAY older. Begin NOW.

But two hours after one of them returned, saying, that the Louvre was closed and that before closing, the captain of the watch had said, "It is useless to wait longer, no one will leave the Louvre to-night; his majesty is in bed." The marshal carried this news to his daughter. The Porte St. Antoine was a kind of vault in stone, similar to our present Porte St.

For a moment Betty thought that Harriet was dead, she turned so gray and her gaze was so fixed. But she spoke in a moment. "Why do you say this to me now?" "Because I fear you and Jack Oh, I hope it is not true. The person who thinks you love each other may have been mistaken. But I could not wait to warn you.

He stopped in the doorway and leisurely drew forth his cigarette case. "Shall we wait for the explosion?" he asked without a sign of the emotion that had gone before. She gravely selected a cigarette from the case which he extended. As he lighted his own, he watched her draw from her little gold bag a diamond-studded case, half filled.

At the very same hour the butler has planned with the policeman on fixed post to steal Mother McCurdy's diamonds and pass them to a brother of the policeman, who is to wait at the tradesman's entrance and whistle "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee."

"It will save you taking the packet back and you can get ready for dinner while you are upstairs." Lawrence got up. "Very well; we'll go now." "Take the elevator, even if you have to wait," Lucy said as they went to the door.