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The horse laughed, when he heard the whelp's words, and replied, "Far, far is it from my power to overcome him, O king's son!
The sense of shame, the conviction of loss, and, possibly, other causes of conscience which lay yet deeper for the progeny of crime is most frequently a litter as numerous as a whelp's puppies helped to crush the mind which was neither strong enough to resist temptation at first, nor to bear exposure at last. I turned away with a tear, which I could not suppress, from the wretched spectacle.
And 'Little will it help us, he cried, 'to escape the jaws of the whirlpool; for in that cave lives Scylla, the sea-hag with a young whelp's voice; my mother warned me of her ere we sailed away from Hellas; she has six heads, and six long necks, and hides in that dark cleft.
And he cultivated the whelp, cultivated him earnestly, and by so doing learnt from the graceless youth that "Loo never cared anything for old Bounderby," and had married him to please her brother. Gradually, bit by bit, James Harthouse established a confidence with the whelp's sister from which her husband was excluded.
"You pay this poor sailor an amazing compliment," said Mr. Fountain, a little testily; "if he admires Lucy it can only be as a puppy is struck with the moon above. The moon does not respond to all this wonder by descending into the whelp's jaws no more will my niece.
And when Orpheus saw it, he groaned, and struck his hands together. And "Little will it help to us," he cried, "to escape the jaws of the whirlpool; for in that cave lives Scylla, the sea-hag with a young whelp's voice; my mother warned me of her ere we sailed away from Hellas; she has six heads, and six long necks, and hides in that dark cleft.
'A living dog is better than a dead lion." "Ay," his companion rejoined, "but I have a fancy that that dog's name is spelt neither with an F for Flore which was the whelp's name, was it not? nor a B for Beauvais; nor a C for Condé; but with an M " "For Mazarin!" the other answered sharply. "Yes, if he find the dog. But Beauvais is in possession."
I don't think you've much else to give now, anyway, but the warmth of your body." But the good, patient little sheep-dog had already placed herself at the grey whelp's voracious disposal, and he was pounding and tugging away at her in his usual merciless style.
In the Lion's Whelp's boat and wherry we carried twenty, Captain Caulfield in his wherry carried ten more, and in my barge other ten, which made up a hundred; we had no other means but to carry victual for a month in the same, and also to lodge therein as we could, and to boil and dress our meat.
A very small quantity of grain remained, and was doled out by mouthfuls. The stock of salted hides was considerable, and by gnawing them the garrison appeased the rage of hunger. Dogs, fattened on the blood of the slain who lay unburied round the town, were luxuries which few could afford to purchase. The price of a whelp's paw was five shillings and sixpence.
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