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At the same time through the streets of Grenelle, Saint Honore, and Du Coq, a double stream of people broke the feeble hedge of Swiss guards and came like a whirlwind even to the very legs of Porthos's horse and that of D'Artagnan. This new eruption was more dangerous than the others, being composed of armed men.
The courtier flew downstairs like a whirlwind, tripped into the room, and fell upon his red-stockinged knees to do homage to his sovereign, who rose majestically and extended a hand of pardon to the now grovelling peasant.
Somehow, I reckoned he 'd be mighty likely ter perform the job, the way his jaw set an' his eyes flared. Leastwise, I didn't possess no rip-roarin' ambition fer ter be thet other feller. Still, I didn't suppose he was no whirlwind."
Yes; he who had stormed out of the drawing-room like a whirlwind, having discomfited everybody, leaving the girls in tears, and the boys in a white heat of passion, when he reached the profoundest depths of his own retirement, laughed. What did it mean? Of all the people in the world, his children would have been most entirely thunderstruck by this self-betrayal. They could not have understood it.
He would thus be placed between two fires and his position made tenfold more perilous than ever. It may be said that if this trick succeeded the doom of both Deerfoot and Whirlwind would be sealed. And it was precisely the stratagem which the Assiniboines had attempted.
Mademoiselle! answer me I won't tell tales now do you really and truly believe in God?" A laugh, which was a laugh of pleasure, ran through Ashe, as he hurriedly put out his lights. "Tormentor!" he said to himself "must you put a woman through her theological paces at this time of night? Can't you go to sleep, you little whirlwind? What's to be done? If I shut my window the noise will scare her.
A miniature whirlwind of the sort frequent in the desert was slowly circling the grave; and even as they looked it swung immediately over it and there stood for some moments, its tall dust column rising up into the zenith like the smoke of a funeral pyre! Then on they marched and there they left him, sure that by night lions would be roaring him a requiem not unfitting his wild spirit.
From the appearance of the Indians, I do not think they suspect our being in this vicinity, and I propose that our horses be secured in this thicket that skirts the bank here, where they can feed and not be detected. We must do without a fire, and one of us had better go cautiously to the top of the cliff yonder, and reconnoitre." "Whirlwind, will go.
I fear I have annoyed her sadly." "Nonsense! A good joke something to tease the little witch about. But come in. I'm forgetting the sacred rites." And before the bewildered Mr. Stanhope could help himself, he was half dragged into the lighted hall, and the door shut between him and escape. In the meantime, Elsie, like a whirlwind, had burst into the kitchen, where Mrs.
Of Enoch we read, 'He was not, for God took him. Of Elijah we read, 'He went up in a whirlwind to heaven. Of Elisha we read, 'He died and they buried him. And of all three the two who were translated that they should not see death, and the one who died like the rest of us it is equally true that 'God took' them, and that they were taken to Him.
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