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It was singularly pleasant; she could not help but enjoy it all very much; and yet it seemed to her as if she were caught in a net from which she had no power to get free; and she longed to clasp that hand that could, she thought, draw her whence and whither it pleased. "But Mr.
This warning was very acceptable to the deputies of the Eight Cantons. It was immediately communicated to the Zurichers. "You see," was the language of the accompanying letter, "whither the necessity of finding allies for the maintenance of your superstition must lead you. Do not hope that we will stand by you in case of war.
"She is laundress at the chateau." "Where are you going?" "We are making our escape." "Why?" "Twelve Uhlans passed by this evening. They shot three keepers and hanged the gardener. I was alarmed on account of the little one." "Whither are you bound?" "To Blainville." "Why?" "Because there is a French army there." "Do you know the way?" "Perfectly." "Well then, follow us."
Tarbox, in a neighboring chamber, alone and in his night-robe, was bending, smiting his thigh in silent merriment, and whispering to himself: "He thinks I'm an ass! He thinks I'm an ass! He can't see that I was simply investigating him!" Claude and his father left the next day, Saturday. Only the author of the A. of U. I. knew whither they were gone.
Thus for a quarter of a year the demented lover roamed the forest near the castle. But at length he wandered deeper into the wilderness, and the lady knew not whither he had gone.
I arrive at Toulouse; they tell me that he left the evening before, taking arms with him, a prey to the most violent despair. It was impossible at first to tell whither he had gone; after two days, some indications, collected with great trouble, put me upon his track. At last, after a thousand adventures, I found him in a miserable village. Never no, never, have I seen despair like this.
A little lower down the table, Hugh Calverley's mind was also full of one subject. "Nay," he whispered earnestly to Bertram: "he is yet hid some whither, here, in Wales. Men wit not where; and God forbid too many should!" "Then men be yet a-searching for him?" "High and low, leaving no stone unturned. God keep His true servant safe, unto His honour!"
The bear was somewhat lean after his long winter's sleep in some hole scooped out of the earth, whither he had retired with a substantial coating of fat upon him, as a protection against the chills of winter.
JANUARY 9th and 10th. On the 9th the wind dropped, and there was a dead calm; not a ripple disturbed the surface of the long undulations as they rose and fell beneath us; and if it were not for the slight current which is carrying us we know not whither, the raft would be absolutely stationary.
There was Sir Jonathan Brandon, for instance, who ran his own nephew through the lungs in a duel fought in a paroxysm of Cencian jealousy; and afterwards shot his coachman dead upon the box through his coach-window, and finally died in Vienna, whither he had absconded, of a pike-thrust received from a sentry in a brawl. The Wylders had not much to boast of, even in contrast with that wicked line.
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