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Out of the dozen mangled wrecks of houses I didn't know which one my pal had chosen as his residence, so I went along the shell-mutilated, water-logged road, peering into this ruin and that, until, at the end of the street, about four hundred yards from the Germans and two hundred yards from our own trenches, I came across a damp and dark figure lurking in the shadows: "'Alt! 'oo goes there?"
They find the Kaiser quite unprepared, and their enterprise extremely feasible. "MAY 10th. Wrecks of Kaiser's forces intrench themselves, rather strongly, at a place called Bitonto, in Apulia, not far off. "MAY 25th. Montemar, in an impetuous manner, storms them there: which feat procures for him the title, Duke of Bitonto; and finishes off the First of the Sicilies.
Let us sum it all up in one word: it was something for which there is no name. Its track was destruction. On the sea it leaves wrecks. What does it leave on land? Funerals. When it subsides, New England is prostrate. It has left its legacy: this legacy is coughs and patent medicines. This is an epic; this is destiny. You think Providence is expelled out of New England? Listen!
"You will do something, now that you have a chance. No woman has a chance no LADY until she is a Mrs. It's the struggle to round that point that wrecks so many of them." Margaret kissed her. "And," she went on, "he has been made Attorney-General." Never, never had Margaret seen such unconcealed satisfaction in her grandmother's face.
As I was sauntering along leisurely enough, I heard my name pronounced behind me. I turned, and saw Sir Willoughby Townshend, an old baronet of an antediluvian age a fossil witness of the wonders of England, before the deluge of French manners swept away ancient customs, and created, out of the wrecks of what had been, a new order of things, and a new race of mankind. "Ah! my dear Mr.
She was a hummer. Being the first steamer out, she carried all the scurvy patients and hospital wrecks. Then she must have carried a couple of millions of Klondike dust and nuggets, to say nothing of a packed and jammed passenger list, deck passengers galore, and bucks and squaws and dogs without end. And she was loaded down to the guards with freight and baggage.
Young people don't like any bitters, but we old, shattered wrecks need a dash of it in the wine of life to help digestion. Good night." LIKE COVERED FIRE. Much Ado about Nothing; iii. That night marked an epoch in the married life of Arthur and Edith Fenton.
But you all would have been nervous wrecks by now without me. And you call me names, like an ungrateful populace!" It was a mirth-provoking series of revelations. "Archie has shown himself a most artistic sly-boots," said Catherine. "I never had more delicious conscience pangs than I did on that canoe-ride." "So it was with me," declared Polly.
Nobody knew I had an eye on wrecks till one fine morning I dropped in upon Douglas B. Longhurst in his den, gave him all the facts and figures, and put it to him straight: 'Do you want me in this ring? or shall I start another? He took half an hour, and when I came back, 'Pink, says he, 'I've put your name on. The first time I came to the top, it was that Moody racket; now it's the Flying Scud."
We were in the midst of soldiers again. This time it was a bunch of motor repair men. They wandered along the roads, working on the trucks and cars that were abandoned when they got into trouble, and left along the side of the road. We had seen scores of such wrecks that day, and I had wondered if they were left there indefinitely. Far from it, as I learned now.
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