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"What will you be next, sir?" said mother to him one day as he stood with his back to the doorpost. "A lieutenant, Dame Loveday," says he. "And what next?" says she. "A commander." "And next?" "Next, post-captain." "And then?" "Then it will be almost time to die." I'd warrant that he'd mind it to this very day if you were to ask him.
The time will come, Roger, though you don't think so now, when you will be vexed that while we cannot tell whether father and mother are alive or dead, and whether George will live or die, you put the pain of quarrels upon us too." "Well, get you gone now!" said Roger, not immediately discovering that she was some paces on her way home again before he said that much.
"Some turn the wheel of electricity, some suspend rings to a loadstone, and find that what they did yesterday they can do again to-day. Some register the changes of the wind, and die fully convinced that the wind is changeable.
There was only one danger for Nero, if Claudius should die too soon, the Senate might refuse to trust the Empire to a child.
She even sighed more deeply and often over Mildred, for she knew well that more truly than any of the house-plants in the window the young girl who cared for them was an exotic that might fade and die in the changed and unfavorable conditions of her present and prospective life.
"Therefore I shall not choose that death; but there is, for a young man like me, a death which has always been reckoned the best that received in defending your king and country." "If you suffer beyond your strength, if you owe nothing to those who survive you, if death on the field of battle is offered to you, die, M. le Comte; I should have done so long ago, had I not been condemned to live."
"Rubbish, my dearest; only tell me." "But I shall die." "Just tell me that one little thing. You won't die for that." And so she bothered him and bothered him, until he thought, "There's nothing to be done if a woman sets her mind on a thing. I'd better die and get it over at once."
A light stole over the superstitious face. "No device or hatred, or plot, has prevailed against thee," Kaid said eagerly. "Thou hast defeated all even when I turned against thee in the black blood of despair. Thou hast conquered me even as thou didst Harrik." "Thou dost live," returned David drily. "Thou dost live for Egypt's sake, even as Harrik died for Egypt's sake, and as others shall die."
I will not resign; the king is with us; our strength shall be known. These haughty imbeciles shall fall into the trap they have dug for us." Lumley spoke warmly, and with the confidence of a mind firmly assured of success. Lord Saxingham was moved; bright visions flashed across him, the premiership, a dukedom. Yet he was old and childless, and his honours would die with the last lord of Saxingham!
The scandal of the quarrel became a grave injury to the Government of the country. A serious illness of Bismarck caused apprehension that he might die while still unreconciled. The Emperor took the opportunity, and by a kindly message opened the way to an apparent reconciliation.
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