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Two days before he disappeared, he carried me to the summit of an isolated butte; we could see around us for ten miles; sure, if in any quarter of this land a man were safe from spies, it were in such a station; but it was in the very ague-fit of terror that he told me, and that I heard, his story.
Berlichingen, with their own Horse, still partly covered their rear; and the Prussians, Ohlauers included, were but weak in that branch of the service. Pursuit lasted little more than two miles, and was never hot. He was of the six whom we saw consulting at the door at Reinsberg, during a certain ague-fit; and he now rests silent here, while the matter has only come thus far.
From this hour we are nothing to each other you are the betrothed of Baron von Kindar. Allow me to give you this paper, which he signed to save his pitiful life, as a bridal present." He laid the paper upon the table, and bowed to Camilla, who was pale and terrified, and whose teeth chattered as if in an ague-fit. "Madame," said Lord Elliot, "I have the honor to bid you adieu.
She had known the sensation before the transmuting of terror and pity into this miraculous lucidity of thought and action; but never had it snatched her from such depths. Oh, thank heaven for her knowledge now for the trained mind that could take command of her senses and bend them firmly to its service! Wyant seconded her well, after a moment's ague-fit of fear.
The eminent professors in this grovelling department are at first merely out of sorts with themselves, and vent their spleen in little interjections and contortions of phrase cry Pish at a lucky hit, and Hem at a fault, are smart on personal defects, and sneer at 'Beauty out of favour and on crutches' are thrown into an ague-fit by hearing the name of a rival, start back with horror at any approach to their morbid pretensions, like Justice Woodcock with his gouty limbs rifle the flowers of the Della Cruscan school, and give you in their stead, as models of a pleasing pastoral style, Verses upon Anna which you may see in the notes to the Baviad and Maeviad.
An actor in the same company was visited by the apothecary of the place in an ague-fit, who, on asking his landlady as to his way of life, was told that the poor gentleman was very quiet and gave little trouble, that he generally had a plate of mashed potatoes for his dinner, and lay in bed most of his time, repeating his part.
If blood must be shed, let the blood be his! Never was man better primed for murder than the man who tramped across Wimbledon Common at eleven o'clock this night, with the snow drifting against his face, and his limbs shaken every now and then by an ague-fit. Happily for the interests of society, his hand lacked the power to execute that iniquity which his heart willed.
"Speak!" said I, wondering to see her shaken as by an ague-fit. "You do not love me, then? No?" "No." "You never could love me, mind and heart and body? No?" "No." "You could not endure me beside you, to to live with me near you?" "'Twould mean only pain, Joanna." "Then go!" cried she.
I stole a sidelong glance to one quarter and another, to observe if any man's attention was turned upon me. I trembled as if in an ague-fit; and, at first, felt continual impulses to quit the house, and take to my heels. I drew closer to my corner, held aside my head, and seemed from time to time to undergo a total revolution of the animal economy. At length the tide of ideas turned.
The night was perfectly still, but their leaves trembled as with an ague-fit. "Look, Harry! What is that?" she cried, pointing to them. He turned and looked, said it must be some loaded wagon passing, and went off with the child. "I hope to-morrow will be just like to-day!" said his wife when he returned. "What shall we do with it? our one real holiday, you know!"
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