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A little reptile, allured by their immobility, had crept out of the stone wall which they were standing near, and lay flashing its keen eyes at them, and running out its tongue, a forked thread of tremulous scarlet. Maxwell brought his heel down upon its head as he spoke, and ground it into the earth. Matt winced at the anguish of the twisting and writhing thing.
I dare no longer look upon you; all my wisdom and discretion might melt away, and I might be allured to seek for myself that freedom which I must receive alone at the hands of the king, in Berlin." With hasty steps Trenck left the stable and returned to the house, where he stretched himself upon the sofa, and gave himself up to dreamland. It was twilight when Halber returned from his long ride.
Now, when he was alone, he realised how deep was his despair; another disappointment, another fall, the very worst! And not a star in the murky night! He suddenly remembered Hanka, who probably had looked for him to-day; who perhaps was seeking him even now. No; Hanka was not fair; Hanka was dark; she did not radiate, but she allured. But how was it didn't she walk a little peculiarly?
It was long before Achaia appeared on that heated stage of action, which allured the more restless spirits of Athens and Lacedaemon. XVII. We now pause at Elis, which had also felt the revolution of the Heraclidae, and was possessed by their comrades the Aetolians.
For one so easily allured as this poor chaplain, her hand was surely enough. 'Oh, Madeline! said he, 'tell me that you love me do you do you love me? 'Hush, said she. 'There is mother's step. Our tete-a-tete has been of monstrous length. Now you had better go. But we shall see you soon again, shall we not? Mr Slope promised that he would call again on the following day.
When, soon after, the violent storms and floods were observed, the less doubt was entertained as to the certain destruction of the handsome stranger; and Bertalda openly mourned for him and blamed herself for having allured the unfortunate knight into the forest.
Ever since the day when the baby had come to his knee, allured by the temptation of his watch, he had apparently considered her as in some sort belonging to him; and now he had almost come to think that he had a right to claim her as his companion in his walk back from the Bank to his early dinner, where a high chair was always placed ready for the chance of her coming to share his meal.
She was and is to-day, in fact, the only attraction. Music of a coarse description is used to attract the passer-by, who, glancing at the place from whence it proceeds, sees flaring lights, gaudy and brilliant signs generally the figure of some female in tights and is allured in by the unusual appearance, and the picture his imagination forms of a jolly time to be had within.
When she had travelled a long long way, she became so tired that she could walk no longer; therefore she climbed into a big pipal tree, in order to be secure from wild beasts, and rested amongst the branches. After a time a handsome young prince, who had been chasing deer in the forest, came to the big pipal tree, and, allured by its tempting shade, lay down to sleep away his fatigues.
As regarded his personal interests and his fame, Pulteney must have had every motive to induce him to remain in the House where his eloquence and his debating power had won him such a place. It is impossible to believe that he could have been allured just then, at the height of his position and his renown, by the bauble of a coronet which he had twice before refused contemptuously refused.
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