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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Well, if you won't allow that she's likely to oblige us by leaving this world, at anyrate you'll admit that there's always a goodish chance that the husband-elect may run up against a French cannonball and get out of the scrape that way. Anyhow, we've come to the end of our tether. The alternative's ruin.
"Only a hundred a year!" is his plainest, most bitter reflection. "Five-and-twenty, and only earning a hundred a year!" Brookes is not of a calm temperament. His nervous system is tensely strung, and generally, owing to various incidental matters, slightly out of tune, or at anyrate, feels so. His circulation is rapid, every pulse beats strongly, and the blood flows hotly in his veins.
However, we had the consolation of reserving this to the close of our visit, when, of course, we must have awaked out of our Venetian feelings at anyrate. The train brought us to Padua long before bedtime. During a prolonged summer sojourn with kind friends resident in a quiet country town, we became quite interested in the tactics of the neighbours, and acquainted with their social condition.
There was a man, at anyrate, to whom he could open his heart; a man of high culture, wide sympathies, and great knowledge of life.
The Governor was not a very gallant man, like the Governor at Porto Bello. Perhaps he was afraid of his soldiers, the convicts from the "Terra Firma." At anyrate he consented to surrender, but he asked that the pirates would have the kindness to pretend to attack him, "for the saving of his honesty."
Perhaps in their souls was some sense of personal defeat; they had been rejected as women and as angels of the Lord. We two at anyrate sat beyond the reach of their graciousness; their eyes were averted or lifted up; we lay in outer darkness. As they began to sing once more we both rose and with a friendly look at each other went out into the streets of the hostile city.
"If anyone on the shore were to see us as we ran down, and notice women on deck, he would think it strange. At anyrate it's best to be on the safe side." So saying he led the way to his cabin below. "It is a rough place, mesdemoiselles," he said, removing his cap, "but it is better than the prisons at Nantes.
"Boy, boy," said Bill, in a voice so deep that it startled me, "this is no place for you." "That's true," said I; "I'm of little use on board, and I don't like my comrades; but I can't help it, and at anyrate I hope to be free again soon." "Free?" said Bill, looking at me in surprise. "Yes, free," returned I; "the captain said he would put me ashore after this trip was over." "This trip!
At anyrate, there was no affectation in this; she thoroughly believed in her own superiority; her subscription to that creed was implicit and ex animo. Nor do we detect affectation in her most notable vagaries and crotchets. She loved the truth, and spoke it out we were about to write, manfully; and why not?
"Well, at anyrate," Harry said, "Jeanne has no time for any thought of marrying just at present. But there is another thing I want to tell you about. I have first a confession to make. I have deceived you." "Deceived me!" Marie said with a smile. "It can be nothing very dreadful, Harry. Well, what is it?" "It is more serious than you think, Marie.
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