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You are his daughter?" "Yes, monsieur; but he never acknowledged me." "That was that he might leave you part of his fortune." "He left me nothing; he made no will." "Indeed! Poor little woman! The Marshal died suddenly of apoplexy. But, come, madame, hope for the best. The State must do something for the daughter of one of the Chevalier Bayards of the Empire."
She will dispatch another laysister, unless she orders the country-woman to bring me back to the convent." "What did the priest say?" "He said the lay-sister died of a cerebral lethargy, which super-induced an attack of apoplexy." "Very good, very good." "I want him to say fifteen masses for her, if you will let me?"
But you'll come and breakfast with me to-morrow, and hear this woman's examination?" "Why, your hour is rather early." "Can't make it later. If I were not on the boards of the Outer House precisely as the nine-hours bell rings, there would be a report that I had got an apoplexy, and I should feel the effects of it all the rest of the session." "Well, I will make an exertion to wait upon you."
The sudden deaths of Colonel and Judge Pyncheon may have been due to the old wizard's curse that "God would give them blood to drink"; or simply to an inherited tendency to apoplexy. Did Donatello have furry, leaf-shaped ears, or was this merely his companions' teasing?
There was no voluntary exercise, if I except an old gentleman in a black velvet coat, who repeatedly suspended himself by the hands, head downwards, and who died of apoplexy not long afterwards; every one was being exercised upon.
"He seemed remarkably well; he talked as he always does." "I have the misfortune to be a good soothsayer," I replied. "I read uncommon trouble in his eyes. The King will soon die." Alas! I had only prophesied too well, for the next day the King went down with an attack of apoplexy, and a few days later was buried in the citadel close to Catherine.
I am now as well as men at my age can expect to be, and I yet think I shall be better. Piozzi Letters, ii. 163. From a stroke of apoplexy. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'You really do not use me well in thinking that I am in less pain on this occasion than I ought to be.
Most aggravating circumstance of all, perhaps, was that the movement of the punkah flickered his papers away whenever he removed a weight. Yet he could not study them unless he spread them all in front of him; and without the punkah he felt he would die of apoplexy. He had to reach a decision before midnight.
A few moments later he got into the cab in which he was stricken down with apoplexy." Extraordinary as Pascal's explanations must have seemed to her, Marguerite did not doubt their accuracy in the least. "Then it is the copy of this letter which you saw in the possession of the Marquis de Valorsay?" "Yes." "And the original?" "M. de Fondege alone can tell what has become of that.
At length Henry the Fourth, on the eve of an expedition to the Holy Land, undertaken, it is said, in expiation of his usurpation of the throne, was struck with apoplexy; and a tale, in regard to his death, is current among the historians of the period, on which Shakespeare has founded one of the most beautiful scenes in his historical dramas.
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