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Remi, drawing a pistol from his holsters, fired at and shot his faithful companion, averting his eyes as he touched the fatal trigger, and galloping rapidly away from the death-cry that smote upon his ear; and, as he dashed the spurs into his reeking horse, he invoked maledictions on the money which was the cause of this unfortunate journey. The money! but where was it?
They were both beautiful, and it hadn't taken them long to fall in love. One Russian-Jewish exile marrying another that was the bitterness of it to our very Gentile mother and our Sidneyfied father, who had spent fifty years living down his origin. So I was called in to assist in averting the catastrophe. I wouldn't say anything except that it seemed very suitable, and that annoyed my mother.
In the afternoon a messenger called and delivered to each of us an official letter from the commander of the Northern troops thanking us for the part we had played in averting trouble and bringing the matter to a peaceful end. An interesting sidelight on the affair was received a few days later.
"If you can say it AT ONCE it may be the means of averting much harm," he said. "Write to herself; not to me." On Saturday he drove over to Hintock, and assured her with mysterious pacifications that in a day or two she might expect to receive some assuring news. So it turned out. When Sunday morning came there was a letter for Grace from her father.
In the language of the prophet, we "saw the sword coining upon the land," but while he believed in the possibility of averting it by concession and compromise, I, on the contrary, as firmly believed that such a course could only strengthen and confirm what I regarded as a gigantic conspiracy against the rights and liberties, the union and the life, of the nation.
The Triple Entente, therefore, was not an alliance; it was only an agreement for common diplomatic action in the hope of averting a terrible menace.
She tiptoed up to kiss him again, this time at the back of the neck, carefully averting her floury hands. "Mamma's boy! I made you three pen-wipers to-day out of the old red table-cover." "Aw, fellers don't use pen-wipers!" He set up a jiggling, his great feet coming down with a clatter. "Stop!" "Can't I jig?" "No; not with neighbors underneath."
"Perhaps it is in your handbag?" and he glanced at the rather large raffia bag that lay on the table. She snatched it up, slightly averting her body as she looked hastily through its contents. "It isn't here.... Oh, I don't know where it is! What does it matter?"
"O my brother, how I have prayed and longed for your coming. Thank God! you are here at last. You are well, brother, are you not?" said she, looking up with a glance that seemed to betray some anxiety. "Never better, Amelie," replied he, in a gayer tone than was quite natural to him, and shyly averting his eyes from her tender scrutiny. "Never better.
The tone of Foresta's voice caused her father to look up quickly and anxiously. "What are you crying about, my dear?" asked Mr. Crump. Foresta made no reply, but held out her hand so that her father could see it. "Poor thing; how did you hurt it?" he asked. "Don't think about that. Mama wants you. Come on!" said Foresta, averting her face.
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