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The old prophecy had come to pass, and there was indeed an end. But I saw for a moment into that pit before it was filled, and in it was laid open as it were a great stone chest, where the base of the menhir had been to cover it, and in that were skulls and bones of men, and among them the dull gleam of ancient gold and flint.
That monument was the one in Trafalgar Square, for which he designed the lions at the base. "If I am bothered about anything and everything, no matter what, I know my head will not stand it much longer." I sleep seven hours, and awake tired and jaded, and do not rally till after luncheon.
I had beauty; I wanted power ah yes, power, that was the thing! But I was young and a fool; you were older. You talked fine things then, but you had a base heart, so much baser than mine.... I might have been a good woman. I was a fool, and weak, and vain, but you were base so base coward and betrayer, you!
In her sight it was a duel only bad enough as a duel but still only a duel, where the parties incurring equal risks, had equal rights. But the conception of the affair, as it occurred to old Hinkley, was very different. "Base serpent!" he exclaimed "he has sent for the good young man only to murder him.
At the moment of his wrath, Wallace entered, and covered him with confusion. Struck at seeing a French prince in one of the persons he was going to treat with such indignity, he shrunk into himself, and bowed before him with all the cowering meanness of a base and haughty soul.
They cut fifteen or twenty little trees of about the same size as the arm of a youth of fifteen. From these they remove the branches, if there be any, and make them into posts of nine or ten feet in length. They then plant them in the earth at equal distances, in the form of a circle, placing them so that they may incline inwards, so that the base is much larger than the summit.
"Can the man be base enough to make such a charge as this against me, a boy, as I then was?" "You were not alone; remember that fact." "True; and most thankful am I for it. There is one, at least, can prove my innocence, if I can but discover him." "You will find that a matter of some difficulty. Your worthy friend and early preceptor was transported five years since." "Poor fellow!
"Then go from me, thou ungrateful one, hard of heart, unnatural child, base, cruel, and polluted. Go from me, if it be possible, for ever!" Then did they live for some days separated for a second time, each taking her meals in her own room; and Mrs. Richards, the owner of the lodgings, went again to Mrs.
As he mounted the spur of a hill two miles off, he turned to look at the flames that rose from the city, and in the bitterness of his humiliation he cursed God "The city which I have loved best on earth, the city in which I was born and bred, where my father lies buried, where is the body of Saint Julian this Thou, O God, to the heaping up of my confusion, and to the increase of my shame, hast taken from me in this base manner!
Miss Harriman knows nothing about it. If she had she would have confided in us." "Perhaps she has confided in Jack." "Don't you think that obsession of yours is rather well, unlikely, to put it mildly? Analyze it and you'll find you haven't a single substantial fact to base it on." This was true. Yet Kirby's opinion was not changed.
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