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He went down below at once as a wet blanket. "I was just shaking your bed up a bit," said Miss Harris, reddening. "I see you was," said the skipper, briefly. He tried to pluck up courage to tell her that he couldn't take her, but only succeeded in giving vent to an inhospitable cough. "I'll get the supper," said the mate, suddenly; "you sit down, old man, and talk to Lucy."
On being told to enter, she found that officer seated at his table with some charts before him, and a haggard look upon his face, which might have warned her that this was not the proper time to air any personal grievances. 'Well? he said briefly as she entered. 'I came to see you, captain, she began, 'because an outrageous thing has been done on board this ship, and I desire reparation.
The brains, in the interim, considering this unnatural course, will fall into a raving dotage, and withhold all feeling from the sinews and motion from the muscles. Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.
He spoke slowly, as if weighing his words. I replied that I was most grateful that I owed it to Major Andre that I had not long ago endured the fate which was now to be his. "Permit me, sir," he said, "to ask when this occurred." I replied that it was when, at his Excellency's desire, I had entered Philadelphia as a spy; and then I went on briefly to relate what had happened.
Everything is beautiful in its order, in nature as well as in morality; and if the order of nature be broken, it shows the body to be out of order. Of each of these effects briefly.
they softly sang as the successive courses of this feast were disposed of. The drouth and heat, which they had briefly escaped during their sojourn in Canada, brooded sovereign upon the tiresome landscape.
He visited Scotland during the ceremonies at Queen Mary's return from France. I saw him once, and then but briefly. Why do you ask?" "It is whispered among the servants," said Sir George, "that Leicester is at Chatsworth in disguise." Chatsworth was the home of the Duke of Devonshire, and was but a short distance from Haddon. After Sir George spoke, I remembered the words of old Bess.
Sir William Twyford, having thus brought the affair to some degree of forwardness, now waited on his lordship. "My dear lord Martin," said he, "what have you resolved upon? The affair is briefly thus you must either give up Delia, or fight Mr. Prettyman." "Give up Delia!" exclaimed the little lord; "by all that is sacred I will sooner spill the last drop of my blood.
"That is a strange question," Miss Elizabeth interposed. "Theodora has not been tried." But Priscilla was looking straight at Theo's downcast eyes. "But I think Theodora knows," she said, briefly. "Are you like your sister in that, Theodora? I remember hearing Mr. Oglethorpe say once you would be."
"Well," he said, musing aloud in his annoyance, "Judge Henry wants them by the 30th. Well, this is the 24th, and time enough yet." "This is the 27th," said the Virginian, briefly. That made a difference! Not so easy to reach Sunk Creek in good order by the 30th! Balaam had drifted three sunrises behind the progress of the month.
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