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He answered, with a quick vivacity, 'It is of two evils choosing the least. I was delighted with this flash bursting from the cloud which hung upon his mind, closed my letter directly, and joined the company. We supped at Professor Anderson's.
"O stay, Imre, you cannot look on them; they are all headless!" "My God!" exclaimed the young man, covering his face with both hands, and, bursting into tears he threw himself down with his face upon the earth. His comrades questioned the Wallachian closely as to what he knew about the young girl.
About midnight we were wakened from our slumbers by a thunderstorm, the thunder, lightning and hail being provided by a deluge of bursting shells, splinters and shrapnel bullets. When the barrage lifted, glimpses were caught of the enemy moving along our front wire; but this raid never succeeded in forcing an entrance to our trenches. We had every reason to "remember the fifth of November."
"There are four carcases down by the rocks. You can have meat for breakfast to-morrow!" The child, at the sound of the voice, came running down from the hut. "Oh, Mr. Dawes! I am so glad! We were beginning to despair mamma and I." Dawes snatched her from the ground, and bursting into a joyous laugh, swung her into the air.
"I have paid your rent and here is some money for food, and for your next month's rent. I shall see that you get work." "May God bless you," cries the widow, bursting into tears. "You are my prisoner," Sheriff Marlin declares, as he places his hand on the trembling figure. "On what charge," Trueman demands.
Broune had declared his very strong belief, his thorough conviction, that Melmotte had committed various forgeries, that his speculations had gone so much against him as to leave him a ruined man, and, in short, that the great Melmotte bubble was on the very point of bursting.
Again he said, in accordance with the faith which he had received from childhood, "Mary! Mother of Jesus my Lord, remember me." Suddenly he raised his eyes from the crucifix and looked upward, as if a vision of wonderful glory was bursting upon his entranced view. His countenance shone radiant with joy. A sweet smile was upon his lips.
The shells aimed at them looked so innocent, like little white puff-balls bursting up in the blue sky. We hoped they would be brought down, but they were too high for that. The bombs were only a little diversion of theirs by the way they were really trying to locate the Russian battery, as they were evidently making signals to their own headquarters.
"I take it the leaders of the Volitionalist Party here are pleased with the result of the Lady Dallona's work?" "Pleased? My dear Lord Virzal, they're fairly bursting with glee over it!" Harnosh of Hosh declared.
Had Arthur been saved, I could have kept up my spirits; but every now and then, when the recollection of his loss came across me, I could not help bursting into tears. Poor, dear fellow! I had scarcely thought how much I had cared for him. Duppo spoke but little; indeed, finding himself tolerably secure, he probably thought little of the future.
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