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Updated: June 8, 2025
But Abiram Fell was attending to a previous customer, and Miss Calista sat grimly down by the counter to wait her turn. The door opened, letting in a swirl of raw November evening wind and Ches Maybin. He nodded sullenly to Mr. Fell and passed down the store to mutter a message to a man at the further end.
No!" she continued, with a pretty air of mock dignity; "I am the Belvidera, the Calista, of the company; above all control, all husbanding, and reaping thirty-three shillings a week." "But are you above lovers as well as husbands?" asked Percy with a rakish air, borrowed from Saville. "Bless the boy!
In the outer harbor Captain Ben hailed them from the Calista. "Be good to yourselves, boys, and don't risk too much. You won't have any trouble getting to Seal Island; if it looks bad, you'd better hang up there with Pliny Ferguson. He'll be glad of company at his shack for the next two days; for, unless I'm 'way off, there won't be many trawls set or traps pulled until next Monday.
It was in the house of my cousin George Siddons, then one of the very pleasantest and gayest in Calcutta, that his young nephew Harry, son of his sister-in-law, my dear Mrs. I am to act Juliet to-morrow, and Calista on Thursday; Friday and Saturday I am to act Mrs. Haller and Lady Townley at Brighton.
She was set down at her house, and you may be sure that I was at the chair-door, as before, to help her out. 'Monstrous man! said she, 'I desire you to leave me. 'Madam, it would be against my oath, replied I; 'recollect the vow Eugenio sent to Calista. 'If you do not quit me, I will call for the domestics to turn you from the door.
'Here, said I, 'look I show it you in confidence it is a lock of her Ladyship's hair; here are her letters signed Calista, and addressed to Eugenio. Here is a poem, "When Sol bedecks the mead with light, And pallid Cynthia sheds her ray," addressed by her Ladyship to your humble servant. 'Calista! Eugenio! Sol bedecks the mead with light? cried the young lord. 'Am I dreaming?
Four happy months, thus blessed, and thus secured, we lived, when Calista could no longer conceal her growing shame, from the jealous Clarinau, or Dormina.
Something or some person was moving about stealthily in the room below. It wasn't the cat Miss Calista had shut him in the woodshed before she went to bed, and he couldn't possibly get out. It must certainly be a beggar or tramp of some description. Miss Calista might be given over to nervousness in regard to imaginary thieves, but in the presence of real danger she was cool and self-reliant.
The Verona with its grim cargo of dead and wounded steamed toward Seattle, meeting the steamer Calista about four miles out, stopping just long enough for Captain Wiman to shout thru his megaphone, "For God's sake don't land! They'll kill you! We have dead and wounded on board now."
"Madam," she said to the Queen, "lose not another word in speaking, but save life if, indeed," she added, her voice choking as she said it, "life may yet be saved." "It may, it may," answered the Lady Calista. "I have just heard that he has been brought before the King.
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