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And if so it was, and well I know it was so, what justification had you for thus harshly severing yourself from him? You should have considered the whole matter before the die was cast, and not have entered upon it, if you deemed you might have cause to repent you of it as a sin. As soon as he became yours, you became his.
She cast frequent glances at him; her pursed lips seemed to await an opportune moment. 'Well, mother, what is it? he said presently, with his wonted look of kindness. By living so long together and in such close intercourse the two had grown skilled in the reading of each other's faces. 'My dear, she replied, with something of solemnity, 'I was perfectly right.
He forgot that this word "stranger" was the most deadly insult that one could cast in the face of the former emigres, who had returned with the allied armies. Still the young marquis did not change his insolently nonchalant attitude. He touched the visor of his hunting cap with his finger, and replied: "It is true I have lost my way."
A vast amount of material was cast out of the submarine crater, forming an island 500 yards in length and rising up to nine feet above the surface, but after a few days it was broken up and dispersed over the sea-bed by the action of the waves. Volcanoes, p. 262.
From thence to Guildhall, and there set my hand to the book before Colonel King for my sea pay, and blessed be God! they have cast me at midshipman's pay, which do make my heart very glad. So, home, and there had Sir W. Batten and my Lady and all their company and Capt. Browne and his wife to a collation at my house till it was late, and then to bed. 13th.
At the back of the great arcade surrounding it, the arches and pillars of which were draped with French and Mexican flags, was banked a profusion of plants and flowers, upon which was cast the light of myriads of candles and colored lanterns. In the middle of the huge improvised ball-room the great fountain played, and its sparkling waters were seen through masses of tropical vegetation.
'Ethel, he said, stopping short, 'never threaten Providence above all, never keep the threat. Ethel scarcely durst speak, in her anxiety to know what cast the die, though with all Dr. Spencer's charms, she could not but pity the delusion that could have made him hope to be preferred to her father above all, by her mother. Nor could she clearly understand from him what had dispelled his hopes.
Well, so it is with men, Allan, whose soul-stuff is drawn from the gulf of Spirit by Nature's hand, and, cast upon the cold air of this death-driven world, freezes into a million shapes each different to the other and yet, be sure, the same. Now talk no more, but follow me. So we went through the silent ruins.
The body of the unfortunate boy had been cast into a deep well, heaps of rubbish flung over it, and the well built up. This they knew as a positive certainty, for they had seen it.
A warrant for the arrest of the three delegates was issued, but they escaped in time into the mountains. The die was cast, then. The war with France was to break out again. There was to be no more procrastination and hesitation. The time for action was at hand. Already the French ambassador, Andreossi, had left Vienna, and all the members of the legation had followed him.
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