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It would have been an episode in female life in which pride might be taken; but all that was now changed. She had made her little attempt, had made it, as she felt, in a very languid manner, and had found herself treated as a child for doing so. Of course she was happy in her ill success; of course she would have been broken-hearted had she succeeded.
"I have borne so much; surely I can bear the rest, until thou hast found the treasure, and all is changed for us. When thou art rich and great, and high in favour with all, then perchance thou canst prevail even with our stern father, and win his leave to carry hence thy poor little sister. Till then I will strive to remain." Cuthbert took her hand and held it between his.
René de Montigny gave a cry of recognition. "I should never have known you. You are so strangely changed." Guy Tabarie endorsed him. "Still,'tis his dear old countenance." Katherine watching the scene in sick despair, turned piteously to the king. "Sire, sire, is this true?" Louis, who had been watching all with unmitigated satisfaction, answered fleeringly: "Most true, pretty mistress.
The scheme thus sagaciously conceived, his adversary, with all his efforts, was unable to circumvent. The campaign lasted little more than a month. Twenty-nine times the Prince changed his encampment, and at every remove the Duke was still behind him, as close and seemingly as impalpable as his shadow.
This vanished when the music changed and the well-balanced figures, raising bent arms, danced with riotous abandon. In a minute or two the melancholy note was struck again and the movements were marked by dignified reserve. Kit got a hint of Southern passion and, by contrast, of the austerity that often goes with Indian blood.
There was no sign of a floating or struggling body anywhere visible. And while they kept an eager look-out, the light in the heavens slowly changed.
We brought the bunch down with us, and descended by the eastern way, which was not guarded; and lo! the twigs were changed into shining brass, and the upper ends of them into gold, as a sign that we had been with the people of the third age, which is named from copper or brass.
Then she changed her mind and let it pass, as he seemed to believe. "Joseph constructed a disinfecting room with a wood-smoke fire, or something of that description, and he has been disinfecting everything, down to Oscard's pipes." She gave a little laugh, which stopped suddenly. "Was it very bad?" she asked. "Oh, no. We took it in time, you see. We had eleven deaths. And now we are all right.
"No, my lad," said the mate, in answer to a question from Mark, "and I don't suppose we shall see it to-night. You come and keep the morning watch with me, and look out for the point when the sun touches it first. That's the time to see an island." Mark kept the watch with the mate, but they did not see the island, and the captain changed their course.
From this falsehood she proceeded to bitter reproaches: instead of defending herself, she accused him of having left her a prey to anxiety; she went so far as to imply that there must be some foundation for the hints of the chevalier, until at last the duke, although he was not guilty of the slightest infidelity, and had excellent reasons to give in justification of his silence, was soon reduced to a penitent mood, and changed his threats into entreaties for forgiveness.
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