United States or Hungary ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Sad, tired, sorrowful eyes eyes out of which all expectation had departed; which had nothing left to fear, only because they had nothing left to hope. They were turned now upon Amphillis. "Your Grace's new chamber-dame," said Mistress Perrote, "in the room of Clarice. Her name is Amphillis Neville." The faintest shadow of interest passed over the sorrowful eyes.
On coming back to the house, after conducting the three men to the hut, I found the lieutenant and his sergeant, Silas Custis, seated before the fire; the young lieutenant every now and then, as was not surprising, casting a glance at Clarice. But she was too busily occupied in getting the supper-table ready to notice the admiration she was inspiring.
"They had white men with them and only the bravest of their warriors took part in the fight," he replied. I could only trust that Winnemak was right in his conjecture, and that we should find Clarice and her escort at the camp.
One of these was a jeweller's, and he turned sharply away from it and quickened his pace towards the fencing-rooms. How could it be the same, he asked himself, when the mere sparkle of an emerald ring in a jeweller's shop-window aroused in him a feeling of distaste? Towards the end of this week Clarice called upon Mrs.
To return in this rambling letter to the subject I set out with, let me recommend my friend, Mr. Clarice, to your acquaintance and good offices; his worth entitles him to the one, and his gratitude will merit the other. I long much to hear from you. Adieu! Robertson, uncle to Mr. CLXVL To MR. THOMAS SLOAN. ELLISLAND, Sept. 1st, 1791.
It was as though all sound, all motion had been arrested by some enchantment, and in the midst of that silence one word was launched down the street. 'Drake! The announcement of the numbers was lost in the sudden renewal of conflicting shouts. Clarice made no effort to ascertain them. That one word 'Drake' filled the world for her.
The ashes of the fire at the camp were there, but the fire itself had long been extinguished. Clarice and Rachel must have left the spot some time before! We searched about in every direction, but could find no traces of their having been there lately, and our eyes were not sufficiently sharp to distinguish the signs which would have enabled an Indian to say in what direction they had gone.
Le Mesurier felt driven back upon the actual point of his explanation, and almost compelled to fine his words down to just the needful quantity. 'Clarice, I believe, he said brusquely, 'means to ask you how Gorley died. He was engaged to her. Drake did not so much as stir a muscle, even his eyes maintained their steadiness, and Mr. Le Mesurier drew a breath of relief.
He had had a stormy but tender parting with Clarice, whose efforts to act the forsaken Ariadne were somewhat marred by her irrepressible pride in her lover's prospects, and whose last word had charged him to bring her back one of the rare lap-dogs bred by the monks of Bologna.
A steady, cool, vivifying breeze from the bay swept across the wharf and fanned all the idlers, and blew out of their heads almost all recollection of the furnacelike heat of the town. Cordelia forgot her desire to display her conquest. She forgot her true self. She likened the wharf to that "lordly veranda overlooking the sea," where the future Mayor begged Clarice to be his bride.
Word Of The Day