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Updated: May 26, 2025
Still there was much of that more innocent picturesque merriment which is never wanting among a people with quick animal spirits and sensitive organs: there was not the heavy sottishness which belongs to the thicker northern blood, nor the stealthy fierceness which in the more southern regions of the peninsula makes the brawl lead to the dagger-thrust.
He was exceedingly kind to me, though there were times already when I fancied . . ." She hesitated more markedly this time and the blush became deeper on her cheeks. I groaned aloud. "Surely he is too old," I suggested. "Much too old," she assented emphatically. Once more I would have screamed with joy had not a sharp pang, like a dagger-thrust, shot through my heart. "But the nephew, eh?"
If you were a young man, conte, I should be silent regarding her charms but your white hairs inspire one with confidence. I assure you solemnly, though Fabio was my friend, and an excellent fellow in his ways, he was never worthy of the woman he married!" "Indeed!" I said, coldly, as this dagger-thrust struck home to my heart. "I only knew him when he was quite a boy.
At the very moment when De Marsay was forgetting all, and conceiving the desire to appropriate this creature forever, he received in the midst of his joy a dagger-thrust, which Paquita, who had lifted him vigorously in the air, as though to contemplate him, exclaimed: "Oh, Margarita!" "Margarita!" cried the young man, with a roar; "now I know all that I still tried to disbelieve."
"Before the hour?" "Oh yes. We had to wait for Ivan Veliki to stop striking as I was calling out an order to my servant." "Are you sure that they were all here then?" Only now, for the first time, a thought that was like a dagger-thrust shot through Ivan. He wondered if the officer saw the color leave his face.
Howbeit so doleful a fellow was by no means pleasing in my brother's eyes, and so he right plainly gave him to understand; then the Bohemian called to mind their former friendship, and entreated him to put himself in his place and not to forget that he, as a man sound of limb, would have avenged the scorn put on him by Rochow in fair fight instead of with a dagger-thrust.
"Very well," said he; "I shall accompany you; and the adventure appears to me so wonderful, that I shall carry the torch myself." And saying these words, he girded on a short sword, placed a pistol in his belt, disclosing in this movement, which opened his doublet a little, the fine rings of a coat of mail, destined to protect him from the first dagger-thrust of an assassin.
Just as Ephraim and Miriam reached the shore she shrieked aloud a rude hand had torn the gold serpent from her ear. The cry pierced the youth's heart like a dagger-thrust and his cheeks paled, for he recognized Kasana. The bodies beside her were those of her nurse and the wife of the chief priest Bai.
Your acute intelligence will then despise the generous feeling and kindliness which do honour to you, but in me would be out of place. Eh bien! this morning René Cardillac is found murdered by a dagger-thrust, no one is by him except his workman, Olivier Brusson and the daughter.
But Paula you must understand that Paula had nothing, positively nothing whatever to do with the stealing of the emerald." Orion, kneeling there, was condemned to hear every word the little girl so vehemently whispered, and each one pierced his heart like a dagger-thrust.
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