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He rose haggard with the struggle, but languid and resigned, like one whose death-warrant has been read. "Sir," said he, "there is but one way. You must take her home; and I shall stay here." "Leave you all alone on this island!" said Helen. "Never! If you stay here, I shall stay to comfort you." "I decline that offer. I am beyond the reach of comfort."
He was one of the court that tried King Charles, and his signature is upon the king's death-warrant. He was a spendthrift, and afterwards had a quarrel with Cromwell, who denounced him as an unbeliever, and even as a buffoon. When Charles II. made the proclamation of amnesty, Marten surrendered, but he was tried and condemned to death.
He praised me, he thanked me, he blessed me; but he left me. It was a beautiful letter, but it was the death-warrant of my heart. I was abandoned." Ashmead started up and walked very briskly, with a great appearance of business requiring vast dispatch, to the other end of the salle; and there, being out of Ina's hearing, he spoke his mind to a candlestick with three branches. "D n him!
In the great left-handed combat he appeared to be looking at the audience half the time, instead of carving his adversaries; and when he had slain all the sophomores and was dallying with the freshman, he stooped and snatched a bouquet as it fell, and offered it to his adversary at a time when a blow was descending which promised favorably to be his death-warrant.
It was the body of Chelteux. "A fitting close to the career of such a wretch," said the Journal des Debats, in noting the event. When she read this news, Mme. Blanche felt as a culprit would feel on reading his death-warrant. "The end is near," she murmured. "Lacheneur is coming!" The duchess was not mistaken.
He did not speak; not a question came from his lips; but he listened as though my next word might be the death-warrant to his hopes. 'Max, do not look like that: there is no cause for fear. It is a great secret, and you must never speak of it, even to me, but Lady Betty is engaged to her cousin Claude. For a moment he stared at me incredulously.
He panted and quivered and was as pale as ashes, and said, "No, no, it's a death-warrant; I can not;" and his trembling hand tried to convey the note-book back to his pocket, but it fell from his shaking fingers, and Monckton took it up and quietly tore the leaf out, and took it across to Burnley, in spite of a feeble gesture the struggling wretch made to detain him.
And then I felt some one take me by the shoulder, and heard a grim voice within me say, "Come! Come!" Oh, it will be all right, never fear! Never yet have I failed to do what I resolved to do. And thou world, thou wouldst have me thy slave; but I am no man's slave not I! My death-warrant is ready. I go for it to-morrow. June 6th.
"It is done" said she, almost inaudibly. "What! The queen wears the rosette?" asked Gardiner vivaciously. "She wears the rosette, and will give it to him." "And the note is in it?" "It is concealed under the diamond clasp." "Oh, then she is lost!" muttered Gardiner. "If the king finds this paper, Catharine's death-warrant is signed." "Hush!" said Lady Jane. "See! Lord Hertford is coming toward us.
I think he oologizes. He steals the corn from under the noses of my poultry. But what would you have? He will come down upon the limb of the tree I am lying under till he is within a yard of me. He and his mate will scurry up and down the great black-walnut for my diversion, chattering like monkeys. Can I sign his death-warrant who has tolerated me about his grounds so long?
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