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"Beg of me forgiveness on your deathbed, or on mine, and I'll not pardon you the words you have just spoken," thundered the officer; "and though you stand on the gallows itself I will not stir finger to save you. Once for all, Janice, take choice between us." "'T is an option you have no right to force upon me," responded the girl, desperately. "Ay, pay no heed to what he says, Jan.
"The son of Napoleon should be too great to serve as an instrument; and in events of that nature I wish not to be an advanced guard, but a reserve, that is, to come as a succour, recalling great memories." His death in 1832, on the 22d of July, the anniversary of the battle of Salamanca, solved many questions. Metternich visited the Duke on his deathbed: "It was a heartrending sight.
Having found in the solemn headmaster of the College Saint-Louis a tutor to whom my uncle delegated his authority, at the age of eighteen I had gone through all the classes; I left school as innocent as a seminarist, full of faith, on quitting Saint-Sulpice. My mother, on her deathbed, had made my uncle promise that I should not become a priest, but I was as pious as though I had to take orders.
"How did you know that Marshall had a will?" said my father. "I saw him write it," returned the Englishman, "here in this very room, on the eighteenth day of October, 1854." "That was two years ago," said my father. "Was the will here at Marshall's death?" "It was. He told me on his deathbed." "And it is gone now?" "It is," replied the Englishman. "And now, Mr.
Then Mrs Grantly told herself that her husband, should he live to be a hundred and fifty, would still be expressing his horror of Mrs Proudie, even on his deathbed. As soon as the letter from Mrs Arabin had reached Plumstead, the archdeacon and his wife arranged that they would both go together to the deanery.
There were some curious things said here especially about a melancholy deathbed at a place called Montreal which made the Preface almost as interesting as a story. But what was there in this to hurry the master out of the house, as if the devil had been at his heels? Doctor Benjulia's nearest neighbour was a small farmer named Gregg.
The possible explanation is that the Forest Hill property had really passed into the possession, by foreclosure, of the mortgagee, Sir Robert Pye, who sate for Woodstock in the Long Parliament, but that Mr. Powell, making his will on his deathbed, pleased himself with the fancy of leaving his son and heir an estate which was no longer his to dispose of.
On us, young, inexperienced and rash, has devolved their task; but the mantle of their power and virtue has not, alas! descended with that task to aid in its momentous accomplishment. General Lamarque's sun went down in clouds. Midnight, deeper than Egyptian darkness, brooded over the delirious deathbed of Lafayette. Armand Carrel fell without hope; and are we wiser than they?
'If a thing is worth beginning at all, then it is worth finishing, she would say; and this great principle followed her through her life in small things as in great. This was the reason that, on her deathbed, she could say, turning to the Chief of the Staff, 'I have no vain regrets about the past.
The mere literary man, or chronicler, was often flayed alive, but the dramatist, even though he dished up the foibles of a king, and without any dressing at that, was fêted and made as much of as a record piano player of to-day. One hears a lot about the deathbed scribblers in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but there was not much of that sort of thing in France.
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