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The princess, to whom she was extremely dear, could not think of parting with her without an extreme concern, but after the reasons he had given for desiring it, would offer nothing for detaining her, on which she was immediately called in, and made acquainted with this sudden alteration in her affairs. The parting of Horatio and mademoiselle Charlotta, and what happened after she left St.
"I did send to him," snapped Sir Godfrey. "And he cometh?" said Perrote, eagerly for her. "No." Sir Godfrey tried to pass her with that monosyllable, but Perrote was not to be thus baffled. She laid a detaining hand upon his arm. "Sir, I pray you, for our Lord's love, to tell me what word came back from my Lord Duke?" Our Lord's love was not a potent factor in Sir Godfrey's soul.
"Was it prudent in Major Gladwin to allow Pontiac and his chiefs to leave, after they had come into the fort with an intent to murder him and his men?" said Henry Campbell. "Would not the major have been justified in detaining them?" "I certainly think he would have been, and so did my uncle, but Major Gladwin thought otherwise.
Steps are now being taken to prove Miss Lynch a lunatic, as every one here knows she unfortunately is; and, as sure as you stand there, you'll have to answer for detaining her; and you're much mistaken if you think you'll get hold of her property, even though she were to marry your son, for, I warn you, she's not her own mistress, or able to be so."
The lightning flashes came faster and faster and closer together; the thunder-roll was almost continuous, not stopping for a moment a new crash beginning before the old one had ceased. Adam kept looking up in the direction where the kite strained and struggled at its detaining cord, but, of course, the dull evening light prevented any distinct scrutiny.
"Now, my good fellow," said the old gentleman, addressing the negro whose prisoner he now was "you had better instantly unbind me, and suffer me to take my departure from this infernal trap. Give me my liberty, and I will pay you ten times the sum that your Jew friend can afford to give you for detaining me here. What say you?"
By this railway the great obstacle in the way of the trade of the Tennessee valley, the muscle shoals, will be avoided, whilst, at a fair calculation, it is expected that the increase of cotton received into Mobile will amount to one hundred thousand bales: besides a vast quantity of pork, beef, bacon, flour, lard, whisky, &c. that now seeks a market at New Orleans, through those great natural channels, the Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers: to the navigation of the first-named river the shoals have hitherto been a serious drawback, detaining laden craft of all kinds for weeks, and even months, until, late in winter or early in spring, a rise in the river enabled them to float over into the highway of the Western world, the Mississippi.
In the corridor Greig laid a detaining hand on Britz's elbow. "Why lieutenant " he gasped, "that was a photograph of Herbert Whitmore." "Precisely," said Britz. "And we're going to hop on board the next train for Atlanta." Three days later Britz and Greig returned from Atlanta. It had been a tiresome journey, fifty-five hours of the seventy-two having been spent in a Pullman coach.
And breaking away from her detaining arm, he ran down to the verge of the pond, and claimed the skates which he had lent to John. Henrietta turned away her eyes full of tears. "Never mind, Henrietta," shouted the good-natured Alexander, "I'll engage to fish him out if he goes in." "It is as likely I may fish you out, Mr. Alex," returned Fred, slightly affronted.
Softly now, or " Barnes laid a firm, detaining hand on the man's shoulder. "See here, Sprouse," he whispered, "it's all very well for you, knocking men over like this, but just what is your object? What does all this lead up to? We can't go on forever slugging and binding these fellows. There is a house full of them up there. What do we gain by putting a few men out of business?"
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