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Suddenly a man came running from the wood, pale and anxious, saying, as he hastened by for help, "Blasted tree fell on him! Bleed to death before the doctor comes!" "Who? who?" cried the startled trio. But the man ran on, with some breathless reply, in which only a name was audible "Basset." "The deuce it is!" and Randal dropped his pencil, while the girls sprang up in dismay.

These two days I been pourin' out a spoonful of her medicine every two hours time she ought to take it and a-throwin' it away. It's a dreadful waste. But I got to do something to make the doctor think she's took it. It makes him so mad when she don't." Miss Dorcas exclaimed in dismay. "Aren't you afraid the child will die if she doesn't take the medicine?" "Yessum, I am.

Next morning, when the school assembled, William did not make his appearance. I became alarmed lest his headache had increased, or been the forerunner of some other complaint, and I therefore hastened in search of him; when, to my great dismay, I found his room empty, and the bed evidently bearing the appearance of never having been slept in.

Veronique, however, was missing; but anxious to lose no time, she had taken off her delicate white satin farthingale to change it for an unobtrusive dark woolen kirtle, when, to her surprise and dismay, a loud creaking, growling sound made itself heard outside the door at the other end.

"Yes, you booby, I did." "Well, now, I do declare," cried Prose, with dismay, "if I haven't lost five pounds." The vessel ran under the stern of the frigate, and requested a boat to be sent on board, as she had intelligence to communicate.

It has likewise been seen how the very domestics fled from Bannerworth Hall in dismay, rather than remain beneath the same roof with a family believed to be subject to the visitations of so awful a being as a vampyre.

'There, what have I done? exclaimed Miss Vincent in dismay. 'But I had only just got the letter, and had barely glanced through it. 'Besides, who would have thought of Mysie having any secrets? said Gillian. 'After all, I suppose no harm is done; for you can't have any other connection with these Mays.

Red, I can't figure you," protested Neale. "Pard, I reckon I'm fur enough back east right heah," said Larry, significantly. A light dawned upon Neale. "Red! You've done something bad!" exclaimed Neale, in genuine dismay. "Wal, I don't know jest how bad it was, but it shore was hell," replied Larry, with a grin. "Red, you aren't afraid," asserted Neale, positively.

Their answers were directed 'To the Most Reverend the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Great Britain, our dearest brothers, and, somewhat to the dismay of the Nonjurors, copies of the letters were even sent by the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Archbishop Wake. Above all, the proposals were essentially one-sided.

The number of his serfs was ten thousand, and his rule over them was even less disputed than theirs over their domestic animals. The inhabitants of the place had noticed with dismay that the slumber-flag had not been hoisted on the castle, although it was half an hour after the usual time. So rare a circumstance betokened sudden wrath or disaster, on the part of Prince Alexis.