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"I only hope he won't have craft enough to make Eleanor forget herself and her position." "Do you mean marry him?" said he, startled out of his usual demeanour by the abruptness and horror of so dreadful a proposition. "What is there so improbable in it? Of course that would be his own object if he thought he had any chance of success.
She thought the right thing for a girl to do who had lost all her chances in life was to lie down and cry all night. But she was surprised to find that she felt strangely light hearted. All the dreadful weight of the past week had been removed. She could not think about her own loss, so joyous was she over the thought that Sandy was going after all.
I can't ask anybody if there is bad news for Germany, for it would be a most dreadful insult even to suggest there could be bad news. Besides, I feel as if I somehow were mixed up in whatever it is. Bernd hasn't been since this morning. I shall go round to Frau Berg tomorrow and ask her if I can have my old room. But oh, little beloved mother, I feel torn in two!
If you've never had the measles, dear Billy Bunny, don't get them, for they are dreadful things for there's so many of them. "Please give my love to Mr. Lucky Lefthindfoot and tell him as soon as I'm well, I'll be back in his circus. "Your friend, "Elly."
He knelt, even, and begged them, with tears, not to take him away from his dear master, who had brought him from the dreadful South, and been so kind to him.
If the comparatively few instances of these political tortures which occurred among the Iroquois are compared with the awful list of similar and worse inflictions which stain the annals of the most enlightened nations of Europe and Asia, ancient and modern, the crucifixions, the impalements, the dreadful mutilations lopping of hands and feet, tearing out of eyes the tortures of the rack and wheel, the red-hot pincers, the burning crown, the noisome dungeon, the slow starvation, the lingering death in the Siberian mines, it will become evident that these barbarians were far inferior to their civilized contemporaries in the temper and arts of inhumanity.
Soon, however, I hope that you will be able to come to her and me. Yet, in these dreadful times who can tell what may happen?
Campbell was much obliged to him for his attention to her son, who was very unwell, entirely from the effects of clotted cream. And while they were still laughing over the scored words, Anna knocked at the door with a message from her aunt, to ask whether they could come and speak to poor Mrs. Edgar, who was in a dreadful state. "It is not about Adrian, I hope?" said she.
She said to him, while he looked at her as though he would read her through and through, though his mind was occupied with a dreadful possibility beyond her: "Why do you look so? You are stern. You are critical. Have I disimproved so?" The words were full of a sudden and natural womanly fear, that something in herself had fallen in value.
Expectation was at the highest, confidence hourly increasing, success all but certain, when in the midst of all this high-bounding hope the dreadful rumor spread that O'Malley was no more.
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