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He was too ill to call her "Louise." "I shall make some tea soon," she answered. He went on: "You remember about that missing money I mean before auntie died. You remember " "Don't talk about that, dear," she interrupted him eagerly. "Why should you bother about that now?" In one instant those apparently exhaustless reserves of moral force seemed to have ebbed away.
He looked up wistfully in my Uncle Toby's face, then cast a look upon his boy. Nature instantly ebbed again. The film returned to its place: the pulse fluttered, stopped, went on throbbed, stopped again moved, stopped . My Uncle Toby, with young Le Fevre in his hand, attended the poor lieutenant as chief mourners to his grave. Uncle Tom's Cabin
La Tour was disappointed in his application to Sir David Kirk, and, for a time, his tide of fortune seemed entirely to have ebbed. He again visited Boston, but did not meet with a very cordial reception, though a few merchants entrusted him with a considerable sum of money, on some private speculation.
But during the period of the American war the gold tide ebbed too swiftly, leaving high and dry not only diggers, but the thousand-and-one classes who were indirectly dependent upon the gold supply. The better portion of these found occupation on the land the richest in Australia, though neglected during the gold mania.
Their noses were proudly lifted high above the fetid atmosphere which rose from the offal-laden causeway below. They had no heed for that breeding ground of the germs of every disease known to the human body. Then the roystering throng. The Elysian Fields. It was the beach about which the tide ebbed and flowed.
He laughed and whistled and went often to Mrs. Light's; though Rowland knew not in what fashion present circumstances had modified his relations with Christina. The month ebbed away and Rowland daily expected to hear from Roderick that he had gone to Leghorn to meet the ship.
How often, in the olden time, thou used'st to say to thyself, as thou didst ride at the head of our glorious house, 'this charge may finish this matter, this battle must. They passed away, those gallant fights, and still the foe pressed on, and hope, too, slowly ebbed away, as the boundaries of our land grew less and less: behold this is the last wave but one or two, and then for a sad farewell to name and freedom.
"Tell him too that I shall never be any man's bride, now." She closed her eyes again and the colour slowly ebbed away. Molly stood, her black brows drawn, gazing down upon her in silence. Did she love him after all? Who can fathom the mystery of another's heart? "I will tell him," she answered at last. "Good-bye, Madeleine I shall never see you or speak to you again as long as I live."
There was no change in her calm demeanor. But Stephen, who knew his mother, felt that her little elation over her arrival had ebbed, Neither would confess dejection to the other. "I even I " said Stephen, tapping his chest, "have at least made the acquaintance of one prominent citizen, Mr. Eliphalet D. Hopper. According to Mr. Dickens, he is a true American gentleman, for he chews tobacco.
"No," she said, in a low tone, "I I will see him myself and at once." She sat quiet and thoughtful for the rest of the drive until the coach drew up before the Legation. After the first fear and despair had passed, a wave of happiness swept over her that made her blush and then pale as it ebbed.
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