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Updated: May 6, 2025
"It's no use talking," she said again and again, and the voice came from an empty-looking space between two pillars; "I never believed anything would happen, and now it has." "Well," said Gerald kindly, "can we do anything for you? Because, if not, I think we ought to be going." "Yes," said Jimmy; "I do want my tea!" "Tea!" said the unseen Mabel scornfully.
I I thought it was fun when they-all meant to take Burke alive, but now oh! now can't you see? they'll shoot and find out afterward! They may come any minute! I put the light out. Come, we must leave the cabin empty-looking like you had gone and hide!" The breathless whispering stopped and Truedale collected his senses in the face of this real danger. "But you you must not be here, Nella-Rose!"
However, it was not long before she realized that they had come out upon the shore of the island. There was a vast, empty-looking place before them, which Ruth knew must be the open lake. Where the sentinels had gone, she could not guess, unless Roberto had managed to drug them, too! However, there was not a word said, save when Roberto led her down, to the water and she felt it lave her feet.
In two strides he crossed the porch and, with fingers tightening about the butt of his Colt, he stared searchingly around the big, brightly-lighted, strangely empty-looking room. It held but a single occupant. Huddled in a chair on the further side of the long table was Mrs. Archer.
On that day when, the last of the British vessels having gone down the bay, with the last British soldier aboard, the strangely empty-looking town took on a holiday humour, and General Washington rode in by the Bowery lane, with a number of his officers, and a few war-worn troops to make up a kind of procession of entry, and the stars and stripes were run up at the Battery on that day of sadness, humiliation, and apprehension to those of us loyalists who had dared stay, I would have felt like cheering with the crowd, had Philip been one of those who entered.
When he showed off a few simple experiments to amuse her made crystal trees, a shower of snow, a heavy stone out of two empty-looking bottles, spilt mercury and set her to gather it up again, showed her prisms, and made her look through a bit of tourmaline, and in every way conceivable to him strewed the path of learning with flowers then she began to feel a little interest in the place and left off making wry faces at the dirt and the smells.
The monastery itself is a massive structure of hewn stone, surrounded by a high wall loop-holed for defence; attached to the wall inside is a long row of small rooms or cells, the habitations of the monks in more prosperous days; a few of them are occupied at present by the older men.; At 5.30 P.M., the bell tolls for evening service, and I accompany my guide into the monastery; it is a large, empty-looking edifice of simple, massive architecture, and appears to have been built with a secondary purpose of withstanding a siege or an assault, and as a place of refuge for the people in troublous times; containing among other secular appliances a large brick oven for baking bread.
Sylvia Bailey's lip quivered; she felt a wild wish to burst out laughing. It was all so absurd; this funny queer house; this odd, stuffy, empty-looking room; and this vulgar, common-looking woman asserting that she was descended from the famous Count Cagliostro! And then, to crown everything, the naïve, rather pathetic, attempt to get an extra five francs out of them.
And as you approach the town and as you leave it and as you walk through its streets, the broad calm empty-looking ones, or the narrow thoroughfares whose houses seem so near to each other, whether you climb or descend or cross bridges, or gaze at churches, or step out on your balcony at night to look at the mountains and the moon always it seems that from some point you can see it gazing down at you the citadel of Hohen-Salzburg.
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