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When his candle was about to expire the miner deliberately prepared himself for bed, and crawled in the bunk with his tiny guest, where he slept like the pup and the child, so soundly that nothing could suffice to disturb his dreams. The arrows of the sun itself, flung from the ridge of the opposite hills, alone dispelled the slumbers in the cabin.
Crichton then became the assailant; and pressed upon him with such force and agility, that he thrust him thrice through the body, and saw him expire: he then divided the prize he had won among the widows whose husbands had been killed.
'And what said Tingling-Tossing-Aching-Screaming-Scratching-Smarter? asked Miss Wren with an unspeakable enjoyment in the utterance of those honourable titles and in the recollection of the pepper. 'He held me to certain months of servitude, which were his lawful term of notice. They expire to-morrow. Upon their expiration not before I had meant to set myself right with my Cinderella.
I will expire in the midst of agonies without a groan! But these thoughts must be banished from my heart for ever. Wretched as I am, I am not permitted the consolation of penitence, I am not free to accuse and torment myself. No, that step has been taken which can never be repealed.
From whence it originated there was little difficulty in guessing, nor did many minutes expire before surmise was changed into certainty: for on turning a sudden angle in the road, and passing a small plantation, which obstructed the vision towards the left, the British and American armies became visible to one another.
"What's the matter?" he demanded, smiling, and rested one elbow on the table and looked enigmatically through the smoke of his cigar. "I was just wondering about you," said Miss Wheeler. Her voice, always faint, had dropped to a murmur which seemed to expire as it reached George's ear. "Why?" He was flattered. "I've been wanting to see you." "Really!" he laughed, rather too loudly.
Both the bounty upon the exportation of linen, and the exemption from the duty upon the importation of foreign yarn, which were granted only for fifteen years, but continued by two different prolongations, expire with the end of the session of parliament which shall immediately follow the 24th of June 1786.
Could you calmly stand by, and with utter sang froid see your brothers and sisters your own flesh and blood drift on every chance wave, like some sodden crust or withered weed on a stormy, treacherous sea? Would not your family pride bleed and die, and your self-respect wail and shrivel and expire?"
But the way to Inverary lay through almost impassable mountains, the season was extremely rigorous, and the whole country was covered with a deep snow. So eager, however, was Macdonald to take the oaths before the limited time should expire, that, though the road lay within half a mile of his own house, he stopped not to visit his family, and, after various obstructions, arrived at Inverary.
He found a purchaser for his property in his next door neighbor, who paid half down and gave him his note for the remainder, which would expire a year from date. He could not, try how he would, keep from feeling sad at leaving his American home and many friends: for Richard was himself again, and now saw, in its true light, his former foolishness.
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