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The shark, enraged at seeing that he was about to be altogether disappointed of his prey, made one desperate spring, and tore asunder the body of the noble-hearted little boy, while his father and the fainting child in his arms were saved.
He was only a skeleton, and his fainting even in so short a flight was no cause for wonder. Gradually he revived, coughed and sat up. "I fell," he said. "It was because I was so weak. What has happened? Are we not moving?" His eyes were yet dim, and he was not more than half conscious. "You are with us, your friends. You remember?" said Henry.
He had no wish to discourage Reuther whose feeling was one of relief as her first word showed. "Oliver is gone. We shall not have to hurry now and perhaps if I had a few minutes in which to rest " She was on the verge of fainting again. And then Alanson Black showed of what stuff he was made.
A day or two afterwards, three quails were caught in the public square, and the commandant improved the circumstance by many quaint homilies. The number three, he observed, was typical of the Holy Trinity, which had thus come symbolically to their relief. The Lord had sustained the fainting Israelites with quails.
He fell fainting forward, and I was unable to move till Tezila, who had hastily put on a dress, ran to my assistance together with Thelamis, the young noble of whom the Prince had spoken. 'As soon as we were all ourselves again we began to bewail our fate, and the journey that we were to take that very day to Constantinople.
We had never seen each other, but when I mentioned my name and said I was anxious to have news of Mrs. Christopherson, she led me into a sitting-room, and began to talk confidentially. She was a good-natured Yorkshirewoman, very unlike the common London landlady. 'Yes, Mrs. Christopherson had been taken ill two days ago. It began with a long fainting fit.
Here was a strange sail, who had not even shown her number, taken aback in stays, and on her beam-ends in a squall. Seymour knew nothing about fainting. It was impossible to act so in this case; and Seymour, as he bent over the beautiful pale countenance of Emily, felt that he never could be tired of holding her in his arms.
John Norton sneered at the tortures of Brend, and brazenly defended his tormentor; but the Boston mob succored the victim as lie lay fainting on the boards of his dark cell. The Rev.
As soon as he had read it he seated himself in a chair, leaning his cheek on his hand in the attitude of one deep in thought, without taking any part in the efforts that were being made to recover his bride from her fainting fit.
He wondered how they got there, for he knew he had left them in his room; but what was his horror when he saw the form of the fainting girl lying where she had dropped, as still and white as if she had been dead.
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