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Whom should he have selected but "'The Rose that all ad-mi-r-r-? "Clarence, what, in the fiend's name, do you mean? Whom has my father married?" demanded Mr. Fabian, starting up and staring at his younger brother. "Mrs. Rose Flowers Stillwater," replied Mr. Clarence, staring back. Mr. Fabian dropped back in his chair, while every vestige of color left his face. "Why, Fabian! Fabian!
She drew her figure up proudly, and her lips curled like a beautiful fiend's. "He should bury the disgraceful secret, if he had it, in his heart, and carry it to his grave. He would not cry out like a boy with a cut finger." "Precisely, Miss Sandford. And for that reason you would be no mate for me. My wife must have no skeletons in her closet."
For this there is needed one thing, and that a firm and quiet simplicity. He would do nothing till his mind was quiet. The friend of God must be as a little child, as the gospel tells us, and when the soul is quiet there is no difficulty in knowing what must be done. The first business then of a solitary's life is to preserve this quiet against the fiend's assaults and disquiet.
I remembered the fiend's words, "I shall be with you on your wedding night," and if I had thought what might be the devilish intention of my adversary I would never have consented. But thinking it was only my own death I was preparing I agreed with a cheerful countenance. Elizabeth seemed happy, and I was tranquil.
His tall, erect figure was at present wrapped in a loose chamber gown, secured around him by his buff belt, in which was suspended his richly hilted poniard. Lord Crawford laid his book somewhat peevishly aside upon the entrance of these unexpected visitors, and demanded, in his broad national dialect, what, in the foul fiend's name, they lacked now.
He was looking at them through a gap in some undergrowth that hid most of his body, but showed his head and shoulders plainly, and as he stood there watching them his face was like a fiend's. "Walter," the general shouted, and to his son Rupert he said: "The boy's ill." Walter moved forward from among the trees.
"'Mistress has gone clean 'stracted, began the African, 'because young Miss Caroline "'What of her? speak out, in the fiend's name! exclaimed Captain Edwards, evincing much greater emotion than he had hitherto betrayed. "'You stop me, sir; I must tell my story in my own way, replied Pompey.
He called up the Universal and asked to be put through to the apartment of Madame Boleski, and soon heard Harietta's voice. It was a little anxious and yet insolent too. "Yes? Is that you Stepan! Darling Brute! What do you want?" "You cannot you come and dine with me to-night alone?" His voice was honey sweet, with a spontaneous, frank ring in it, only his face still looked as a fiend's.
"Say you so?" cried Surrey; "then you are most fortunately encountered, Sir Thomas, for I myself, as Richmond will tell you, am equally bent upon the fiend's expulsion. We will be companions in the adventure." "We will speak of that anon," replied Wyat. "I was sorry to find this cottage uninhabited, and the fair damsel who dwelt within it, when I beheld it last, gone. What has become of her?
"Skinner! In the fiend's name, spare us this alliteration and humbug," Cappy fairly shrieked. "You're driving me crazy. If it isn't platitude, it's your dog-gone habit of initialing things!" He placed his old elbows on his knees and bowed his head in his hands. "If I'm not the original Mr. Tight Wad!" he lamented. "But you must forgive me, Matt.
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