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Suffering severely myself, I saw clouds gathering and rising around a happy household that for a time drew me from the depths of my own affliction in the vain effort to solace their woes. Father and son and infant in one house, wife and imbecile daughter in another, at last fell at one dread swoop.
The morning lights sprayed upon them as they went hither and thither gathering flowers dew-drenched hyacinths, elastic wire- strung bluebells the colour of the sky when the dry east wind blows, the first great red bushes of the ling. Now it is a known fact that, in order properly to gather flowers, the collectors must divide and so quarter the ground.
The news of the violation of Luxembourg and Belgian territory created less sensation than one might have expected. In the circumstances news of any kind seemed a blessing. There was still quite a gathering in front of the town hall when the first carts began to return from the revision. They were few and far between, compared with the double line that had driven past in the morning.
Tell me of your life since I left you. Something in your face tells me that it has been well spent. Let me hear of it." And, gathering up all her courage, she told him.
"I don't care to go into any further details, because some of you well-meaning friends of mine might suggest to Mr. ahem ha well, never mind his name that he should return the pepper-pot, and I know that that is what he would do if he were familiar with the facts that I have just narrated." It was at about this point that the gathering broke up, and, after our cigars, Holmes and I left the club.
"What! at the first misfortune that strikes you, and this is the first real misfortune of your life, Maxence, you despair. An obstacle rises, and, instead of gathering all your energy to overcome it, you sit down and weep like a woman. Who, then, is to inspire courage in your mother and in your sister, if you give up so?"
But Mary removed the towel and said: "Now ain't you ashamed, Tom. You mustn't be so bad. Water won't hurt you." Tom was a trifle disconcerted. The basin was refilled, and this time he stood over it a little while, gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began.
He had been ordered out from Ghent to oppose a force of Malcontents which was gathering in the neighbourhood of Courtray; but he swore that he would not leave the gates so long as two of the gentlemen whom he had arrested on the twenty-eighth of the previous October, and who yet remained in captivity, were still alive. These two prisoners were ex-procurator Visch and Blood-Councillor Hessels.
Of all horrible sounds, a mob of excited Frenchmen can make the worst. The wind in a storm at sea is nothing to it." There was a man gathering peaches from the sunny wall of a garden-house by the river. Janey finished her tale, and remarked that here fruit could be bought.
There could be seen Negroes gathering the coffee-crop, though coffee was seldom seen in the establishment, not twenty cups of that beverage being served in the month. Colonial products were of so little account in the consumption of the place that if a stranger had asked for a cup of chocolate Socquard would have been hard put to it to serve him.
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