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He is dead now, and I shall never marry. I certainly could not wed another less brave than he without harboring constantly a feeling of contempt for the relative cowardice of my husband. Do you understand me?" "Yes," he answered, with bowed head, his face mantling with the flush of shame. And it was the next day that the great calamity befell. The Treasure Vaults of Opar
A half hour later any casual observer, glancing over the deserted fields might have laughed at the intimation that the earth around him was harboring thousands of men armed to their teeth, and that pandemonium of hell would break loose within an hour. Barely a sound was audible, and a hush of expectancy descended upon us.
"He would not mingle with the 'foreign devils," Broderick smiled. "That was Chang Foo, who runs the Hall of Everlasting Fortune, wasn't it?" "Yes, the gambling house," Wong Lee answered. "A bad man," his voice sank to a whisper. "Chief of the Hip Lee tong, for the protection of the trade in slave women. He came, no doubt, to threaten me because I am harboring a Christian convert.
Mary Barrascale had reached a condition from which her contributions to the talk emerged in appalled gasps. Eleanor wheeled on her. "They can think what they jolly well like," she announced with a fine abandon of recklessness. Feeling like watchers beside a jury-room door, the two bridesmaids kept vigil, harboring contrary hopes.
Every Christian home should be a convent in miniature, filled with the same spirit, productive of the same virtues. It should be a cloister, forbidding entrance to the world and its vanities, and harboring within gentle peace and happiness.
"After all," he said, his lips meeting in the straight line of determination that she remembered so well, "I do wrong to ask aught of you. There may be nay, there is, risk in harboring me, Peggy. I must not get you into trouble. Is there not a barn where I could abide for the night?" "Thee would freeze in the barn to-night," she cried.
The floor could be acquitted, on sight, of harboring the quarry. Then he caught sight of the cupboard, and something seemed to tell him that there was the place to look. "Smith!" he said. Psmith had been reading placidly all the while. "Yes, sir?" "What is in this cupboard?" "That cupboard, sir?" "Yes. This cupboard." Mr. Downing rapped the door irritably. "Just a few odd trifles, sir.
She would have been glad to continue her protection to her brother, but the new government feared the power of Cromwell. Cromwell sent word to them that England would consider their harboring of the fugitive as tantamount to a declaration of war; so they notified Charles that he must leave their dominions, and find, if he could, some other place of retreat.
Miss Kit here tells me you've been harboring a fruit thief, and you've caught him." Kit's cheeks were bright red as she laid one hand on her father's shoulder. "Shad's got him right over in the corn-crib, Mr. Hicks. I haven't told father yet, because it might worry him. It isn't anything at all, Dad," she added, hurriedly.
His widow was now prosecuted for harboring two rebels the day after the battle of Sedgemoor; and Jefferies pushed on the trial with an unrelenting violence.
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