United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Leigh," said Captain Dyer, taking down his white handkerchief and in the bright moonlight I could see that his cheek was cut, and the handkerchief all bloody "Leigh, that was an unmanly blow. You called me a coward; you struck me; and now you try to poison the wound with your words.
She was a woman uniting intellectual faculties with strong ambitions of affection as well as intellect; and esteem thus substantially shown, at that early age, by two such men as Percy Shelley and Leigh Hunt, must have conveyed the deepest gratification. Throughout these communications Shelley evinced the strong pity that he felt for the unhappy being whom he had known.
"But to- night, for at least some hours, you must rest! Have patience with your own thoughts, dear friend! To part with earthly loves is a sorrow that must always be; Angela is young and you are old! she has her task to do, and yours is nearly finished! You must part with Aubrey Leigh, you cannot help him, his work is planned, his ways ordained.
Leigh, how should you like a vampyre in the pulpit?" "Hush, hush! can it be possible that you know so little of the works of that great Being whom you all pretend to adore, as to believe that he would create any class of beings of a nature such as those you ascribe to that terrific word! Oh, let me pray of you to get rid of these superstitions alike disgraceful to yourselves and afflicting to me."
He reached for his meerschaum pipe, and paused to gaze with a smoker's admiration at the red-brown perfection of the polished bowl. "But you have n't forgotten the dinner?" Leigh asked, perceiving that the other was preparing to settle back in his chair for one of those discursive talks in which his guests delighted. "The dinner! I had quite forgotten it."
Cowperwood wanted Relihan to approach the newspapers and see if he could not readjust their attitude so as to work to get him out, and he wanted Walter Leigh to head the movement of getting up a signed petition which should contain all the important names of moneyed people and others, asking the Governor to release him. Leigh agreed to this heartily, as did Relihan, and many others.
Thea Leigh, watching unobtrusively, had caught a glimpse of the strange dual influence at work in him. She had occasionally seen him with his mother; and had gleaned some idea of their unique relation; partly from Lance, partly from her intimate link with her own Theo, half a world away; nearly eighteen now, and eager to join up before all was over.
Leigh made no reply, but went about the rearrangement with swift artistic skill; while Jo, who had changed her mind about being in a hurry, slipped down stairs to the dining room again. At the doorway she discovered the undoing of her work. For a minute or two she watched the pair, then passed unnoticed up stairs again.
As for Lieutenant Leigh, I never once thought of giving him a bit of pity, for I did not think he deserved it. Well, the trooper started off at daybreak, so as to get well on his journey in the early morning; and about an hour after he was gone, I had a fancy to go into the old ruined room again, where there was the bit of a scene I've told you of.
What chestnut does the cat want us monkeys to pull out of the fire for him now, I wonder?" "Sir Richard Grenville is hardly accustomed to be called a monkey," said Mrs. Leigh. "I meant no harm; and his worship knows it, none better: but where is Raleigh going to send us, with a murrain?" "To Virginia.
Word Of The Day