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The long-forgotten communiqués of that early period of the war reported success after success, until at last it was announced that the victorious French armies had reached Sarrebourg and Morhange, and were astride the Strassburg-Metz Railroad. And then Berlin took up the cry, and France and the world learned of a great German victory and of the defeat and rout of the invading army.
Even in the government lottery the first prize must needs fall to him; the long-forgotten ticket lay buried somewhere in a drawer under other papers, and not till three months after the drawing did he bring it out, and claim the unhoped-for hundred thousand gulden, like one who hardly cares for such a trifle. The world admired him all the more.
She started and turned pale. "I knew that you were here," she said. I sat down beside her and took her hand. A long-forgotten tremor ran through my veins at the sound of that dear voice. She gazed into my face with her deep, calm eyes. Mistrust and something in the nature of reproach were expressed in her glance. "We have not seen each other for a long time," I said.
"Ah, Mr. Holton!" said Miss 'Lethe, bowing to him as the Colonel, plainly not too greatly pleased by the necessity for doing so, advanced toward him with extended hand. "What brings you all up here?" asked Holton, after the greetings had been said. "We came up to see Frank and the beauties of his long-forgotten land," Miss 'Lethe answered, in her softly charming voice.
"With kind regards, ever, my dear Trollope, "Your affectionate friend, And those were the last words I ever had from him! In those days temporibus illis, as the historians of long-forgotten centuries say there used to be a very general exodus of the English colony at Florence to the baths of Lucca during the summer months.
It was a husband's lamentation over a dead wife: "O Sophronia! dear Sophronia! thou mayest live? Thou shalt live!" How eloquently did that rough, faded scrawl, over a long-forgotten grave, speak of the human fear that perhaps his wife was lost to him for ever "Thou mayest live?" and of the noble faith that triumphed over it "Thou shalt live!"
In a twinkling, memory had swept the dust from my little cabinet picture, and let in upon it a sudden light. The ten intervening years vanished like a dream, and that long-forgotten garden scene started up, vivid as in the hour when it actually passed before my eyes. The clue to that mystery which had so spellbound my childish fancy was at length found.
The dissolution of an ancient confederacy restored to the independent tribes their peculiar but long-forgotten appellation. A victorious state often communicated its own name to a vanquished people.
Just that moment, a dim, untraceable association of ideas drew her back until she was face-to-face with a long-forgotten incident in her very-little girlhood. Once upon a time, there had been a moment when she had experienced much the same sort of feeling she had now the feeling of wanting to cry out and run away. As a matter of fact, she had cried out and run away. Why, and from what?
His gray hairs are records of the past, and his grayer eyes are Sybils of the future. The cabin floor was thickly strewn with strange, iron-clasped folios, and mouldering instruments of science, and obsolete long-forgotten charts.
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