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The Easterner poured his story and appeal for help into the ears of the girl at the other end of the line, and then for a few moments there was silence in the room as he listened to her reply.
At such moments I have to avoid his eyes lest anything should happen, for my great love seems to be always lying in wait to break down my make-believe. How glorious!" "Then why are you crying?" he asked. "Oh, good gracious, that's nothing for me," I answered. But if I am throwing dust in Martin's eyes I am deceiving nobody else, it seems. To-night after he and Dr.
In a few moments the signal was passed on to the Tompion by means of a flashlamp, the rays of which were invisible save from the direction of the receiver. "Very good," was the cruiser's reply. "Carry on." A little later the general order was flashed in to the convoy. "Increase speed to seventeen knots."
Again, therefore, I put to myself the question: "Do I, or do I not love her?" and again I could return myself no answer or, rather, for the hundredth time I told myself that I detested her. I swear that, had there, at such moments, been a sharp knife ready to my hand, I would have seized that knife with pleasure, and plunged it into her breast.
The special point of originality in Jesus was his conception of Deity. As Strauss well says, "He conceived of God, in a moral point of view, as being identical in character with himself in the most exalted moments of his religious life, and strengthened in turn his own religious life by this ideal.
The general perused it carefully and then remained silently thoughtful for some moments. "I wish I could do what our countryman asks," he finally said, "but I do not see how I can. To send a force out nearly fifty miles, even for such a service, would be overstepping the purpose for which I am here.
In a few moments the walls were scaled, the streets flooded with the foe, the pavements covered with the dead, and the city on fire in an hundred places. The conquerors did not wish to encumber themselves with captives. All were slain. Laden with booty and crimsoned with the blood of their foes, the victors dispersed in every direction, burning and destroying, but encountering no resistance.
With gigantic force he got Sayers' head down, and heedless of his captive's pounding, backed step by step to the ring. When there, he forced Sayers' neck on to the rope, and, with all his weight, leant upon the Englishman's shoulders. In a few moments the face of the strangled man was black, his tongue was forced out of his mouth, and his eyes from their sockets.
Edwards did so and a few moments later both stood dripping on land. "Now where to, sir?" asked Edwards. "We'll have to hunt up Lord Hastings. He's gone to make his report to the British authorities. By inquiring a bit we should have no trouble finding him." The lad was right. A subordinate officer directed them to the quarters of General Hamilton, where Jack felt sure he would find his commander.
There had been moments when his doom seemed certain he knew and she knew that if he once got drunk again he would fall never to rise.
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