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"I won it, God forgive me," said Jack, a deep flush of shame overspreading his face, "and I now come to return what I had no right to win." A sound from the dying man attracted their attention at that moment. "He wants to speak to you," said Jacob, who had stooped down to listen.
Bobby sprang to that door and threw it open, and Trimmer, who had been secretly trembling all through the interview, turned to him with a quick pallor overspreading his face, a pallor which Bobby saw and despised and ignored, and which turned his first mad impulse. "I'd like to ask one favor of you, Mr. Trimmer," said he.
It was in an advanced state of decomposition, and they hurried the process by the light of a bright solitary star, whose flickering rays pierced through the overspreading branches and fell upon the ghastly countenance of the murdered man. While thus occupied, they were startled by the sound of breaking twigs, as if some one were slowly approaching; whispering voices were also heard.
Then came glimmerings of hope precious promises saving him from despair followed by the shadow of death overspreading his soul, and involving him in midnight darkness.
Erelong the darkness will pass away entirely, and the regions of the East will become completely illumined; enmity, hatred, ignorance and bigotry will no longer remain; the satanic powers which destroy human equality and religious unity will be dethroned, and the nations will dwell in peace and harmony under the overspreading banner of the oneness of humanity.
But there was an expression of sadness overspreading his features, and a pensive tone in his address, indicating that he was a man who had seen affliction. The splendid steed from which De Soto had alighted was restlessly pawing the ground at a short distance from the tent of the Inca, attracting the particular attention and admiration of the sovereign.
Among the earliest and most observant were a succession of Franciscan friars, sent after 1245 on missionary journeys to the court of the ruler of the great Tartar Empire, which was then so rapidly overspreading Asia and eastern Europe. The first of these was John de Piano Carpini, a native of Naples, who belonged to a Franciscan house near Perugia.
The evident object of this treatise was to aid Christian efforts, under the Divine blessing, in stemming the torrent of iniquity, which, like an awful flood, was overspreading this country.
It is thus that insinuating, overspreading, domineering cares quench both hope and holiness: they hinder the simple, tender, confiding look unto Jesus which is necessary to the increase or maintenance of spiritual life.
Sparling kept away, but a pair of eyes representing him was peering through a pin-hole in the canvas stretched across the main opening where the ticket takers stood when at work. "That's great, kid! Great, you bet!" shouted Mr. Kennedy after a successful trial of their new apparatus. With light heart, an expansive grin overspreading his countenance, the lad ran to the cook tent for his supper.
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