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Pompey overtook him near the Euphrates, and encamped over against him; but fearing he might pass the river unperceived, he drew out his troops at midnight. At that time Mithridates is said to have had a dream prefigurative of what was to befall him.
"I brought you to our cottage," returned Bob. "You lay unconscious on the rocks." "It is the work of Providence," murmured the sufferer. "I was on my way hither when the storm overtook the Mary Lee. I I a drink I am fainting!" Water with brandy was brought and the man revived a little. He glared strangely at Mrs. Cromwell. "I must speak quickly, for I am dying I know it, feel it.
What did she think of him? The possibility that she might leave Dyea before answering those questions spurred him into a gait that devoured the miles. But when he turned into the main street of the town his haste vanished and a sudden embarrassment overtook him. What would he say to her, now that he was here? How would he excuse or explain his obvious pursuit? Would she see through him?
The Vice-President and I remained concealed until the two women were well out of sight, when we overtook White, who was slowly toiling down the road. I received the satchel containing the money from him. From the time he received the money until he handed it over to me, I had had my eye on him not exactly because I did not trust him, but I thought it wrong to lead the poor fellow into temptation.
I was afraid they might not; and we overtook William Goulding in his curricle, so I was determined he should know it, and so I let down the side-glass next to him, and took off my glove, and let my hand just rest upon the window frame, so that he might see the ring, and then I bowed and smiled like anything." Elizabeth could bear it no longer.
There had been uneasiness on different occasions, when our power seemed imperilled by the disasters which overtook us in Afghanistan in 1841-42, and by the life and death struggle we had afterwards with the Sikhs. Our enemies were then watching for our fall, and the reasons for uneasiness at those times were stronger than the community generally were aware of.
Some of that dust for a moment overtook and hid the Indian, walking stolidly in its track, but he emerged from it at an angle, with a quickened pace and a peculiar halting trot. Yet that trot was so well sustained that in an hour he had reached a fringe of rocks and low bushes hitherto invisible through the irregularities of the apparently level plain, into which he plunged and disappeared.
Eva was breathing heavily when she emerged from the forest and stopped to wait until Sister Perpetua had finished her prayer in the chapel and overtook her.
The first time I ever knew my mother had a brother, I was driving up the cows, and a tall, good-looking man overtook me in the road and asked where my father lived. I remember I told him, 'At home. He thought it was impudence, but it was ignorance. However, he was quite communicative and friendly.
"Go," said Ravenel, softly. "Didn't you see? She wants you." John overtook the dainty figure, lifted his military cap, and slackened his pace. "Miss Fannie?" he caught step with her. "Oh! why good morning." She was delightfully cordial. "Did you want to see me?" he asked. "Mr. Ravenel thought you did." Fannie raised her brows and laughed. "Why, really, Mr.
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