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And he felt the parting too, felt it deeply; however, I am his confidential secretary, and it would never do for me to tell tales out of school. He clasped the little dog to his heart as he bid her farewell, and he promised her to send some keepsake in return which should show her how precious her love had been and it will be no trifle, that any one may swear who knows my master.
His heart was so exacerbated at parting from the girl that he could not face an inn, or even a household of the most humble kind; and entering a field he lay down under a wheatrick, feeling no want of food. The very heaviness of his soul caused him to sleep profoundly. The bright autumn sun shining into his eyes across the stubble awoke him the next morning early.
It was the romance of youth, a dream which they had shared together and from which, fortunately for both, they had awakened in time. And of course he realized, too, that the awakening had begun long, long before the actual parting took place. But nevertheless only three days had elapsed since that parting, and now What sort of a man was he? Was he like his father?
"Then I will get you an audience to-morrow afternoon, and mind, don't be afraid to speak to the governor when you see him." "Have no fear on that point," I replied, with a smile. "Then good-by until to-morrow; I'll send Murden for you when the governor is ready." The captain so far forgot his aristocracy that he actually extended his hand at parting, and shook our fists with a right good will.
She had left my side of our room untouched. It was in talking of our recent parting, and all that has come and gone in our lives, that the fancy came upon us of writing our biographies this winter. And here, in the dear old kitchen, round which the wild wind howls like music, with the dear boys dreaming at our feet, we bring them to an end.
The parting was brief, for the servants had brought news that the soldiers were becoming more and more clamorous; and were threatening to force an entrance, if the white man were not handed over to them. Bathalda and Roger left by a small door at the back of the house and, passing through the garden, took their way across the country.
Aren't we, Mary?" For several minutes Mary had been seeing things through a blur of tears, which came at the thought of what a long parting this might be. There was no telling when she would see Joyce again. It might be years. But she answered a resolute yes, and Joyce went on. "Why, we taught it even to Norman when he wasn't more than a baby.
But there were obvious limits to the silence if the line of procedure laid down by the King was to be followed. A parting and a meeting were to be arranged, a plan of campaign to be decided upon; and it struck La Mothe as curious that the man who scoffed at make-believe in a boy could yet seize upon make-believe for his own purposes.
Gregory was, on the following day, introduced to the various officers of Hicks Pasha's staff; and, on learning that he was married, the general asked him and his wife to dinner, to make the acquaintance of Lady Hicks, and the wives of three of his fellow officers. At last, the time came for parting.
And these are the people who, during a gleam of illusory sunshine yesterday, were so nonchalantly parting with their blood of which, by the by, your bread and cucumber eating, and cold water drinking Persian has little enough, and that little thin enough at any time.
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