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"She'll feel a lot better after that!" she remarked tersely, and the prophecy could not fail to be comforting to those who knew Mrs Hilliard's temperament. After such an outburst, repentance might be expected to set in even more speedily than usual, and a peace-offering in the shape of a hamper crowded with good things could be confidently looked for in the course of the next few days.
"Trust his destruction to me. We must use his talents and influence thrust him upon every danger make him our instrument while we are contending our peace-offering to the Senate if we fail our first victim if we succeed." "Hark! what noise was that?" "Somebody in the terrace lend me your dagger." Catiline rushed to the window. Zoe was standing in the shade. He stepped out.
And Tony meekly accepted the peace-offering. "You haven't smacked her," Jan remarked. Tony sighed. "It's too late now I don't feel like it any more." All the same he felt aggrieved as he set out to seek Earley in the kitchen garden. Earley was not to be found. He saw Mrs. Mumford already hanging kitchen cloths on a line in the orchard, but he felt no desire for Mrs. Mumford's society.
I determined, under the circumstances, and from the fact of our being such old friends she had said so herself, had she not? that I would make her a little peace-offering, in the shape of a present of some sort or other. This did not occur to me with the idea of propitiating her as an offended goddess, sacrifices being out of date in the existing era except those to Moloch!
The next day Hamlet brought her, as peace-offering, a slender gold flask curiously wrought in niello, which he had had filled with a costly odor at an apothecary's as he came along. "I never saw so lean a thing as that same culler of simples," said Hamlet, laughing; "a matter of ribs and shanks, a mere skeleton painted black. It is a rare essence, though.
The medicine-men assembled in all the bravery of their grotesque trappings, and the fires being lighted, a large quantity of wild sage and other aromatic herbs was thrown upon the flames, that their savory odors might ascend as a peace-offering to the Great Spirit.
It merely hissed feebly as I approached, and a moment later humbly laid at my feet a portion of the carrion which it had eaten a short time before a well-meant but not wholly appreciated peace-offering. Lessons to Be Learned. An infinite variety of interesting things may be learned by watching birds at their nests, or by a study of the nests themselves.
'So you would blow up my poor Mount Laurels for a peace-offering to the lower classes? 'I should hope to put it on a stronger foundation, Cecilia. 'By means of some convulsion? 'By forestalling one. 'That must be one of the new ironclads, observed Cecilia, gazing at the black smoke-pennon of a tower that slipped along the water-line. 'Yes? You were saying? Put us on a stronger ?
Foiled in this attempt, the husband soon after came again and induced her to permit him to stay the night with her, and to take away the child in the morning, under the promise of bringing it back next day; a promise which he failed to perform, and which rendered the lady so indignant, that, although he afterwards came to visit her himself, bringing some fowls and palm-wine as a peace-offering, she persisted in rejecting all compromise.
Now the device was this: he made a great horse of wood, feigning it to be a peace-offering to Minerva, that the Greeks might have a safe return to their homes. But the rest of the people made as if they had departed to their homes; only they went not further than Tenedos, which was an island near to the coast.
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