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Marguerite stood awaiting his answer. "Monsieur," she said at last, "will you add one more to my sorrows?" The unutterable sadness of the tone went to La Pommeraye's heart. Impulsively he knelt before her. "Mademoiselle," he said, "if an angel from heaven had appeared to me and asked me to have mercy on that villain, I should have perilled my own soul rather than let him go unpunished. But now "
In spite of us, it takes us whithersoever we tend, and not whithersoever we like; in spite of us, it sometimes saves what we have carelessly perilled, and always destroys what we wilfully throw away. A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner.
It is the leaving the poor child that grieves me. She is in a fearful state, between sore throat, starvation, and blows." The picture of the effect of the blows coming before Rachel at that moment, perilled her ability even to sit through the dinner; but her companion saw the suddening whitening of her cheek, and by a dexterous signal at once caused her glass to be filled.
'What is that noise? A figure moves behind the dusky grate. Our gaoler. No, no, it is Caleb! Faithful child, I fear you have perilled much. 'I enter with authority, my lord, and bear good tidings. 'He smiles! Is't possible? Speak on, speak on! 'Alroy has captured the harem of our Governor, as they journeyed from Bagdad to this city, guarded by his choicest troops.
At the Revival of Learning, however, their works fell out of favour: they were not written in classical Latin: the forms into which their speculations were thrown were often unattractive; it was mainly in their authority that the Roman Church found support for her perilled dogmas.
Better, he thought, that they who received the pay of the Government, for upholding its interests and dignity, should be subject to a frequent recurrence of duty not in itself particularly irksome-than that an important post the nucleus of the future prosperity of the State should be perilled by the absence of that vigilance which ought to characterize the soldier.
Other similar ejaculations of love and joy she uttered; and if I HAD perilled life in her service, if I DID believe that hope of escape there was none, so exquisite was the moment of our meeting, that I forgot all else in this overwhelming joy! As I said, the ladies and gentlemen were inclined to sneer, and were giggling audibly.
I shame to say that his brotherhood to her, for whom I would have perilled my life, restrained me not from something very like a hearty commendation of him to the powers that burn "Down, dogs, there down," continued he, and in a moment after entered the conservatory flushed and heated with the chace. "Mouche is the winner two to one and so, Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pounds."
It cannot be thine aunt, for there is no love lost between ye; and besides, no man ever perilled his life to bid adieu to an aunt. So have no secrets from me, John, but tell me straight, and I will judge whether this second treasure that thou seekest is true gold enough to fling thy life into the scale against it.
Behind him, at the distance of perhaps forty yards, came Billy Lee, his body-servant, who had perilled his life in many a field, beginning on the heights of Boston, in 1775, and ending in 1781, when Cornwallis surrendered, and the captive army, with inexpressible chagrin, laid down their arms at Yorktown.
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