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The hall was dimly lighted, and he had a chance to say this to Viola without getting into full view of the caller, and without her overhearing. Then, turning quickly, Colonel Ashley hurried out of the house. "Morocco Kate," he mused as he got into the car again, and told Jean to drive to Captain Poland's. "Morocco Kate!
Speak, man; you look sick." "Take me to the city hospital. I am sick." "I shall take you right back to Mrs. Poland's," said the doctor, pulling up. Haldane laid his hands on the reins, and then explained his fears and the motive for his action. "God bless you, old fellow; but you are right. Any effort now would cost Amy her life, and she would make it if you were there.
Assuredly, every hasty sigh that rebels in the breasts of Poland's outcast sons against the mystery of her doom will plead against thee at the judgment-seat of Heaven!" He went on at a rapid pace through several fields, his heart and soul full of those remembrances, and the direful echoes to them he had met in England.
I thank you from my heart for the favor you have done me, for I have sought you for some days in vain." "Your majesty sought me?" said she, smiling. "Then I am sure that you are ready to sympathize with misfortune." "Do you need sympathy?" asked he, eagerly. "Sire, I am a daughter of Poland," replied she. "And the Wielopolskas are among the noblest and richest of Poland's noble families." "Noble!
But Poland's representative insisted and pleaded suasively for a hint of what had been settled. The Premier finally consented and said, "Tell the General Secretary of the Conference, M. Dutasta, from me, that he may make the desired communication to you." The delegate accordingly repaired to M. Dutasta, preferred his request, and received this reply: "M. Clemenceau may say what he likes.
This composite feeling he inwardly wrestled with as the conversation placidly proceeded. They only spoke of Poland, of Chopin. Once the name of Emilia Plater, the Polish Joan of Arc, was mentioned she, too, was a distant connection. The young pianist hinted that more music would be agreeable, but there was no response. He was quite alone with Constantia, and they talked of Poland's tone-poet.
He is for doing violence to my Daughter's inclination, and rendering her unhappy for the rest of her days; will give her a brutal debauchee," fat Weissenfels, so describable in strong language; "a younger brother, who is nothing but the King of Poland's Officer; landless, and without means to live according to his rank. Or can it be the State that will profit from such a marriage?
Small wonder he was whistled down by irate Polish parliamentarians in an address to a joint session of the parliamentary committees for agriculture and European integration in the Sejm. Poland's fractured farm sector is notoriously inefficient.
The radical Polish organs, published abroad by political exiles, took occasion to denounce bitterly the anti-Semitic trend of Polish society. The veteran historian Lelevel, who had not yet forgotten Poland's historic injustice of 1831, issued a pamphlet in Brussels, calling upon the Poles to live in harmony with the race with which it had existed side by side for eight hundred years.
In this connection it is instructive to pass in review the secret maneuvers by which the recognition of Poland's independence was, so to say, extorted from a Russian Minister, who was reputed at the time to be a Democrat of the Democrats.
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