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"Because of George?" She nodded: it was indeed because of George, for how could she keep her promise with Miriam in the house? "And, after all," Miriam said brightly, "there's Zebedee. I'm not leaving you quite alone. He'll be back soon. But it's that I don't want to do without you. I can't think how to do it." "I know," Helen said, and added, "but you'll find out." "And John " "Never mind.
"Promise me you won't let anything short of a case of life or death keep you away?" "It's as serious as that, is it? All right, I'll be on hand, unless the heavens fall." He was good as his word, and at the appointed hour his hostess, keeping an agitated watch on her neighbour's house, saw him arrive, in plenty of time to dress. She drew a relieved breath.
Dubois left at five o'clock in the morning, in a hunting-dress, for Pautoix, where he found M. de Tressan, who, according to his promise, bestowed on him the deaconship, the archdeaconship, and the priesthood.
Deriving scarcely anything from France, deeply in debt, and with credit exhausted, she found herself entirely at the end of her resources. How thoroughly did the banished woman then realise the woes of exile how hard it is to climb and descend the stranger's stair, experience the hollowness of his promise, and the arrogance of his commiseration.
A somewhat puzzling line, but which appears to convey the promise on the part of the penitent that if forgiven he will observe the rites demanded by the deity. Babylon. IVR 19, no. 3; Zimmern, no. 5. Like a column. The metaphor is the same as in the Biblical phrase, "column of smoke." Published by Brünnow, Zeits. f. Assyr. v. 66 seq. The king mentions his father, Shamshi-Ramman, in the hymn.
If you will say to me that you will release him from his promise, I will swear to you by the God whom we both worship, that I will never become his wife that he shall never touch me or speak to me in love."
"Listen," she says, "come back to-morrow in the daytime, before getting under way, to bid me good-by; I shall only return to my mother in the evening; you will find me still up there." And I promise.
The routine duties at the office on the following day did not promise very much, but he went through them in a kind of grim, vindictive manner, as if resolving to set his foot on all obstacles. He would "suffer in silence and give no sign" till the hour came when he could flash out upon the world.
Yes, the Collector's promise had come true and far more than true. She was marvellous. It was by mere beauty, too, that she dazzled, helped by no jewels but the one plain rope of pearls at her throat.
My picture is worth five hundred dollars, but I am willing to do a little better than that by you. I will make it seven-fifty to you, but not a cent more." "Can't I jew you up any higher, dear boy?" "No," with a smile; "but if you will consent to sit to me ten years from now, I promise faithfully to ask five thousand of you without a blush."
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