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Having hitherto found it a place of safety they seemed afraid to quit it, while on the sea around fragments of the wreck and broken spars were floating, a few poor fellows clinging to them and crying for help to those who could afford them none.
"Angus not only kept on the job but branched out into other mines that he bought up, and pretty soon he quit counting his money. You know what that would mean to most of his race. It fazed him a mite at first.
You will reorganize the service as soon as possible." "Yes, sire." "You will not again quit my person." "Very well, sire." "You will march with me to the army, you will encamp round my tent." "Then, sire," said D'Artagnan, "if it is only to impose upon me a service like that, your majesty need not give me twenty thousand livres a year. I shall not earn them."
"I know what you're thinking. Quit it. It won't do!" Slowly Halloway turned. For a moment his fine face was drawn with actual suffering. Then he added: "You're quite right, Will, it won't do. But it's hard to forget when one has seen a comet. Touch that button if you don't mind. It's time for the cocktails." Have you seen Spring come to the mountains?
At length he advanced; dropped on one knee, kissed her hand with an aspect and air of reverential homage, and turned to quit the room in silence; for he would not dare to trust himself to speak. Valerie gazed at him in anxious alarm. "O no, no!" she exclaimed, "do not leave me yet; this is our last meeting our last.
"This, my lady," answered the page, "that he has ridden in all haste from the camp that he must quit the city again before nightfall, and craves an audience if only for one minute." Maria looked towards her father, and thus referred the answer to him. Count Laski was silent. "Will you not," said his daughter, "tell this messenger, whether his master may come here or not?"
And though since the mass for the dead was celebrated for my mother it wounded me, and defiance and the wish to punish him urged me to put the convent walls between us no further token of his love has come, though I know as well as you that he desired to quit the world, this by no means impairs nay, it only strengthens the confidence I feel that our souls belong to one another as inseparably as though the sacrament had hallowed our union.
I quit school when I was eleven, but that ain't sayin' I don't miss it. If I had an eddication now, like you lads is goin' to git, er like the Perfesser has, I'd give more'n half what I own. Boys that think they're smart to quit school an' go to work is natchal fools.
I quit the Walnut Hills after three months, and shipped with Captain Patterson on the Cicero, bound for Nashville. The first trip up the Cumberland River the boat was full of passengers, and I had a fight with the pantryman. The Captain said I should go ashore.
If the Israelites had indeed imposed upon the peasants and impoverished them, the former, as they were obliged to quit the villages and join their brethren in the towns, would undoubtedly have carried some property with them, but their utter destitution was apparent from almost all of them becoming immediately a heavy burthen on the congregation, and many of them actually perished from want before they could reach the town fixed upon for their future abode.
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