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Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death? death which ends all and must come today or tomorrow at any rate, in an instant as compared with eternity." And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, and again it turned uselessly in the same place. His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by Madame de Souza.
Trent rose up with flashing eyes. Da Souza shrank back from his outstretched hands. The two men stood facing one another. Da Souza was afraid, but the ugly look of determination remained upon his white face. Trent felt dimly that there was something which must be explained between them. There had been hints of this sort before from Da Souza. It was time the whole thing was cleared up.
"Very well," he said, "if I give way, if I agree to your terms, you will be willing to make over this sixth share to me, both on your own account and on account of your late partner?" "You're right, mate," Trent assented. "Plank down the brass, and it's a deal." "I will give you four thousand pounds for a quarter share," Da Souza said. Trent knocked the ashes from his pipe and stood up.
And there is a wine ah, but you shall give me news of that wine." Lieutenant Butler hesitated. Cornet O'Rourke watched him anxiously, praying that he might succumb to the temptation, and attempted suasion in the form of a murmured blessing upon Souza's hospitality. "Sir Robert will be impatient," demurred the lieutenant. "But half-hour," protested Souza. "What is half-hour?
I tell you that to part with half your fortune would ruin you, and the Bekwando Company could never be floated." "I don't anticipate parting with half," Trent said coolly. "Monty hasn't long to live and he ought not to be hard to make terms with." Da Souza beat his hands upon the handles of his deck-chair. "But why go near him at all? He thinks that you are dead.
There is the same exquisite and inimitable delicacy, if not the same power, in many of the happier passages of Madame de Souza and Madame Cottin to say nothing of the more lively and yet melancholy records of Madame de Staël, during her long penance in the court of the Duchesse de Maine. We think the poetry of Mrs.
We are a peace-loving people, but we had no choice but to fight or be what was it your burghers told me in the camps? "driven into the sea." The responsibility of the war is upon you and your President. Grobelaar. 'Don't you believe that. We did not want to fight. We only wanted to be left alone. Self. 'You never wanted war? de Souza. 'Ah, my God, no!
Give me now, that I may publish everywhere, your official assurance that this man will be shot, and on my side I assure you that Principal Souza, thus deprived of his stoutest weapon, must succumb in the struggle that awaits us." "I hope," said O'Moy slowly, his head bowed, his voice dull and even unsteady, "I hope that I am not behind you in placing public duty above private consideration.
"Dear Julie was saying what a shame it seemed that you should be there and we should be enjoying your beautiful gardens. She is so thoughtful, so sympathetic! Dear girl!" "Very kind of your daughter," Trent answered, looking directly at her and rather inclined to pity her obvious shyness. "Come, drink up, Da Souza, drink up, girls!
The woman who wrote these letters is a strangely different being from the quiet jog-trot, rather cynically philosophical Countess of Albany whom we know from all her other innumerable manuscript letters, from the published answers of Sismondi, of Foscolo and of Mme. de Souza to letters of hers which have disappeared.
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