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Presently he mentioned a root named Yage, known to the Indians which, when pounded up into a paste and taken in the form of pills, had the effect of enabling the patient to see events that were passing at a distance. Indeed he alleged that a vision thus produced had caused him to return home, since in it he saw that some relative of his, I think a twin-sister, was dangerously ill.
"Have a nip?" he hospitably inquired. Maclean nodded, and half filled a glass. "Thank you, sir. Queer thing's happened," he observed, as he wiped his lips. "The Russian " "I know," interrupted the captain. "I've been watching her through the port. She's the Saigon's twin-sister ship, that was the Saragossa which old Kep sold to Baron Dabchowski six months ago.
For heaven's sake say something, or I shall be quite confused." "It's Valmai, auntie, my twin-sister, though you could not remember her name, but of whom I have thought often and often. Auntie, you will welcome her for my sake? Is she not the very image of me? alike nay, not so, but the same, the very same, only in two bodies. Oh, Valmai!
And missus says to me, 'William, she says, 'this is Miss Gwladys's sister, her twin-sister, she says, 'Miss Valmai Powell. And I couldn't say nothing, if you believe me, with my eyes as big as saucers. Ach y fi! there's an odd thing!" In the drawing-room after dinner there were endless questions and answers, each one seeming to find in the other's history a subject of the deepest interest. Mrs.
The "Lithuanian Jerusalem" had put aside its sceptre, and it lay down for a long sleep, with dreams of the Haskalah, "twin-sister of faith". As Wilna has since that time witnessed no excesses of fanaticism, so also it has not known an intense life, the acrid opposition between Haskalah and religion. It remained the capital of the moderate, traditional attitude and religious opportunism.
But we find also that there was a certain Sally, who could be tolerated only because of her great culinary skill; and an uncertain Silvy, who appears to have been in mind, if not in fact, the twin-sister of Jim, with a spice of Topsy thrown in. The trouble in those days was not the prospect of suddenly losing cook or nursemaid, but that there was no getting rid of either.
For two or three years past he had felt a special responsibility towards this twin-sister of his. Who was there to look after her but he? He saw that his father never gave her a serious thought, and as to Aubrey well, he too seemed to have no room in his mind for Pam poor old Pam! 'How are you getting on with Broomie? he asked suddenly. 'I don't like her! said Pamela fiercely.
He always had had the knack of breaking his own toys, he not unfrequently broke other people's; but accidents will happen, and his twin-sister and factotum, Dot, was long-suffering. Dot was fat, resolute, hasty, and devotedly unselfish.
They had opened every drawer and closet, explored the cellar, examined the chimneys at each end of the house, and then gone up-stairs to continue the hunt. Mrs. Halliburn came into the room, leaning on the arm of Win Milton, who presented her to the lieutenant. She looked like the twin-sister, rather than the wife, of the planter, and the same pious expression was settled upon her face.
Sometimes the Alliance addressed this stupendous apparition in words of courtesy, sometimes in tones of denunciation. THE VATICAN CONSTITUTION CRITICISED. The Alliance failed to perceive that modern Science is the legitimate sister indeed, it is the twin-sister of the Reformation. They were begotten together and were born together.
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