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The woman straightened herself. "Oh, if you would!" she exclaimed, with obvious relief. "My tyre's burst, and I'm ashamed to confess I haven't the faintest idea what to do." Ann regarded her with interest. She was past her first girlhood, a woman of about thirty, and unusually beautiful.
"Brian's been longer than he said," he remarked when, at the end of the meal, he pushed back his chair and rose from the table. "I expect he hasn't been able to find the old woman's house, or perhaps his tyre's punctured. Hullo! There's father!" The boy's quick ears had caught the rattle of a latch-key, and immediately there was a rush into the hall. Mr.
This is nothing; I'll tear it off, and the good old tyre's so sound that we can go on with its skin off, until Bellagio, when I'll put on a new one before we start again. It has cracked the mud guard in its gyrations, though fortunately not enough to make it unsafe for the luggage."
The period of the Assyrian subjection, which commenced with this attack on the part of Asshur-nazir-pal, will be the subject of the next section. It only remains here briefly to recapitulate the salient points of Phoenician history under Tyre's first supremacy.
But the Wares changed all this. Within a month the report of Theron's charm and force in the pulpit was crowding the church building to its utmost capacity and that, too, with some of Tyre's best people. Equally winning was the atmosphere of jollity and juvenile high spirits which pervaded the parsonage under these new conditions, and which Theron and Alice seemed to diffuse wherever they went.
But does he betray the secret of Tyre's wealth?" Caradoc made a gesture. Madden was about to answer that he didn't know, when the orator went on. "He does not. Rather than expose the rich mines of Cornwall, he dashes his galley upon a reef and risks his life among the early English barbarians."
Tomson and Mr. Dickson and Mr. Dobson and Mr. Potkins, who sat precisely as they sat the evening previous. I returned to the hotel and called out the landlord. 'There's no audience, I perceive, said I. 'Wal, I didn't cal'late much of anybody'd go in. They gen'ally go over to Tyre when they want shows. Tyre's quite a town. You'd do better over thar; 's on'y seven mile over to Tyre.
Allow me but a trifling emendation, and Matthew Arnold's lines will serve to indicate that romance. Substituting 'Zambesians' for 'Iberians, he gave us the last lines of 'The Scholar Gipsy. 'In that era of Tyre's trade, he concluded, 'I place the golden age of our country a golden age which under our own Imperial rule begins anew. 'H'm, said Spenser.
"Guy's had a breakdown, sure," said the first of the thick-necks. "Surest thing you know," agreed his colleague. "Seems to me the tyre's punctured," said the Kid. All three concentrated their gaze on the machine "Kid's right," said thick-neck number one. "Guy's been an' bust a tyre." "Surest thing you know," said thick-neck number two.
Lafayette was always one day's march behind him, and encamped at last at Tyre's Plantation, one day beyond Williamsburg, which may become famous again in a few days. Colonel Butler, of Pennsylvania, with his riflemen, attacked Colonel Simcoe, of the English corps of refugees, at the Fords of the Chickahominy, about six miles west of Williamsburg. We shall be hearing of these fords again.
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