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I can see in imagination the whole scene, the Sheikh inviting them to land... then a rush of wild Arabs, and all is over! 'It is very sad, he added, 'but being ordained, we must not murmur. And yet he believed that the true responsibility lay with him; it was the punishment of his own sins. 'I look on it, was his unexpected conclusion, 'as being a Nemesis on the death of the two Pashas.
Mr. Dale was at first startled, and almost awed, by this unexpected burst. But, accustomed to deal with the sternest and the darkest passions, his calm sense and his habit of authority over those whose souls were bared to him, nobly recovered from their surprise.
The hackman had driven them before, and recognized them with evident pleasure mingled with surprise. "Glad to see you back again, capt'n," he remarked, addressing the younger of his two passengers; "but it's kind of unexpected, isn't it? I understood you'd gone to join your ship, expecting to sail directly for foreign parts."
"I must be cruel to be kind," he told himself. What he exactly meant by the assurance, he hardly knew. But, in some way, it assisted self-respect and promised a course of action likely to justify his coming life. A disquieting and wholly unexpected event now broke into the strenuous days of the mistress of 'The Seven Stars. It followed another, which was now a thing of the past; but Mrs.
She got hold of the roll at last and after keeping it for some time in her left hand, while her attention was distracted by the conversation which sprang up again, she put it back again on the table unconsciously without having taken a bite of it. "It always comes out the same, a journey, a wicked man, somebody's treachery, a death-bed, a letter, unexpected news. I think it's all nonsense.
Still the unexpected direction, thought Rita, but she answered out of her firm resolve: "I shall not be wretched, for I do not don't care. The time was when I did care very, very much; but now I " She did not finish the sentence, and her conscience reproached her, for she knew she was uttering a big, black lie. Dic had expected scorn, and had thought he would be able to bear it without flinching.
Yet the plan of an academy, though it had met with very inconsiderable encouragement, was not suffered to die out absolutely; somehow the thing took root, and even grew, in a measure, making no very great sign of vitality however. But it produced a pamphlet now and then found unexpected advocates here and there, dragged on a sickly, invalid sort of existence.
He was to return to London, in the event of the Bill passing, on the following morning. The situation was as follows: A completely unexpected opposition had showed itself as soon as the Bill was announced.
My worst fear was relieved when I learned that it was not so, but I could not rest until I had satisfied myself of Mistress Lucy's well being, so I hired a horse and rode out to Spanish Town, being well nigh choked, I remember, with the dust my steed's hoofs raised from the sandy road. And here I had news that gave me the greater shock, for that it was utterly unexpected.
About noon, just when the whole fair had been assembled, the storm commenced with wind, sleet, and rain. Never was a more striking or unexpected change produced.
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