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If the question were pressed as to whether he guessed for what purpose that sum was so urgently needed, he would answer it, of course; but he suggested that it should not be pressed, as likely to give pain to those who were already in terrible affliction.
Before 350, probably in 343, Constans had to cross the Channel and repel the Picts and other assailants. After 368 such aid was more often and more urgently required. Significantly enough, the lists of coins found in some country-houses close about 350-60, while others remained occupied till about 385 or even later.
Whatever Paula asked for Orion sang, as though nothing was unknown to him that had ever sounded on a Greek lute; and the longer they went on the clearer and richer his voice grew, the more melting and seductive its expression, and the more urgently it appealed to the young girl's heart.
The French have eight sail in Brest water ready for sea: therefore I think we shall not court the French out of port," singular illustration of the unreadiness of Great Britain in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. He looks for war, however, the following summer. As not only ships, but men also, were urgently needed, the impress service was hastily organized.
Kâramanèh started forward to meet him, suppressing a little cry, whose real anguish could not have been simulated. "Go back! go back!" she whispered urgently, and thrust out her hands against Smith's breast. "For God's sake, go back! I have risked my life to come here to-night. He knows, and is ready...." The words were spoken with passionate intensity, and Nayland Smith hesitated.
As soon as they had left the room the young man spoke softly but urgently into his father's ear: "You are quite right, Father," he said. "She is better and more noble, more beautiful and more highminded than any girl living. I love her, and will stake everything to win her heart. Oh, God! Oh, God! Merciful Heaven! Are you glad, do you give your consent, Father?
We were to start early on Monday morning. My mother and sister rushed down to Chatham, and my sister has urgently requested me to mention in "the book" that she carried, with much labour, a large and heavy pair of ski-ing boots. Most of the others had enlisted like myself in a hurry. They did not see "their people" until December.
In an instant the servant recognized the visitor. "Mr. Peters will not be in for a quarter of an hour," he said. "Would you care to wait, sir?" "Yes," Hugh replied. "I want to see him very urgently." "Will you come in? Mr. Peters has left instructions that you might probably call; Mr. Henfrey, is it not?" "Yes," replied Hugh. The man seemed to possess a memory like that of a club hall-porter.
To this reiterated accusation to which, indeed, appearances lent only too great a probability the marquise replied by showing her burnt neck and her blackened lips, and wringing her hands in pain, cried out that she was poisoned, that she was going to die, and begged urgently for milk, or at least for water.
A new building is therefore urgently needed, and it is ardently hoped that a new fireproof building which is adequate for the purpose may soon be provided, to relieve the great stress now so apparent in many parts of the building, as well as to preserve its interesting collections and valuable library.
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