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Then all the latent Vashti in Margaret was roused, and she could hardly keep herself from expressing her feelings.
What a pity we didn't think of having Vashti, Mrs. Sandford." However, Theresa made no objection to be dressed for Esther. "Who will be your supporters? Ella is too short. Jane and Nora? Where is Nora!" Nora was in the furthest corner of the room, seated in gloom. "Nora! "I am not going to play any more " said Nora. "You must come and be one of the queen's women I want you for that."
A wife abused, persecuted, and a perpetual exile from every earthly comfort waiting, waiting, until the Lord shall gather up His dear children in a heavenly home, and no poor Vashti will ever be thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus, in silence and answering not a word, drinking the gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of the rapturous consummation when
Vashti, stretching out both hands to wave back the child, opened them suddenly to catch her and not too soon, for Annet alighted on a rock that sloped back towards the gulf, and had measured her powers against the leap so narrowly that her heels overhung the water and her body was bending backward when Vashti gripped, and, dragging her up to firm ground, took her in both arms. "But why?
"He looks very taking!" said Miss Vashti Sniff, a young lady who blushed cream-colour and wore yellow bonnet ribbons. Dick was advancing to the door in a painfully new coat of shining cloth, primrose-coloured waistcoat, hat of the same painful style of newness, and with an extra quantity of whiskers shaved off his face, and hair cut to an unwonted shortness in honour of the occasion.
I've amused myself before now, planning imaginary frauds on the revenue; and if anyone cares to risk opening up that game afresh, the Islands still give him a-plenty of openings." "Yes, yes," agreed the Commandant, and checked a groan. He had thought of warning Vashti to slip down to the quay and borrow a boat there without asking leave.
Having no relatives to dictate, Elsie named me Vashti, for my mother; but my great-uncle wrote that my baptism must be deferred until he could be present, and instructed her to call me Evelyn, after himself. But the stubborn Scotch will would not bend, and my name was written in the family Bible, Vashti Flewellyn. Before the expiration of three years, Mr.
But that is easy." The stranger reached out a white hand with a diamond upon it, and Annet yielded the book to her without resisting. "I come from here" and she tapped the pages mysteriously. "But how can that be?" demanded Linnet, who was always the matter-of-fact one. "Out of a book! Such things do not happen." Vashti laughed merrily.
Swordsmen thrust through, and dying in their blood on the arena sand; bulls goring horses disembowelled, made a meeker vision for the public a milder condiment for a people's palate than Vashti torn by seven devils: devils which cried sore and rent the tenement they haunted, but still refused to be exorcised.
Many hasty surmises whirled together in the Commandant's brain the first, and hastiest, that Vashti, unable to make her escape, had aroused Archelaus, and that Archelaus was unbarring the door for her on the pretence of hearing a knock. Even so, she would be caught as soon as she reached the shore.
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