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And the muscles about my wound had stiffen'd which was vilely painful: and the country, I saw, was a brown, barren moor, dotted with peat- ricks: and I cursed it. This did me good: for it woke the fighting-man in me, and I set my teeth. Now for the first time looking back, I saw, with a great gulp of joy, I had gained on the troopers.
His daughter vilely seduced, as a recompence for his hospitality, and he himself thrown into a prison perhaps but for resenting the insult? His son too, whom you feared to face as a man 'Is it possible, Sir, interrupted his nephew, 'that my uncle could object that as a crime which his repeated instructions alone have persuaded me to avoid.
Despite my Dutch education, a blue hill to me is as a friend, and a roaring torrent like the sound of a domestic song that hath soothed my infancy. I never felt the impulse so strongly as in this land of lakes and mountains, and nothing grieves me so much as that duty prevents your being with me in my numerous excursions among recesses. Some drawings I have attempted, but I succeed vilely.
I am afraid I have been very untidy," he added, laughing apologetically, and looking at the heap of closely-written sheets strewing the rug. Diana came forward slowly, a faint colour rising in her face. "I thought you had gone with Monseigneur." "I had some work to do some notes that I wanted to transcribe before I forgot myself what they meant; I write vilely.
I recalled the phrase about the 'scientific vacuum' which had fallen from the lips of England's greatest orator, and tried to console myself with the hope that I might not play so very vilely in spite of the fact that I had forgotten every line and word.
In the barbaric night which succeeded, we find art sunk to the most childish attempt at imitating simple nature; which was “copied most vilely.” In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries we trace the latent wish for the delineation of beauty struggling again into life; but it was simply the wish rather than the power to delineate the graceful, that we find displayed in the contorted figures which the artists of these days attempted to picture as graceful beings.
She clasped her hands and let them drop limply in front of her as she sank into her chair again. "Oh, I am so lonely, so lonely," she murmured, "I don't know what to do. If you would only help me. I know I behaved horribly to you, vilely; but surely surely you have some pity for me in my misfortune. I have no one to turn to no one no one.
"I fancied I might conclude that you wished the help of my experience and poor ability in clearing an innocent man who has been vilely slandered, M. Pascal Ferailleur." Marguerite sprang to her feet, at once agitated and alarmed. "How did you know this?" she exclaimed.
It felt much better, the swelling had materially decreased, and the cap seemed descending into its proper place. Also, the three days' rest brought the trouble I had foreseen. It was plainly Thomas Mugridge's intention to make me pay for those three days. He treated me vilely, cursed me continually, and heaped his own work upon me.
"Now do you really think your two lives are worth a guinea? Why, it's 252 pence! 1008 farthings!" The pair affected disappointment vilely. At all events, he must accept this basket of gudgeons Maxley had brought along. Being poisoned was quite out of Maxley's daily routine, and had so unsettled him, that he had got up, and gone fishing to the amazement of the parish. Sampson inspected the basket.
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