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Only all his thoughts of the previous night warned him that something must be done, and that it was "up to him to get busy." A long wakeful night is apt to distort many things of paramount interest. But the morning light generally reduces them to their proper focus. Thus it is with people who are considered temperamental. But Bill had no such claims.
She also warned him against the risk of infection. "You don't understand," he repeated, impatiently. "These are nice houses nice enough for anybody to live in. If you took soup to people like that, why, they'd throw it at you." "Wretches!" murmured the indignant Jane, who was enjoying herself amazingly.
I told them why I had been sent, warned them of the evil intended them, and advised them to escape for their lives; but, as no immediate danger was to be feared, I joined them in their worship." "And you have brought no list?" "None."
And, say, when you talk to me, jest try and remember that I don't wear brass buttons and a uniform." His blue eyes blazed. "It's your infernal meanness that's to blame, and nothin' else. I warned you I told you half a dozen times that you wasn't gittin' grub enough to come into the hills this time of year.
In vain did Simonetto, warned by sinister presentiment, entreat his uncle on his knees to allow him to put Penna to death: Guido refused. The plot ripened suddenly on the occasion of the marriage of Astorre with Lavinia Colonna, at Midsummer, 1500. The festival began and lasted several days amid gloomy forebodings, whose deepening effect is admirably described by Matarazzo.
Tressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd. "I warned you, madame! I warned you how it would end," he cried. "I told you " "Oh, I remember the things you told me," she cut in, scorn in her voice. "You may spare yourself their repetition. What is done is done, and I'll not I would not have it undone.
"Let's go out on the verandah and talk it over." "Don't trust him too implicitly, Miss Thorpe," warned Betty; "my brother is a first-grade scalawag, and I want you to be forewarned!" "There, there, Sis, I'll do my own forewarning. Come along, Miss Thorpe, we'll sit under the spreading wistaria tree." The two disappeared, and there was a moment's silence, and then Patty said,
He not only passed over my involuntary act of rudeness in the most indulgent manner he explained to me the cause which had produced his peculiarity of complexion; so as to put me at my ease before we entered on the delicate private inquiry which had brought us together. "I beg your pardon," said this unfortunate man, "for not having warned you of my disfigurement, before I entered the room.
On the banks of the Rhône travellers were charitably warned not to put up at certain solitary inns for fear of not reappearing therefrom.
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