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Upon my honor, never." "Your honor! you have none. The only question is would you rather marry her or die." "Die, to be sure." "Then die you shall." "Ah!" said Dujardin; "did I not tell you we were wasting time? "Let us waste no more then. WHEN and WHERE?" "At the rear of the commander-in-chief's tent; when you like." "This afternoon, then at five." "At five." "Seconds?" "What for?"
Galled with the anxious forebodings of a guilty conscience, Glossin now arose and looked out upon the night. The scene which we have already described in the third chapter of this story, was now covered with snow, and the brilliant, though waste, whiteness of the land gave to the sea by contrast a dark and livid tinge.
Maintain you he cannot. Suppose his mine were sold, he would waste that money as he wasted what he brought here. I don't want his mine, yet I will buy it tomorrow if that will satisfy you, and I have your promise to go with me. I told you once that I wanted to run away with you, and now I mean to. Shall I tell you my plan?" "No, not to-day," Mrs.
Of course such an appeal could not be disregarded; but I confess that as I gazed upon the boundless sea, and along the uninhabited strand, and into the unsettled forests, I wondered where the men or women were to be found to appreciate the imported New York switch. Would it not "waste its sweetness on the desert air" in the unpeopled wilderness?
The end was inevitable: his victory and the destruction of his foes. There would be little mercy for these three in the hands of this iron man from the eastern provinces. If they were to be saved it must be soon, not a week from now, nor when another moon had waned. If Ben was to be checkmated there were not many hours to waste. She had had no opportunity to escape, at first.
When the detective police force encounters intelligence instead of stupidity, in seven cases out of ten the detective police force is beaten. There were still two persons at our disposal. Lady Rachel might help us, as I believed, if she chose to do it. The lawyer declined to waste any more of my money. I called again on Lady Rachel. This time, I was let in.
On his way down to his cabin he passed her door. He went on, hesitated, came back and knocked. Now Edith had not been able to sleep. Her thrifty soul, trained against waste, had urged her not to fling her cigarettes overboard, but to smoke them. "And then never again," she said solemnly. The result was that she could not get to sleep. Blanketed to the chin she lay in her bunk, reading.
Most of all, use idioms English idioms of force. Say an agreement was "come to." Don't say it was "consummated." For the difference between idioms and a Latin style, compare Lincoln with George Washington. One's always interesting and convincing. The other is dull in spite of all his good sense. How most folk do misuse and waste words! Freeman went too far in his use of one-syllable words.
I could not understand Walkirk's objections to this sort of work, for he was a ready writer, a good stenographer, and had shown himself perfectly willing and able to perform duties much more difficult and distasteful than I imagined this possibly could be. But there are many things I do not understand, and which I consider it a waste of time to try to understand; and this was one of them.
Estein liberated the prisoners they had taken on the march, and leaving Ketill in charge of the main force and the hostages, he and Helgi set forth about noon for the seat of King Bue. Their way at first took them over a flat, white waste by the shores of the lake.
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