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There is in this pavilion, which was formerly the abode of a nobleman's left-handed wife, you see, sir," said Adrienne, smiling, "that live in a very profane place there is here a secret place of concealment, so wonderfully well-contrived, that it can defy all searches. Georgette will conduct you to it. You will be very well accommodated.
A spreading beech tree shaded their heads from the sun, which now was on the decline; and occasionally its wide branches rustled with the soft breeze that passed over them in renovating and gentle gusts. The woods widened before them, and at the termination of a well-contrived avenue, they caught the roofs of the village and the tall grey tower of Ducie Church.
They were surrounded by servants, all in white; outside of whom were ranks of soldiers, and beyond them were many rowers in well-contrived galleries, three of these on each side all along the canoes, raised one above the other, each gallery containing eighty rowers.
There is one way to give novelty: to depend for success on the interest of a well-contrived story. "Liberty's in every blow; Let us do or die!" Poor Rob Burns! to tack thy fine strains of sublime patriotism! Better take Tristram Shandy's vein. Hand me my cap and bells there. So now, I am equipped. I open my raree-show with Ma'am, will you walk in, and fal de ral diddle?
Toss as he may, his dreams do not discover the lost secret. Even Philip Hardin may meet a Nemesis. Villa Rocca, slain by a well-contrived accident, died for a secret he knew not. His own hand slew the woman who knew alone of the changelings, save the bright and defiant ex-queen of the El Dorado. Dark memories hover around some of the great mines of the Pacific.
Instantly recovering his composure, he arose, and, turning to the double leathern sack, which had been borne on the crupper of his nag, and which now lay at no great distance from his seat, he drew a pair of horseman's pistols from two well-contrived pockets in its sides, and laid them deliberately on the table.
This so regular, and so well-contrived house, was made in just the same manner as a cave, and men finding it ready made to their hands made use of it, as they would in a storm, of a cave they should find under a rock in a desert." What thoughts could a man entertain of such a fantastic philosopher, if he should persist seriously to assert that such a house displays no art?
By this well-contrived shipwreck, having, as they imagined, raised their fortunes, they came home triumphantly from their prosperous voyage, and claimed the money for which the ship was insured.
The Christmas functions here were showy, and I thought well-contrived; the public ones are what I speak of: but I was present lately at a private merrymaking, where all distinctions seemed pleasingly thrown down by a spirit of innocent gaiety.
The Pope insisted that the temporal and spiritual interests should be discussed together; and, however disposed a certain number of prelates, particularly the Italians, might be to separate these two points of discussion, yet the influence of the Church and well-contrived intrigues gradually gave preponderance to the wishes of the Pope.
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