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Darker and more silent than the night itself, I stood by and watched him do it, while he, bending over his dismal toil, streamed with sweat, panted, and his hard-coming breath seemed to have the harsh tone of a death rattle. It was a weird scene, and had any persons from without beheld us, they would assuredly have taken us rather for profane wretches and shroud-stealers than for priests of God.
"You do see things, don't you? A few hundred yards down the road I passed something you had seen. I knew it was you who had seen it, though the poor wretches had not heard your name." She hesitated a moment, then stooped down and took up in her hand a bit of pebbled earth from the pathway.
"I discovered it there when the horse dashed into the yard covered with blood and foam." "The wretches!" interjected De la Zouch. "And yet, Sir Henry, methought the struggle took place at Cromford, and that would be nigh three miles from where I found the knife." Sir Henry turned livid with anger, and was at a loss how to reply, when Lady Vernon fortunately came to the rescue.
Can nothing be done? Surely we might devise some means for their escape." "I can think of nothing," Harry said. "The prison is too strong to be taken without a considerable force, and it would be impossible to get that together." "Could we not bribe these wretches?" "I have thought over that too," Harry replied; "but, you see, it would be necessary to get several men to work together.
The Count could not bear the idea of the Queen's name being coupled with those of the vile wretches, Lamotte and the mountebank Cagliostro, and therefore wished the King to chastise the Cardinal by a partial exile, which might have been removed at pleasure. But the Queen's party too fatally seconded her feelings, and prevailed.
Lend a hand to help these poor wretches. There, two of you take up that poor old creature; they have carried her out, and then left her; take her on till you find some open space to set her down in. Now, Ned, you take a couple of men and work one side of the lane, I will take the opposite side with the others. Let us go into every room and see that no sick people or children are left behind.
He was sighing like a furnace as he strapped his portmanteau. I hate him, of course, but I was sorry for him. I could not help being. He sighed so all the time, piteously." Josephine turned pale, and lifted her hands in surprise and dismay. "Depend on it, Josephine, we are wrong," said Rose, firmly: "these wretches will not stand our nonsense above a certain time: they are not such fools.
And yet, he was sure that the man who was bellowing and bawling to the delight of the guests of the Black Cat was one of the African wretches who had been entrapped and enslaved by the Rackbirds.
From the sympathy which the German princes had shown for the Belgian fugitives it was clear that they gave less credit to the letters of the king, in explanation of his measures, than to the reports of a few worthless wretches who, in the desecrated churches, had left behind them a worthier memorial of their acts and characters.
You remember the affair of the Daray Bank the savings bank for poor people?" said Sonia, her gentle face glowing with a sudden enthusiastic animation. "Let's see," said the Duke. "Wasn't that the financier who doubled his fortune at the expense of a heap of poor wretches and ruined two thousand people?" "Yes; that's the man," said Sonia.
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