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"You have no pity on me," cried Elise, wringing her hands, her eyes streaming with tears. "You wish to kill me with your cruel words." "I wish to show to the daughter of the noblest and truest patriot, I wish to point out to the young, inexperienced, credulous maiden, to my sister, that she stands at the edge of an abyss.
When Lord North at his office in London heard the dismal news, he walked up and down the room, wringing his hands and crying, "O God, it is all over!" Yorktown was indeed decisive. In the course of the winter the British lost Georgia. The embers of Indian warfare still smouldered on the border, but the great War for Independence was really at an end.
She said, "Let me by, please." Peter with reluctance gave her just room to pass. He felt that he had not said half of what he wished, but he did not dare to offend again. As it turned out, it was the best thing he could do, for the moment Leonore had passed him, she exclaimed, "Why! Your coat's wringing wet." "That's nothing," said Peter, turning to the voice.
Turning hot and cold at once, and wringing his moist hands as he spoke, he said, taking everything for granted: "Miss Maud, I have seen your father and he gives his consent, and you have only to say the word to make us both happy." "What?"
Oh, what a tongue! What dreadful things you are saying," cried the general, wringing his hands in real grief. "I am intoxicated, general. I am having a day out, you know it's my birthday! I have long looked forward to this happy occasion. Daria Alexeyevna, you see that nosegay-man, that Monsieur aux Camelias, sitting there laughing at us?"
They then launched out, with weeping and groans and much wringing of hands, into a dreary tale. They were young teachers waiting for appointment; one of them had a little family; it would be a dreadful thing for them to be taken away and forced into the army. It was impossible to convince them that there was no harm in the matter.
As if wishing to speak, or as if waiting a question that it has occurred to none to ask, she stands beside them in an attitude of appeal, but if asked what she wants she flings her arms aloft and with a shriek that echoes through the blasted gulches for a mile she disappears and an instant later is seen wringing her hands on her hill-top.
"Arrah! we'll all be murdered entirely by that thief of the world, La Roche, bad luck to him!" he cried out, wringing his hands. "It was an unlucky day that I ever cast eyes on his ugly face for the first time, and now he's after coming back again to pick me up in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just as a big black crow does a worm out of a turnip-field!"
Ray came to his side, She lifted a shaking hand to point at the blood upon his breast. White and mute, she gazed from that to her father. "Papa!" cried Ray, wringing her hands. "Don't give way," he replied, huskily. "Both you girls will need your nerve. Duane isn't badly hurt. But Floyd is is dead. Listen. Let me tell it quick. There's been a fight.
"Is that you, John?" inquired Barnabas, with bowed head. "No, sir, axing your pardon, it be only me, Jerry Tucker, Bo'sun, 'Bully-Sawyer, Seventy " "Bo'sun!" With the word Barnabas was upon his feet. "Why, Bo'sun," he cried, wringing the sailor's hand, "how glad I am to see you!" "Mr.
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