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For a moment we remained thus, and I marvelled greatly to see a man whose heart, if full of evil, I had yet deemed stout enough, stricken by fear into so parlous and pitiful a condition.
'Hope you then, said one of them, as continuing their previous conversation, 'that we shall escape unhurt? It is a parlous business. Not as one of us is afeard as I knows on. But the old earl, he do have a most unregenerate temper, and you had better look to't, my masters. 'I tell thee, master Upstill, it's not the old earl as I'm afeard on, but the young lord.
So great was his skill that the Great Eastern Railway Company, which, financially, was in a parlous condition and their dividend nil, in 1866 took him from the Midland and made him their general manager, at, in those days, a princely salary.
"By His life who holds my guiding rein, I swear * I'll meet on love ground parlous foe nor care: Good sooth I'll vex revilers, thee obey * And quit my slumbers and all joy forswear: And for thy love I'll dig in vitals mine * A grave, nor shall my vitals weet 'tis there!" And Ni'amah exclaimed, "Heaven favoured art thou, O Naomi!" But whilst they led thus the most joyous life, behold!
Presently, as if forgetting herself, she cried, "Ah, my boy, there's a parlous deed going on up at the Towers! You should be going to help." And George learned to his astonishment that the Squire's house was being at that moment attacked by a formidable and desperate gang. Fairburn had gone off to render what assistance he could.
Thus had Vesey set forth the reading of the code: Foregone conclusion Preconcerted arrangement Rash act Witching hour of midnight Goes without saying Muffled report Rumour hath it Mine host Dark horse Silent majority Unfortunate pedestrians* Richmond in the field Existing conditions Great White Way Hotly contested Brute force Select few Mooted question Parlous times Beggars description Ye correspondent Angel unawares Incontrovertible fact
"Why, you wicked man, a cloister implies a monk, and a monk Roman Catholicism." "And Roman Catholicism sin, and sin damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, Angel Clare." "I glory in my Protestantism!" she said severely.
'Our pretty gentleman must needs stand upon the niceties of honour after taking up arms against his King. I tell you, sir, that your honour is in such a parlous state already that you may well throw it over and look to your safety. The sun is sinking in the west. Ere it set your life, too, may have set for ever. 'I am the keeper of my own honour, your Grace, I answered.
The King's ward turned her eyes upon him, kept them there a moment, then glanced away, and looked at him no more. "There's a parlous lump upon his forehead where it struck the thwart," said the minister, "but the life's yet in him. He'll shame honest men for many a day to come. Your Platonists, who from a goodly outside argue as fair a soul, could never have been acquainted with this gentleman."
The message was dated at Wi-ju, and these were the words of it: Foregone preconcerted rash witching goes muffled rumour mine dark silent unfortunate richmond existing great hotly brute select mooted parlous beggars ye angel incontrovertible. Boyd read it twice. "It's either a cipher or a sunstroke," said he.
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