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When its charter expired in 1836, it got another from Pennsylvania, and kept going for some years. But Jackson had given it a deathblow. It fell into dangerous financial practices, failed, started again, failed a second time, staggered to its feet once more, and then went down in utter ruin and disgrace. Its ruin was not accomplished without great disturbance to financial conditions.
In Pennsylvania, in Maryland, in New York, in short, practically everywhere save in Massachusetts, where the fight was still in the courts, separation had received its deathblow, while robbed of this advantage the Conference companies could do little or nothing to harm the Guardian.
The ex-consul, being far from anxious to engage in a duel with a young poet who would fly into a rage at the first hint of insult under his lady's eyes, was wise enough to see that the only way of dealing Lucien his deathblow was by the spiritual arm which was safe from vengeance. He therefore followed the example set by Chatelet the astute, and went to the Bishop. Him he proceeded to mystify.
The interview at Coblenz was the deathblow to the papal diplomacy, and the sluggish Philip awaited in the Vermandois the expected attack of the Anglo-imperial armies. Yet the best part of a year was still to elapse before lances were crossed in earnest. The lords of the empire had no real care for the cause of Edward.
There are calamities too great for human sympathy; seasons too awful for any presence save that of the Eternal. Time, reason, and religion not the hollow mockery of solemn words and looks must heal the heart lacerated by the tremendous deathblow. Abraham Allcraft had waited for this day. He saw the gloomy curtains drawn aside he beheld life stirring in the house again.
"And I may have 'No." "To be sure, if thou think 'no. But, even so, if thou lose the wedding ring, the hand is still left; another ring may be found." "'No, would be a deathblow to me." "It will not. While a man has meat and drink love will not starve him; with world's business and world's pleasure an unkind love he makes shift to forget.
Feverishly I watched the thermometer. Slowly it rose. Perry had ceased singing and was at last praying. Our hopes had received such a deathblow that the gradually increasing heat seemed to our distorted imaginations much greater than it really was. For another hour I saw that pitiless column of mercury rise and rise until at four hundred and ten miles it stood at 153 degrees.
His arms, thighs, legs, and feet were severally broken with the iron bar some hours before the coup de grace, or deathblow, was inflicted. Colognac endured his sufferings with heroic fortitude. He was only twenty-four. He had commenced to preach at twenty, and laboured at the work for only four years. Brousson's health was fast giving way.
These friendly sounds took off at once the awful stress of vigilant watchfulness as of so many blind men not knowing whence the deathblow might come. He pretended a great reluctance. The voice declared itself "a white man a poor, ruined, old man who had been living here for years."
The men rushed up with spears and clubs ready to deliver the deathblow but the girl was not inclined to give up her prisoner so easily. "He is mine," she protested; "I found him. You shall not take him from me. I will feed him and give him chinca bark to cure his fever and when he is well again and fat " "No! No! We must not wait.
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