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We returned home, reflecting much on the feebleness of our poor humanity, and the nothingness of the things of this world." Marshal Marmont, who was in the Gallery of Diana at the moment of the King's death, was much struck by the two phrases pronounced at an instant's interval by M. de Damas: "Gentlemen, the King is dead! The King, gentlemen!"
Without an instant's hesitation he threw himself forward. What mattered it if he lost his life in the attempt? He would save the occupants of the carriage, or give his wretched life in the attempt. Nearer, nearer came the galloping horses, and just as he was about to throw himself forward to seize them by the bits, they collided with the street lamp.
"I have never liked her from the first time she talked to me," he answered without an instant's hesitation. "And I don't like her any the better since I have heard you and Mr. Osborne talking about her, and since I spotted her in that advertisement yesterday." "Well, Dick," I went on, "Mrs. Stapleton and Dulcie are now tremendous friends, and I believe that Mrs.
No sooner had the posse gone than Hank Speed stepped across the field without an instant's hesitation and looked the animal over, after which he returned to the house and came out again with a rifle in his hands. The ranger slid down the farther side of the stack and slipped his revolver from its holster.
Watts was never a Pre-Raphaelite, clothing anew his dreams of medieval beauty; nor a seeker after the glories of Greece and Rome, like Leighton and Alma Tadema; nor a student of the instant's impression, like Whistler. To penetrate beneath the seen to the unseen was the aim of his art. He wrestled to express thoughts in paint that seem inexpressible.
"And dad asked me to coax you chaps to keep away from old Billings he's a regular bear, anyway. But to make up for that, to-morrow I'm going to take you to the swellest pickerel lake you ever laid eyes on." "You mean bass lake, don't you?" asked Jerry maliciously. "Pickerel and bass," agreed Tod without an instant's hesitation. "Let's turn in; we want to make an early start."
In that instant's play of vision there was surely something more than can be told in words, for the next moment he rushed forward and seized one of Grant's hands in both his own. There was a moment's handclasp, and the boy had become a man. "I'm going, Grant," he said. "I'm going NOW!" He turned and made his way out of the room, leaving his chief breathless in a rapture of joy and pride.
"Well, they may be useful, but I should recommend you to be careful, and to walk in the middle of the street when you are in doubtful neighborhoods. A pistol is very good in its way, but it takes time to get it out, and cock it, while one's fist is always ready for service at an instant's notice." By this time they had arrived at the door of the studio.
'Men's coats are made to keep out weather, and he pointed to his own, closely buttoned up. 'Your dress I can't help being disrespectful under the circumstances will be wet through in ten minutes. Another silence. Then he overtook her. 'Please, Miss Leyburn, he said, stopping her. There was an instant's mute contest between them. The rain splashed on the umbrellas.
Harry Warrington was not over head and ears in love with her at an instant's warning, and faithless to to that other individual with whom, as we have seen, the youth had lately been smitten. Miss Theo had kind eyes and a sweet voice; a ruddy freckled cheek and a round white neck, on which, out of a little cap such as misses wore in those times, fell rich curling clusters of dark brown hair.
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