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Two cadets obeyed the order, and Clark took out his watch to time the ordeal. The instants that passed seemed like an age. "Isn't time up?" whispered Saunders. "Shut up, you fool, haven't I got my watch open?" replied Clark. "But, good heavens!" he added, "take him out I believe my watch has stopped." And he shook it and put it to his ear.
The scattered firing of the pickets was lost in the great shout of the South, and, by the time the Northern sentinels could give the alarm to their main body, the rush of Jackson's men was upon them, clearing out the woods and fields in a few instants and driving the Union horsemen in swift flight northward. Harry kept close to his general.
A moment after orders were given for departure, and M. de Conde having been to pay his respects to the king on his pretended rising, inscribed the city of Poitiers upon his tablets, as the place of sojourn and rest for their majesties. Thus in a few instants was unraveled an intrigue which had covertly occupied all the diplomacies of Europe.
And in less time than it would take to tell, we were over the lip of the donga and had fallen upon the fellow before he could turn his head; nevertheless, for a few instants he fought like a wild beast, striking, kicking, and swinging me off my feet as I obeyed my instructions to the letter, and stuck to his left like a leech.
"Those who have nothing to do," she remarks, "when they see artists produce with facility, are ready to wonder at how few hours, how few instants, these can reserve for themselves.
Next morning, when he awoke, his head had cleared, but his ideas were the same. He never doubted for a moment the certainty of his success. During the course of the morning there were instants in which he felt less confident. What if he did not succeed what would his step-mother say what would he himself do, he who had made this scheme part of his being.
The officer conversed a few instants with the captain, gave him several papers, of which he was the bearer, to read, and upon the order of the merchant captain the whole crew of the vessel, both passengers and sailors, were called upon deck.
"Most likely; but, dearest, I am sorry to say my husband expects to obtain judgment in the course of this week, and then the short instants of happiness will for ever be lost to me."
No difficulty seems to arise like that of the inconvenient instants of time which might conceivably turn up again when we thought that we had done with them. The absolute theory of space is not now generally popular.
Morton took the billet, and crimsoning up to the ears, between joy and surprise, read these words: "If you can serve these poor helpless people, you will oblige E. B." It was a few instants before he could attain composure enough to ask, "And what is your object, Cuddie? and how can I be of use to you?"
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