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And, as if to emphasise my peaceful fireside at home, and dinner at seven o'clock with candles on the table, the fire re-commenced. "Artillery," I said with conviction, "seems to me barbarous and unnecessary. But in a moving automobile " It was a wrong move. He hastened to tell me of people riding along calmly in automobiles, and of the next moment there being nothing but a hole in the road.

Strange to say, this was a song of which, Bob noticed, the involuntary musicians never completed the second bar. They re-commenced all over again from the beginning, when they reached some particularly crucial point, where the `click' or the `clack' of the ever-echoing `click-clacking' chorus proved too much for their overworked axles!

To the cry of the wounded man, succeeded a savage and threatening yell from the united band, and now re-commenced the grating sound which had two or three times before excited the conjectures of the besieged. "Ah I yell away you devils; that's all the good you'll get," exclaimed Green, exulting at his success; "but don't take so tight a grip of my bayonet.

If she prefers to go with you, I have no more to say, but if not, I claim her; and if she consents, will resist your interference." "Japhet," replied Melchior, after a pause, "we must not quarrel now that we are about to part. I will give you an answer in half an hour." Melchior returned to Nattée, and re-commenced a conversation with her, while I hastened to Fleta.

I may as well here observe that the carpenter had been listening to the story as he sat by the hatchway on deck, and it was he who had favoured us with the miaw which had so frightened the boy. As soon as the lantern had been received and the candle relighted, Dick re-commenced.

He must have so many conflicting and engrossing interests, whilst I" Here her thought broke and dissolved like a rock-riven wave. She dared not yet confess that she had no interest in the world save what was linked with him. "If he comes not so often," she re-commenced her musings, "even then I ought to be quite content. I know he respects and esteems me; nay, that he has for me a warm regard.

This was the only misfortune that befell us, and we each of us felt the loss of an animal which had participated in all our dangers and privations. I more especially regretted the circumstance for the sake of the gentleman who gave him to me, and, on account of his superior size and activity. With the loss of poor Sailor, our misfortunes re-commenced.

"It is well said, Mustapha, so let him proceed." The Greek slave was then ordered in, and re-commenced as follows: Freedom was obtained at last; I flew to the sea-coast, chartered a small vessel, and chiding the winds as we scudded along, because they would not blow with a force equal to my impetuous desires, arrived at Cadiz.

I never go to sleep when you are saying poetry to me. Aren't you tired of carrying me?" "I am never tired of carrying you, Jack." "My own dear, sweet Queen Bess!" There was the sound of a long, loving kiss; and then the slow pacing up and down and the recitation re-commenced.

All writers agree as to the fact of Fra Bartolommeo's friendship with Raphael, but very few are decided as to its date. Raphael was in Florence in 1504, but then Fra Bartolommeo had not re-commenced painting, and would have no works in the convent to excite his admiration of the colouring.