the delivery of these skillful rhymes was accompanied on the part of the stranger by a regular rise and fall of his right hand which terminated at the descent by suffering the fingers to dwell a moment on the leaves of the little volume

you shall have a shilling extra i will take you at the regular pace gentlemen shillings don't pay for putting on the steam like that larry's cab was standing next to ours he flung open the door and said

it occurred to the girl that precautions might still have to be taken but in another moment she was undeceived i thought old ruthven smith would be shocked if he knew the safe refuge i have for you

the first intimation usanga had that all was not well with him was when the girl slipped suddenly to his side and grasped the control and at the same instant steel like fingers seized his throat a brown hand shot down with a keen blade and severed the strap about his waist

he had said a little prayer for everybody and had fallen asleep there on the flower decked balcony when he awoke he was again in his room and the candles were being lit

but he did his best to keep up with his host meanwhile his misgivings in regard to mousqueton recurred to his mind and with greater force because mousqueton though he did not himself wait on the table which would have been beneath him in his new position appeared at the door from time to time

where is he she did not reply her eyes had narrowed a little as the colonel's were sometimes prone to do and her lips were pressed firmly together answer me he shouted waving his arms threateningly miss stearne mary louise said turning to the principal

that is because he believes that a woman will be gentle that she will understand he wants most of all understanding when the moment of sophistication came to george willard

the crash of the blow rang through the hall the german's face fell forward his hand up and blood oozing through his fingers the count settled down in his chair once more my boy was disfigured by the blow

it only bloomed every five years and then bore but a single rose but oh such a rose its scent was so sweet that when you smelt it you forgot all your cares and troubles and he had also a nightingale

his gilded coach and valuable blood horses his liveried domestics and his luxurious entertainments with this diminution of splendour came a diminution of renown

it follows one that there can be no cause which either extrinsically or intrinsically besides the perfection of his own nature moves god to act

but now he heard the avalanche stirring the whispering slither of the first pebbles he would grow old swiftly thunderously kitty's youth would shore up the debacle suspend it indefinitely

the schoolmaster carried her to an inn near by where she was put to bed and doctored under his care for she was very weak she told him all the story of their wanderings

mister rushworth had set off early with the great news for sotherton and she had fondly hoped for such an immediate eclaircissement as might save him the trouble of ever coming back again but they had seen no one from the parsonage not a creature

combined with ineffable fineness of beauty dragging yourself away go to the head of the ribbon fall thence across the beautiful ribbon creek basin to the big oak flat stage road

and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty to recommend only such measures as after the most mature deliberation they really thought prudent and advisable

the ship had a poor time last night steam was ordered but the floe began breaking up fast at one a m and the rest of the night was passed in struggling with ice anchors steam was reported ready just as the ship broke adrift

a wild but faint luminosity mingled with stars and flashes of brilliance the whole trooping unanimously eastward as if in haste with elfin momentous purpose a boundless congregation in the sweep of a strong oceanic current

i cannot describe her features for she was heavily veiled neither can i describe her figure except to say that she is tall and slender but her dress i remember to the last detail though i am not usually so observant

as well as me would be we should marry she is a wide awake young lady and nothing the worse for that i'm a bit that way myself and so very little courtship has sufficed she is a splendid beauty and when you see her you'll say any fellow might be proud of such a bride

she said turning to the others there are sure to be some girls in the senior class who would resent it neither class has played tricks on the other since peace was declared

the next morning he met burne hurrying along mc cosh walk after a recitation whither bound tsar over to the prince office to see ferrenby

by an unknown author the characters of this drama that of king lear and especially of cordelia not only were not created by shakespeare but have been strikingly weakened and deprived of force by him as compared with their appearance in the older drama

at the present stage of civilization constitutes an embryonic impediment the assertion of ecclesiastics that without the aid of religious learning and influence our civilization would have been retarded is a statement

laura stop think suppose i loved you yet suppose i hated my fate what can i do i am broken by the war i have lost everything almost

so i sent for simpson and margery to the dining room that evening when the master was safely out of ear shot and told them that for reasons which i could not fully explain a very incorrect description of my appearance had been given him

and everything ready for migrating at the shortest notice

they told me they was going to visit big hand and find out for sure whether he meant to join the french in fighting the english or make a peace treaty with england i reckon those two would ha gone out on the war path at a nod from big hand

that can only be done by stratagem and by catching him when he is not surrounded by these people for suppose he were apprehended we have no proof against him he is not even so far as we know or as the facts appear to us

or one may compare the process to a net that has surrounded and that is drawn continually closer and closer upon a great and varied multitude of men we may cherish animosities we may declare imperishable distances we may plot and counter plot

was a figurative term meaning an aged and mouldy joke i turned pale at that for i have made many jokes to pass the weary time and some of them could have been of that sort though i had honestly supposed that they were new when i made them

the three of us went back towards the pavilion at some distance from the building the reporter made us stop and pointing to a small clump of trees to the right of us said that's where the murderer came from to get into the pavilion

no more shall the brown men of the south move like the ants in lines to quiet men with olives or madden men with vines

for i want the grass mown in one of my meadows to morrow at these words the youth's heart sank for he had never been trained either as a smith or a joiner

when she knew that he would never again sit before his table binding uncut pamphlets he had sold his happiness for money he had bartered all his tardy romance for some miserable banknotes he had not foreseen that it would be like this a vast regret welled up within him

under the name of gore he is now a trifle better wrote miss berengaria but having suffered from great privations he is still ill and so far as i can see is likely to keep to his bed for some time payne is attending to him

when one dreams and in the dream suspects that he dreams the suspicion never fails to confirm itself and the sleeper is almost immediately aroused thus novalis errs

what cried the sheriff angrily they are robbers and outlaws and every subject of the king has a right to slay them

to heaven and earth if heaven and earth cannot make such spasmodic actings last long how much less can man