There came a day when he was ordered, together with some other captured rebels, to march in the front rank of the Royal troops. A musket, had been thrust into his hands. He had taken it. He had marched. He did not want to be killed with circumstances of peculiar atrocity for ...
“And the father–the old man–who is now dead, was concerned in the rioting near the bridge—-“ “When Alan was struck? Mrs. Denton told me! How _abominable_!” Augustina raised her hands in mingled reprobation and distress. Helbeck looked annoyed. “That doesn’t matter one brass ...
He did not go home till five in the afternoon. As he entered the hall his mother gave him, with a rather sad smile, the following letter from Mademoiselle des Touches:– My dear Calyste,–The beautiful marquise has come; we count on you to help us celebrate her arrival. Claude, always...
He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name. 'Mr. Heathcliff?' I sa...
Said he, “We help a friend in need, And we have come to give a lead To you and Rio Grande. `”For you must give the field the slip, So never draw the rein, But keep him moving with the whip, And if he falter — set your lip And rouse him up again. `”But when you reac...
The 2013 convention is our convention. This is my motto and vision and I am so excited! This is a dream-come-true convention for me, and I hope you begin to feel the same as I tell you about how Laissez les bons temps rouler! will play out...
He also goes on to describe how his head got stuck in the cat−hole, but in the original he claims that his face turned blue and that he was being strangled when his father removed the door from its hinges to extricate him. Anyone who has attempted to remove a door from its hinges...
as I saw them. When I talked of patience and the larger scheme, they answered, “But then we shall all be dead”–and I could not make them see, what is so simple to my own mind, that that did not affect the question. Men who think in lifetimes are of no use to statesmanship....
of the bewildered barbarians, in exact time with his springing body and his prancing legs, the audience gave way to uncontrollable bursts of laughter; but when the back of his weapon broke the skull of one and almost in the same instant its edge clove the other’s body in twain, the how...
In the morning I sail for the Flowery Kingdom, and if the roses are waiting to strew my path it is more than they have done here for the past few years. When the train pulled out from home and I saw that crowd of loving, tearful faces fading away, I believe that for a few ...