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Although the degraded man—degraded by the fact of his listening to such a proposition—did not at that moment give any positive reply to the…
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The Soldier of Fortune a Tale of the Crimean War Chapter LXVIII.—(Continued)
'Perfectly unnecessary,' observed the former, with an ironical bow. 'My name and character stand too high to render such a humiliation…
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'You will owe her a still greater debt,' observed our hero, 'your happiness. How gladly would I have endured all you have endured but for a…
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Like most persons who have seen much, of military life, the pretty continue had all her wits about her, and she noticed that, whilst the domestics…
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Beatrice turned exceedingly pale, and her cousin, alarmed at the imprudence of the girl, vainly attempted to check her volubility. She might…
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Glad to escape, the waiting maid hurried from the room, and descended to the apartment occupied by the servants, where, to her great delight, she…
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'Cuthbert Vavasseur in the Crimea?' she faltered. 'Yes, my lady.' 'And with the power as well as will…
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At the sight of the money, the boy began to laugh and dance, expressing the wildest delight. Never in the course of his existence had he…
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Peggy, like most—perhaps we should rather have said many—of her sex, war not insensible to admiration. It would have required more than a…
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The third morning after the carrying off of Lelia, Sir Edward and Frank who could hear no tidings of the yacht, determined to set out for the cap…
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When Charles parted with Lelia at the gate of the hospital, without entering for an instant to embrace his friend, he little imagined that the being whose…
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'Not one of them, by Jove,' exclaimed General Tawn. 'If the Government at home like to listen to such things, it's all well and good;…
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Each substance of a grief bath twenty shadows, Which show like grief itself, but are not so; For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects;…
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'They will-military justice. But do not regret, old friend. Life, after all, is but a dream; and it matters little whether it ends a few years…
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What need we have any friends, if we should never have need of them? They were the most needless creatures living if we should never have use, for them; and would most resemble sweet…
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The carcase of a freshly-slaughtered kid was roasting before the fire. The ferocious wretches watched it with looks of impatient hunger. When it…
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When foes the hand of menace shook. And friends betrayed—denied—forsook. Then woman, meekly constant still, Followed to Calvary's fatal hill—…
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'For a duel,' continued the lad with his scamp of a cousin Cuthbert, who tried every scheme to ruin him. There has been, or is to be, a court…
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That one was passed at last; and the noble Julian, who had unhesitatingly committed himself to the merey of the waves, was seen struggling,…
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The quality of merey is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes…
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