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...ect from me whom he is so wrapped up in, might bring it on perhaps. Which – and this is the secret I was going to tell you – is another reason for you... ...nce of all suspicion, and unbounded faith in her brother.’ ‘Poor thing!’ ‘However,’ pursued Mr. Grewgious, ‘it is not of her that I came to speak. It ... ...u.’ ‘Do you know,’ said Jasper, when he had pushed away his plate and glass, and had sat meditating for a few minutes: ‘do you know that I find some c... ...round to the windows again, and asked if he could look at one of them. On Neville’s opening it, he immediately sprang out, as if he were going aloft w... ...s hands upon his knees, thus stated his idea, with his usual manner of having got the statement by heart. ‘I cannot as yet make up my mind whether it ... ...icate with Mr. Tartar to warn him off from Neville? In which case, we might not only know the fact, but might 251 Charles Dickens know from Mr. Tarta...

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...ss than five leagues. The rude path, which originally formed their line of communication, had been widened for the passage of wagons; so that the dist... ...ir. It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the ... ...ery apprehension in instant and serious exer- tions. Although his alarming communication was not received without much secret terror by the listeners,... .... Magua seemed also content to rest the controversy as well as all further communication there, for he resumed the leaning attitude against the rock f... ...heir savage conquerors. Anxious to know the worst, and willing, in such an emergency, to try the po- tency of gold he overcame his reluctance to speak... ... awaited in silence the result of the extraordi- nary effect produced by a communication, which, as it now appeared, was so unexpected. For several mi...

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...nd Henderson were 20 The War of the Worlds with others in this attempt at communication. This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to s... ...med at the news in this, and went again to Waterloo station to find out if communication were restored. The omnibuses, carriages, cyclists, and innume... ...ght happen to her in my absence. My cousin I knew was brave enough for any emergency, but he was not the sort of man to realise danger quickly, to ris...

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...omestic virtues. He could not picture May Welland, in whatever conceivable emergency, hawking about her private difficulties and lavishing her confide... ...even more briefly replied: “Not yet.” Since then there had been no farther communication be- tween them, and he had built up within himself a kind of ... ...enerally understood that he could call on pow- erful influences in case of emergency, and that he had done so with success; and that evening, when Mrs... ...s, the invention of a flying machine, lighting by electricity , telephonic communication without wires, and other Arabian Night marvels. “I don’t care... ...o, you’d given up the thing you most wanted.” Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronge...

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...the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies o... ...rsation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments. Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks wer... ...safe with me; but pardon me if I express some surprise at so unnecessary a communication. Y ou must at least have felt that my being acquainted with i... ...linor’s distress. On the contrary it was a relief to her, to be spared the communication of what would give such afflic- tion to them, and to be saved... ...at for some time without saying a word. Elinor, persuaded that he had some communication to make in which her sister was concerned, impatiently expect... ... the assurance of her expecting mate- rial advantage to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed. “I have been more pained,” said she, “by ...

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...feel that I had a right to tell it, even to my guardian, unless some great emergency arose. It was a weight to bear alone; still my present duty appea... ...art to me in a singular light, to be sure. Caddy enjoyed the effect of her communication and cheerfully recounted the particulars of her own studies. ... ...an like aristocracy whom I now hold in my hand, there has been undivulged communication and association. The time might have been when I might have r... ...iness precaution, in case it should be necessary to recall the fact in any communication with Sir Leicester, that throughout our interview I have expr... ...nghorn. That’s the name, sir. I know the man, and know him to have been in communication with Bucket be fore, respecting a deceased person who had gi... ...reshment when an idea enters his mind. Mr. Bucket softly opens the door of communication be tween that room and the next and looks in. The library is...

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...ize the power that must drive a hull through all weathers at more than the emergency speed of the Cyclonic! The eye detects no joint in her skin plati... ...d Dane she is telling the liner all about it in International. Our General Communication dial has caught her talk and begins to eavesdrop. Captain Hod... ...ons” with factory chimneys. In air, as on earth, it is safest to fly high. EMERGENCY—There is only one rule of the road in air, earth, and water. Do y...

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...sms of his rage, on discovering his daughter’s criminal conduct, he made a communication of the whole to the senate. That body could do nothing in suc... ...could become no- ticeable or troublesome. 121 Thomas de Quincey any great emergency; these men transmitted heroic tradi- tions to their posterity; an... ...d temerity, fear and confidence, all spoke a common language in this great emergency; and Valerian marched towards the Euphrates with a fixed purpose ...

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...uch it till he throws it up.” “But I will take it from him; it is a terrible emergency and the act is thereby justified. And if it were not so, who wi... ...ou with it.” It sounded good! In this atmosphere of telephones and lightning communication with distant regions, I was breath ing the breath of life ... ...dy who wasn’t ten thousand miles away. The magician was hit hard; it was an emergency that had never happened in his experience before, and it corked... ...ch is 9 times 6?” “It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life days occurre... ...language — a language given us purposely that it may be tray us in times of emergency, when we have secrets which we want to keep. I knew that that t... ...mand, arranging it in such a way that I could make in stant use of it in an emergency. The forty men were divided into two shifts of twenty each, and...

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...rding to the refined conceptions of the time), no efficient doctors for an emergency, no company and no pursuits. Moreover, mechanical appliances in a... ...ranny that had come. The Council never hesitated, never faltered. Means of communication, land, buildings, govern- ments, municipalities, the territor... ... of the last two centuries. The little group of appliances for telegraphic communication attracted the Master so strongly that his delightfully prepar... ...stonished that he could have seen things in any other light. In that final emergency he debated, thrust debate resolutely aside, determined at all cos...

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...nnected by slight ties with the circumjacent country, Glasgow keeps open a communication with the whole land. Vast laboratories of encouragement to ma... ... it was his own fault, from not taking the customary precaution in such an emergency; that he ought to have stopped, and sate down until some person c... ...ndicated by Lord Carlisle, viz., advancing upon a new line of intellectual communication with the laboring classes, be the surest mode of retrieving t...

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... a trading schooner on a short tour of the islands, to the westward.” This communication was received in profound silence. Renouard forgot himself in ... ... of some kind when suddenly he thinks: Axe! In most ships there is a spare emergency axe kept in the master’s room in some locker or other… Up he jump...

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... not present himself as a candidate for elec- tion. Florine was herself in communication with the sheriff on the subject of her personal debts, and no... ...ght of Schmucke, our old master. I am sure he could be very useful in this emergency; he will endorse the notes. You must add to the four notes a lett...

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...the news- papers eminent solicitor. Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the ... ...among ‘em, though?’ ‘No. I occupy my own rooms, and have held scarcely any communication with them.’ ‘Odder and odder!’ said Mr Boffin. ‘Well, sir, to... ...t directly— ‘On the whole, I must beg you to excuse me from addressing any communication to Lord Snigsworth.’ ‘Bless you, bless you!’ says V eneering;... ...let us sing that we give up guess- ing the riddle altogether.’ ‘Are you in communication with this girl, Eugene, and is what these people say true?’ ‘... ...tence of such capital in a pillow being the last intelligible confidential communication made to her by the departed, be- fore succumbing to dropsical... ... said, looking up with some ti- midity into his face, ‘to think in such an emergency of the richest people we know, and the simplest.’ ‘Just so, Sophr...

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...like the bubbling of her inner mood. “Is that what you would do in such an emergency?” she enquired. Selden looked at her with solemnity. “I am here t... .... “I am here to prove to you,” he cried, “what I am capable of doing in an emergency!” “Walking a mile in an hour—you must own that the omnibus would ... ...about; all I say is: ‘Don’t let me see ‘em eat!’” The gist of this strange communication gave Lily a distinct thrill of pleasure. Under ordinary circu... ... was very welcome to Lily. It was the first time she had received a direct communication from Bellomont since the close of her last visit there, and s... ... the address stamped on the upper comer of the envelope. It was a business communication from the office of her aunt’s executors, and she wondered wha...

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...ll his adversary’s cards. “My lord, have you any commands?” asked Bernouin. “Yes, yes,” replied Mazarin. “Light me; I am going to the queen.” Bernouin... ...his letter had been conveyed by D’Artagnan and had ar- rived in time. The other was that which Laporte had placed in the hands of the Duke of Buckingh... ...azin uttered a profound sigh and went out to look for the ladder. Presently a good, solid, wooden ladder was placed against the window. “Now then,” sa... ...sts, then we are only two.” “Is Monsieur Aramis with D’Artagnan?” asked Lord de Winter. “No,” said Athos; “Monsieur Aramis does me the honor to share ... ...ose, he at least was already up. Six days had already passed out of the ten he had asked from Mordaunt; he was therefore occupied in revising his repl... ...rds, whilst Winter unlaced his leather cuirass, that he might dis- guise himself like the king. Charles, having proceeded with Aramis as with Athos, e... ...k only of yourself. You see, your friends are wakeful. I know not what we shall do yet, but four determined men can do much. Meanwhile, do not be surp...

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...would have sup posed that this wainscoted parlour, saving for the door of communication by which he had entered, was cut off and detached from all th... ...f stairs, the one upward, the other downward, which were the sole means of communication between that cham ber and the other portions of the house. W... ...f state removed, the sceptre locked up in its usual cupboard, the doors of communication be tween the three cellars thrown freely open, and the ‘Pren... ... other, turned pale, and held their breath. No man stirred. It was in this emergency that Mr Willet displayed some thing of that strength of mind and... ...ny nights. This is a secret which I trust to you in case of any unexpected emergency. You will not come, unless in case of strong necessity, to me; fr... ...roof five years before; nor had they in all that time held any commerce or communication with the old world from which they had fled. To labour in pea... ... sincere, never, after the morning’s experience, to return, or to hold any communication with their late companions. Others remained but to refresh th... ...cockade out of his hat; put it carefully in his pocket, ready for the next emergency; refreshed himself with a pinch of snuff; put up his box; and was...

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...ty, prevailing for the last time against the devious manoeuvring, the evil communications, the rotten expe- diency of a corrupted institution. For a f... ...he motionless flanges. “Hello, hello,” he exclaimed, “what’s all up now?” “Emergency brakes,” declared the conductor, catching up his cash box and thr... ...s the matter, dear?” she exclaimed. “I don’t know,” he answered. “Only the emergency brakes. Just a cow on the track, I guess. Don’t get scared. It is... ...ed to take on wood or water, or some- thing.” “Well, they wouldn’t use the emergency brakes for that, would they? Why, this train stopped almost in he... ...most in her own length. Pretty near slung me out the berth. Those were the emergency brakes. I heard some one say so.” From far out towards the front ... ...eir guns from ‘em and made ‘em stop the train. Even ordered ‘em to use the emergency gear, seems he knew all about it. Then he went back and uncoupled...

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...stguards, the Cus toms Officers and the harbor master, who kindly put me in communication with the men who had actually received the boxes. Their tal... ...as able to ask him about the arrival of the boxes. He, too put me at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was c... ...od appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who was seemingly prepared for such an emergency. Rushing over to the great iron bound oaken door, which Dr. Sew... ...g had placed at hand a bell which either of them was to sound in case of any emergency. When they had retired, Quincey, Godalming, and I arranged that...

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...printable Off-scouring of Scoundrels, would ye live for ever!” This is the Communication of Thought: how happy when there is any Thought to communicat... ...e see. Over night, an Aide-de-Camp of Lafayette’s, stationed here for such emergency, sends swift emissaries far and wide, to summon National Guards. ... ...orty-eight Sections have got their Central Committee; intended ‘for prompt communication. ’ To which Central Committee the Municipality, anxious to ha...