Captain Cutler was a far less plausible and composed witness than Sir Wilson, but his account of the opening incidents was solidly the same.
His face was composed and occupied, but his nose-tip still had the air of being the most mobile part of his face, as if it had just turned from left to right like an elephant's proboscis.
But his methods of amusement were so dreaded by older persons that more than one family was very thankful to have him complete his studies and study law in Paris.
Then she spoke to one of the two older women behind the counter; and he recognized in the accents certain qualities of his own voice; softened and sweetened, but his own.
Cruelly sweet, indeed, she had been to him that morning; but his thoughts of a penance in store for her were tempered by an ache: .
I was about to say something in Armenian," said I.
He realized that he not only had sacrificed his treasure; but his life as well.
He thought of everybody's claims and strivings, but his own.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
But his cousin is of a different mould, and ten times as dangerous.
But his counsels, and his influence, and above all his warehousemen, well practised in beating carpets, were of true service to us.
But his memory is the most remarkable peculiarity, for when his sister conned her lessons at home, baby Oscar, less than two years old, would recite all he heard her read.
He gave concerts, in which he sang in a nasal voice; but his "drawing feat" was embracing the women who visited him.
But his master or guardian chased the frown by exclaiming-- 'You'll be the favourite among us, Hareton!
Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.
He is a tall and stately king,' said Harold, 'but his end is near.
He, thinking his end is near, cries aloud to him for mercy; but his cry is of no avail, nor anything that he can say.
This news is not pleasing to the King, and he is very sorry and full of grief; but his heart is so lightened by the pleasure he takes in the Queen's return, that his grief concludes in joy.
The knight himself is fully armed, but his shield is not whole.
But his satisfaction is cut short by those who had taken and bound his guest, and the king tells them they have come in an evil hour, for they shall all be killed and confounded.
Thus, even when believing him to be in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, to such a degree that they no longer watched over him.
But his valour we know only from his one personal exploit at York; his piety was consistent with a base murder.
We have a sheriff and not a viscount; but his district is more commonly called a county than a shire.
William gained his immediate point; but his successors on the English throne paid the penalty.
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