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Page 337 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 337 - Would the happy spirit descend, From the realms of light and song, In the chamber or the street, As she looks among the blest, Should I fear to greet my friend Or to say
Page 102 - Museum authorities of course proved a primd facie case against me, and as my solicitor advised me to reserve my defence, owing to the difficulty of getting up my witness from Lichfield in reasonable time, I was duly committed for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. I had often read before that people had been committed for trial, but till that moment I had no idea what a very unpleasant sensation it really is. However, as I was a person of hitherto unblemished character, and...
Page 187 - Next morning there were two floggings, and one again the morning after. It was, in fact, a daily detail at the Hyde Park Barracks, which were, on the other hand, the headquarters of several hundreds of the most desperate felons in New South Wales. Tom and his draft were only to remain there until assigned into private service, but the rest had all been " turned into Government " as unmanageable by their masters, and were in barracks for re-punishment.
Page 72 - At that moment there came a knock at the door, and a small maid entered. " Ready, Mary ? "
Page 229 - You ask him," returned Ginger. " Got no money ? " said the sergeant. " That's what we mean by coming up to the mark, you know.
Page 229 - We ain't obliged to lay it on that thick," pursued the sergeant, in the same confidential tone. " It's all left to us. It needn't hurt him, need it, mates ? " "Not if he comes up to the mark; but he won't — no fear ! " said the ex-butcher, who had got the cat, and was practising with it upon the woodwork of the whippingframe. " We'll ask him,
Page 212 - The convict would pay the squatter with the only currency within his reach, namely that of stolen property. The squatter was sly publican and sly pawnbroker in one, and a pretty speeituen of his class had his wigwam and his black gin on a creek not a hundred miles from Castle Sullivan.
Page 29 - ... she heard him starting again with, " That reminds me of a thing that happened to me in Scotland once ..." After an eternity of silence there came more laughter ; then Sir Mark cut in with " You remember George Abercrombie in the Sixtieth ? He told me this yarn himself. I won't swear it's true ; and it's a long story, but I'll cut it as short as I can ..." Auriol came back to the drawing-room in despair and opened the piano. " I don't suppose it's in tune,
Page 230 - Strachau, for one, beheld a fellowmau fighting for a manhood that was more to him than life, against a degradation worse than death; and he wished himself back at his farm.