"The river is only about 100 yards wide," he urged; "I can soon get across. I shall leave Hercules to look after you all."

Of the anxiety endured during the last two months Isaac Hakkabut had known nothing.

I am glad to speak on that as a toast—“The City of New York.” Some say it has improved because I have been away.

Captain Corsican shook his head like a man who had no faith in the efficacy of chance in human affairs.

In that closing sentence she invites them to go on crusade with her to rescue the Holy Sepulcher.

“except it be constituted by the Pastor Emeritus.”

"Though I am very glad to see you," she said, at last, "I am sorry that my letter should have given you the trouble of this journey."

"The blood of Tiberius," said the signora in all but a whisper; "the blood of Tiberius flows in her veins. She is the last of the Neros!"

"Well, you see, I have not got any brothers," said Frank; "so all I can do is to sacrifice myself."

“Besides, my friends, unless I am mistaken, the wind has a slight tendency to veer a little more to the eastward, and we must not lose such an opportunity.”

"I think Sir Abraham will not be long in letting Master Bold know what he's about. I fancy I hear Sir Abraham cross-questioning him at the Common Pleas."

At this time there came from some quarter an offer to me of a commission in an Austrian cavalry regiment; and so it was apparently my destiny to be a soldier.

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