 | Margaret Coult - 1917 - 458 Seiten
...her by the hand, compelled her to go with me. She 15 complied with great reluctance, and not without reproaches to herself for retarding my flight. The...began to fall upon us, though in no great quantity. I looked back ; a dense dark mist seemed to be following us, spreading itself over the country like a... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 Seiten
...that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely refused to leave her ; and, taking her by the hand, I led her on. She complied with great reluctance,...ashes now began to fall upon us, though in no great quantities. I turned my head, and observed behind us a thick smoke, which came rolling after us like... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1888 - 536 Seiten
...that she was not the occasion of mine. But I absolutely refused to leave her, and, taking her by the hand, I led her on ; she complied with great reluctance,...for retarding my flight. The ashes now began to fall on us, though in no great quantity. I turned my head, and observed behind us a thick smoke, which came... | |
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I might easily do : as for herself, she said, her age and corpulency rendered all attempts of that sort impossible. However, she would willingly meet death if she could have the satisfaction of seeing that she was not the occasion of mine. 
