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It struck his sense of smell with the belief that he had smelt it before. Nothing is so strong to awaken memory as odor, and in less than half a minute the mind of the major leaped back to where he had smelt it before. It was the perfume of the dried poison of the devil-stick.,"My dear Etwald, if I did not know you so well, I should take you for a charlatan.",“Dear, dear!” said Miss Melling. “I think you had better get out before we have an accident.”,“Did you get your men?”,He interrupted her with an upheld hand.,"And yet he was a strong man," said Etwald, when he conveyed this intelligence. "He must have been taken by surprise.",Presently, Moses made for the yard and on his way, offered tribute to Betty by standing on his head on the mat at the door.,"You have certainly made out a strong case against this man," said Meg, after a pause, "but it is all theory. Your proofs?",“Here I stand upon this stage,"What, David, back again!" he said, ignoring the question asked by Sarby. "So you did not stay to dinner?",A low rumble of thunder was heard in the distance and a flash of lightning made the coal-oil lamp look like a bilious spot in the room.,As soon as they were settled in their country house, the merchant and his sons began to till the ground. Beauty rose every morning at four o'clock, and made haste to clean the house and prepare the dinner. She found her duties very painful and fatiguing at first, for she had not been accustomed to do the work of a servant; but in two months' time she had grown stronger, and the activity of her life gave her fresh health and colour. When her day's work was over, she amused herself with reading, or music; sometimes she sat down to her wheel, and sang to her spinning. Meanwhile her two sisters were wearied to death with the dulness of their life; they stayed in bed till ten o'clock, did nothing all day but saunter about, and for their only diversion talked with regret of their former fine clothes and friends. "Look at our young sister," they said to one another; "she is so low-minded and stupid, that she is quite content with her miserable condition.".