” “It was a mistake,” she faltered. He fancied that the whole fabric of the bridge was cracking over head,—that the arch was tumbling upon him,—that the torrent was swelling around him, whirling him off, and about to bury him in the deafening abyss. It took a deal of thought to cast a comprehensive cable, for it had to include where Spurlock was, what he was doing, and the fact that O'Higgins's letter of credit would not now carry him and Spurlock to San Francisco. But his own situation was too perilous to admit of his rendering any assistance to the ill-fated waterman. We have to get them to let us in for the profits of their business, and in return we ask them to—dinner. The wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. He laughs at locks and bolts; and the more carefully you guard your premises from him, the more likely are you to insure an attack. “I’ll run, too,” she volunteered. Anna, who was disposed to be sharply critical, could find no fault with it. After encountering various hardships and privations for a long time, during which he had no means of communicating with England, he, at length, found his way to Paris, where he was taken notice of by Cardinal Dubois, who employed him as one of his secretaries, and subsequently advanced to the service of Philip of Orleans, from whom he received a commission.
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