Ventured
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'What passion there was in the eyes of that poor Madame de Renal,' Julien said to himself, 'when, even after six months of intimate relations, she
ventured
to receive a letter from me!Never once, I am sure, did she look at me with a laugh in her eyes.'
This use of the singular pronoun made him lose his head, or at least his suspicions vanished; he
ventured
to clasp in his arms this girl who was so beautiful and inspired such respect in him.
She had made up her mind that if he
ventured
to come to her with the aid of the gardener's ladder, as she had bidden him, she would give herself to him.
On mature reflection, she had decided that he was a creature, if not altogether common, at any rate not sufficiently conspicuous to deserve all the strange follies which she had
ventured
to commit for him.
It was only in fear and trembling and safely concealed behind a big oak tree that he
ventured
to raise his eyes to the window of Mademoiselle de La Mole's room.
One day, he
ventured
to suggest to Julien that this allegation, whether true or false, would be an excellent line of defence.
She informed him that, on the day of the trial, M. de Valenod, having in his pocket his appointment as Prefect, had
ventured
to defy M. de Frilair and indulge himself in the pleasure of condemning Julien to death.
The elder sister made one or two movements in her chair, before she
ventured
to say, in a tone which partook in no small measure of triumph,-"General Gates has been less fortunate with the earl, than with General Burgoyne."
Nothing, however, seemed to interfere with the pursuits of this indefatigable trader, who, with a view to dispose of certain articles for which he could only find purchasers in the very wealthiest families of the county, had now braved the fury of the tempest, and
ventured
to cross the half mile between his own residence and the house of Mr. Wharton.
Mr. Wharton
ventured
to inquire, yet speaking in a low tone.
During the movements created by the conclusion of the purchase, Captain Wharton had
ventured
to draw aside the curtain, so as to admit a view of his person, and he now inquired of the peddler, who had begun to collect the scattered goods, at what time he had left the city.
Frances
ventured
to throw a timid glance at his figure as he entered, and saw at once the man from whose scrutiny Harvey Birch had warned them there was so much to be apprehended.
"I came out, as my father has mentioned, to see my friends, understanding your parties to be at Peekskill, and near the Highlands, or surely I would not have ventured."
Henry bowed to this remark in distant silence, but Sarah
ventured
to urge something in behalf of her brother.
To this note he even
ventured
to affix his own initials, E H, though he had disguised the hand, under a belief that, as he knew himself to be suspected by his countrymen, it might serve to give more weight to his warning.
Dunwoodie, observing that the remnant of the Hessians had again
ventured
on the plain, led on in pursuit, and easily overtaking their light and half-fed horses, soon destroyed the remainder of the detachment.
Frances moved lightly before them, and, with an averted face, she held open the door for their passage to the bed; it was only as the major touched her garments, on entering the room, that she
ventured
to raise her mild blue eyes to his face.
Frances, impelled by a restless inquietude, now timidly
ventured
on the piazza of the cottage.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he
ventured
to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
As reflux was a disorder with which Katy was not acquainted, she thought it prudent to be silent; yet burning with curiosity to know the meaning of certain portentous lights to which the other so often alluded, she
ventured
to ask,-"If them lights he spoke of were what was called northern lights in these parts?"
She had
ventured
lightly into the apartment, and busied herself for a few minutes in arranging the tables, and the nourishment provided for the patient, hardly conscious of what she was doing, and possibly dreaming that these little feminine offices were performed for another.
A few adventurous spirits were already beginning to make inroads in those customs which had so long invaded the comforts of the fair sex; and the youthful girl had
ventured
to trust her beauty to the height which nature had bestowed.
A glow of fire lighted the countenance of both at the same instant, and the blue eye of Frances met the brilliant black one of her guest for a single moment, and both fell in abashed confusion on the carpet; they advanced, however, until they met, and had taken each other's hand, before either
ventured
again to look her companion in the face.
Once more Frances
ventured
to look her guest in the face, and again she met the piercing eyes bent on her, as if to search her inmost heart.
The good nature and the personal affection of Betty for the offender, restrained her, for some time, from answering his innuendoes, until Lawton, having
ventured
to admit a piece of the black meat into his mouth, inquired, with the affectation of a spoiled child,-"What kind of animal might this have been when living, Mrs. Flanagan?"
Finding, however, there was no pursuit, which indeed would have been impracticable for horse, the leader
ventured
to call his band together with a whistle, and in a short time he succeeded in collecting his discomfited party, at a point where they had but little to apprehend from any enemy.
More than once she suggested to her companion, that, as the fighting seemed to be over, the proper time for plunder had arrived, but the veteran acquainted her with his orders, and remained inflexible and immovable; until the washerwoman, observing Lawton come round the wing of the building with Sarah,
ventured
amongst the warriors.
We both thought it was the order of General Heath, to attack and molest the enemy whenever he
ventured
out of his nest."
The sweat has started from limbs that seemed already drained of their moisture; and if I
ventured
to the hole that admitted air through grates of iron to look out upon the smiles of nature, which God has bestowed for the meanest of His creatures, the gibbet has glared before my eyes, like an evil conscience harrowing the soul of a dying man.
Frances listened anxiously to the retreating footsteps of his horse, and, as they died upon her ear, she
ventured
from her place of secrecy, and advanced a short distance into the field, where, startled at the gloom, and appalled with the dreariness of the prospect, she paused to reflect on what she had undertaken.
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