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A figure, robed from head to foot in a long sable robe, sat upon the rude seat beside the well; sat so still, so motionless, that coming upon it abruptly in that strange place, the heart beat irregularly at an apparition so dark in hue and so death-like in its repose.
Abandoning that field abruptly, he said: "What I urge is that you ought not to trust too much to accidental recoveries like that of the Maginnis child. If faith-healing is a mistake it may do a great deal of harm." Phillida's eyes fell to the table, and she fingered a paper-weight with manifest emotion. "What you say in regard to responsibility is true, Philip.
By a great effort he steadied himself and abruptly sat down in the snow. He was just off the track and his back was against a bush. Leaning forward he drew his knees up and clasped his arms about them, and remained rocking himself slowly to and fro. And, as he sat, he felt something moist and warm saturating his clothes about his chest.
"What!" he exclaimed, "and do you ever pray?" "Sometimes," said the major. "Our religion commands us to pray always, but we pray in secret, and not in public, except on Sundays." One of his attendants here abruptly asked, what a Christian was "Why, a kafir," rejoined the governor. "Where is your Jew servant?" he asked, "you ought to let us see him."
"So I heard you say to Lady Caroline." "Mark Brand was a cousin of your mother's," said Mr. Colwyn, abruptly; "and a bad lot. As for these sons of his, I know nothing about them absolutely nothing. But their mother " he shook his head significantly. "We saw them to day," said Janetta. "Ah, an accident of that kind would be a shock to her: she does not look strong.
"Happy, have you? and I " the girl stopped short her tone had been that of sadness and reproach, and she stopped why, she knew not, but she felt her heart sink within her. Fanny suffered him to pass her, and he went straight to his room. Her eyes followed him wistfully: it was not his habit to leave her thus abruptly.
Lady Montbarry abruptly lifted her hands with a gesture of entreaty. 'Ah, Miss Lockwood, don't waste time by talking of his wife! Answer my plain question, plainly! 'Let me answer her, Henry whispered. 'I will undertake to speak plainly enough. Agnes refused by a gesture. Lady Montbarry's interruption had roused her sense of what was due to herself. She resumed her reply in plainer terms.
To the butler, who entered, he said: "See if Mr. Jefferson is still in the house. If he is, tell him I would like to see him here at once." The man disappeared, and Ryder strode angrily up and down the room with the letters in his hand. Then, turning abruptly on Stott, he said: "And now, sir, I think nothing more remains to be said. I shall keep these letters, as they are my property."
Once, for instance, as the Prince leaned upon, his shoulder waiting, whilst the attendants made ready the barge that was to carry them down the river to the city, he said, abruptly: "Myles, what thinkest thou of us all? Doth not thy honesty hold us in contempt?" "Nay, Highness," said Myles. "How could I hold contempt?"
And when, finally, she escaped her thoughts in sleep, it was only to encounter them again in troubled dreams. She was awakened abruptly by a terrific noise. Oh, Lord! what was it? She sat up. It sounded as if the house were falling down.
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