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If the mother could no longer see the signs of a noble destiny upon her daughter's brow, she could study the transitions of her soul's development in the accents of that voice attuned to love.
"Do you hesitate?" he cried in accents of deep disappointment, perceiving Jocelyn waver. "You cannot misunderstand his wishes, father," said Aveline. "Let him speak for himself," Hugh Calveley exclaimed angrily.
The mighty-armed prince duly saluted all his seniors of Kuru's race and the other kings present there, and was honoured by them all in return. He then entered the excellent abode of his grand-mother Kunti." "Vaisampayana said, 'Entering the palace of the Pandavas the mighty-armed prince saluted his grand-mother in soothing and sweet accents.
When he got home he forgot to have his tea, crouching in dumb misery in his easy-chair, while the coals in the grate faded like the sunset from red to grey, and the dusk of twilight deepened into the gloom of night, relieved only by a gleam from the street-lamp. The noise of the door opening made him look up. "Beg pardon, sir, I didn't yer ye come in." It was Mary Ann's timid accents.
"My name is Edris," she answered, in low musical accents, that carried to his sense of hearing a suggestion, of something sweet and familiar. "Edris!" he repeated "Edris!" and gazing at her dreamily he raised her hands to his lips and kissed them gently "My fairest Edris! From whence do you come?" She met his eyes with a mild look of reproach and wonderment.
Laure essayed to console and brighten him. "Now don't try to comfort me," he answered on one occasion. "I'm a dead man." And the dead man began to drawl out his tale of woe, gradually rousing up as he talked, and, at last, speaking excitedly. But the dolent accents returned as he opened his proofs and read them. "I shall never make a name, sis."
He shook his cane over the backs of the straw-bottomed chairs; the sweet, mellow accents of his voice melted into loving protest a protest in which the fervor was not quenched in spite of the merry key in which it was pitched. "Protestants? Pouffe! pouffe! What is that? What is it to be a Protestant? Heretics, heretics, that is what you are. So you are deux affreuses heretiques? Ah, la! la!
And, even should our lives be spared, they will be spared to what? to see freedom banished, knowledge extinguished, science put under anathema, the world rolled backwards, and the universe become a vast whispering gallery, to re-echo only the accents of papal blasphemy. This atrocious and perfidious system is at this hour triumphant on the Continent of Europe. Britain only stands erect.
You are safe," said Tony, as he waded into the water to help him ashore. Charles was so much exhausted when he reached the land that he could not speak. Captain Sedley, who had observed the occurrence from his library window, hastened down to the beach. The penitent Zephyr, in his agony, threw himself on his knees before him, and in piteous, broken accents besought his pardon.
We said, at the conclusion of the last chapter, that a female form appeared at the door of Moultrassie Hall; and that the well-known accents of Alice Bridgenorth were heard to hail the return of her father, from what she naturally dreaded as a perilous visit to the Castle of Martindale.
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