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He!.... And I am the cause!".... Then, returning the letters and the will to the drawer, she closed it and rose, saying aloud: "No. It shall not be. I will prevent it, if I have to cast myself between them. I do not wish it! I do not wish it!" It was easy to utter such words. But the execution of them was less easy.
Will they not be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let us be gone." "Yes," I said, "let us be gone." "For the love of God, Montresor!" "Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" But to these words I harkened in vain for a reply. I grew impatient. I called aloud: "Fortunato!" No answer. I called again: "Fortunato!" No answer still.
"Oh, Miss Cuthbert, did you really say that perhaps you would let me stay at Green Gables?" she said, in a breathless whisper, as if speaking aloud might shatter the glorious possibility. "Did you really say it? Or did I only imagine that you did?"
Father, mother gone, voices silent forever, loved voices never to be forgotten; and yet, in those days there had been no Jeanne. "Jeanne!" he said aloud. "Jeanne!" Then he was silent, and his nerves grew tense. The silence was suddenly broken, not rudely but stealthily as a thief breaks it, or as one who knows that crime is best accomplished in the night; a key was being fumbled into the lock.
The royal children were brought in, and his majesty said to the queen, "Behold thou Sanehat has come as an Amu, whom the Sati have produced." She cried aloud, and the royal children spake with one voice, saying, before his majesty, "Verily it is not so, O king, my lord." Said his majesty, "It is verily he."
Were I an emotional man I would have kissed the little strip of shingle, as it was I contented myself with a deep sigh of thanksgiving. My guide stood on the sand, smoothing the long, shapeless garment he wore against his spare body. He had taken a small book from his pocket and was mumbling some unintelligible words aloud.
Then they saw a dim figure move forward and stand still. Then they heard a voice begin to pray aloud, as if the owner, being accustomed to utter solitude, did not think of earthly hearers. "Come," Marco said. And they went forward. Because the stars were so many and the air so clear, the priest heard their feet on the path, and saw them almost as soon as he heard them.
But there, ladies will be curious and" this to himself "I must be more careful. Lucky I didn't talk aloud." Then he called her in, and having inspected the chamber narrowly, proceeded to make certain arrangements.
I was up with her because her foot was so bad, and I warmed the poultices. Frank groaned aloud, unmindful of the boy looking so curiously at him, for that was the time when he had heard the sound like a human voice is distress.
Although hungering for his boy, Issachar forebore to disturb young Abraham's studies until a bitter illness came to him, and in his gloom and solitude his great want burst from his lips, and he said aloud: "Almighty Father! What will it avail to these old bones if the Temple be rebuilded, and I die without placing my hands on the eyelids of my boy and blessing him in Thy name?
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