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I shall never dare, you must never dare and so " He who had once been "Gargoyle" suddenly dropped his head forward on his breast, muttering "and so, that is all." Evelyn Strang rose. She stood tall and imperious in the waning afternoon light. She was bereaved mother, anguished wife; she was a dreamer driven out of the temple of the dream, and what she had to do was desperate.
Alessandro passed his hand slowly over his forehead, as if trying to collect his thoughts before speaking, all the while keeping his eyes fixed on Ramona, with the same anguished look, convulsively holding both her hands in his. "Senorita," he said, "my Senorita!" Then he stopped. His tongue seemed to refuse him utterance; and this voice, this strange, hard, unresonant voice, whose voice was it?
'And reproach me always because you have to live in such a place, away from your friends, without a hope of the social success which was your dearest ambition? Her practical denial that she loved him wrung this taunt from his anguished heart. He repented the words as soon as they were spoken. 'What is the good? exclaimed Amy in irritation, rising and moving away from him.
It is a very long-drawn cry, beginning away down in the bass, dragging up slowly to an anguished treble note in a very minor key, and subsiding, despairingly, about half-way back to the bass. It is a sound that carries a very long way though not so far as from the place of Finn's captivity to the Sussex Downs and carries misery with it just as far as ever it can reach.
After the carols they lingered in the churchyard to greet their friends. If only she would make up her mind that Jack was dead, there would be no need for this anguished parting; then, though he had never contemplated it until a week before, he could ask Barbara to marry him.
Now he was suddenly brought face to face with the great central issue of his life, and the end, whatever that end might be, could not be the same in meaning, though it might be the same concretely. If he elected to let things be, then Bignold would die out there in the Gulch, starved, anguished, and alone.
Suppose that a murderer could and should perform a perfectly holy act, would it be any relief to his anguished conscience, if he should offer it as an oblation to Eternal Justice for the sin that is past? if he should plead it as an offset for having killed a man?
Even if she told him all that had passed he would not believe her; he would think she was suffering from some trick of her morbid fancy. 'If anything happens to me, she answered, with the dark, anguished eyes of a hunted beast, 'you will be to blame. 'I promise you that nothing will happen.
What on earth did chez-malades mean? Was he to answer yes or no? In his ignorance of her meaning, either reply might prove offensive. He reddened, fidgeted on his chair, looked about him with an anguished mute appeal for help. Mrs. Tootle repeated her question with emphasis and a change of countenance which he knew too well.
Men, stripped to the waist, grimy and shining with the sweat of hours, moving about in knots of three and four always in knots of three or four as if afraid to disintegrate leaned upon the rail and watched the approach of the crowded boats, looked down into pallid, anguished faces with their eager, hungry eyes, eyes that devoured the groups along the rail.
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