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After this pantomime, she exclaimed, in the lowest and most musical of tones, "Oh! how hateful you are!" Then she cried out with animation, "I believe you did it on purpose!" Finally, she sank back again, with a soft laugh and sparkling eyes, at the same time stretching out her right arm towards him and placing her hand on his, with a whispered, "There, then!"
'Antakia is not nearly so great a place as Beiroot, said the Queen; 'yet once Antakia was much larger than Stamboul; as large, perhaps, as your great city. 'And far more beautiful than either, said Tancred. 'Ah! you have heard of these things! exclaimed the Queen, with much animation.
Then with a sudden feeling almost of happiness he discovered that Betty Ashton was on his right. She did not happen to be looking toward him at the moment, but was talking to John Everett with more animation than he had ever before seen her show. Betty had no knowledge of Anthony's having been invited to Meg's Camp Fire dinner.
Another miscellany, commenced in 1824, and more popular than the 'Revue' the 'Globe' bore the same features in a polemic of greater animation and variety. Some young doctrinarians, associated with other writers of the same class, and animated by the same spirit, although with primary ideas and ultimate tendencies of a very different character, were the ordinary editors.
Gradually, as the time went by and the stranger did not appear, her animation vanished; she was silent, and her expression was one of disappointment. "No one's going to come!" she said suddenly, and she laughed shortly. "I only made up the whole thing to tell you, to see what you'd say." "Then let's go!" said Pelle quietly, and he took her hand.
There were flowers on the table; and the statue of Mercury, Pancaldi's present, stood overtopping them. "May the god of luck preside over our repast," said Renine. He was full of animation and expressed his great delight at having her sitting opposite him: "Yes," he exclaimed, "I had to resort to powerful means and attract you by the bait of the most fabulous enterprises.
I was only half re-assured by these expressions; I could not believe that the over-quick flow of her blood was a sign of health, or that her burning cheeks denoted convalescence. But I had no fears of an immediate catastrophe; nay, I persuaded myself that she would ultimately recover. And thus cheerfulness reigned in our little society. Idris conversed with animation on a thousand topics.
Occasionally the figure of a man would move out of the apparent darkness of the room beyond. The light would fan in patches on his face. You could see his lips moving as he spoke to the occupant of the desk; you might even trace the faint animation as it crept into the face of the person thus addressed. But it would only last for a few moments.
At the season when the birds were on the island, all was gaiety, bustle; and noise, but after their departure it was quiet and solitude. I used to long for their arrival, and was delighted with the animation which gladdened the island, the male birds diving in every direction after fish, wheeling and soaring in the air, and uttering loud cries, which were responded to by their mates on the nests.
She was talking with great animation with the stranger. "His Eminence, then, orders me " said the lady. "To return instantly to England, and to inform him as soon as the duke leaves London." "And as to my other instructions?" asked the fair traveler. "They are contained in this box, which you will not open until you are on the other side of the Channel." "Very well; and you what will you do?"
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