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You who have sat at our table, you who have smiled in our faces " "Stop, Mr. Wrandall!" commanded Sara, noting the ashen face of the girl. "Don't let the fact escape you that I am the guilty person. Don't forget that she owed her freedom, if not her life to me. I alone kept her from giving herself up to the law. All that has transpired since that night in March must be placed to my account.
It was the bursting of the storm of passion, which even his will could no longer restrain. But it was the whole storm, for he went no further. It was Diane who spoke next. Her cheeks had assumed an ashen hue, and her lips trembled so that she could scarcely frame her words. "What do you mean?" she gasped. "Tut!
But there was nothing to see, not a shadow to catch the eye. The breeze freshened somewhat about midnight, and the air was made pleasant by the musical noises of running waters. I fell asleep an hour before dawn, and when I awoke the early ashen line was brightening in the east. The birth of the day is rapid in those parallels, and the light of the morning was soon all over sea and sky.
The soft twilight grew deeper and deeper every moment, changing the rosy hues of the west into a pale ashen gray, over which hung the lamp of love, the evening star, which shines so brightly and sets so soon, and ever the sooner as it hastens to become again the morning star of a brighter day.
He looked across at the colonel with ashen face, and then swung round apprehensively toward the door. "Did you hear that?" he whispered. "I heard it thank the lord!" said the colonel, and fetched a long sigh. Pinto gazed at him in amazement. "Why," he said in a low voice, "that was Jack o' Judgment!" "I know," said the colonel nodding; "but I still thank the lord!"
Chatfield, what has the Pike come back for?" repeated Audrey, coming nearer. "Come now hadn't you better tell?" "It is the Pike," remarked Copplestone. "Look there! And they're going to send in a boat. Better be quick, Chatfield." The agent turned an ashen face towards the yacht.
The prisoner fell back upon the seat from which he had half risen in his anxiety, and his dark face assumed an ashen hue. What he thought could only be surmised. Perhaps, knowing his innocence, he had not believed conviction possible; perhaps, conscious of guilt, he dreaded the punishment, the extent of which was optional with the judge, within very wide limits.
It was six o'clock when from an opposite entrance the miller at last came, jaded and broken, into his wife's presence. "It is lost forever," he said, with an ashen cheek and a quiver in his stern voice. "We have looked with lanterns everywhere; it is gone the little maiden's portion and all!" His wife put the money into his hand, and told him how it had come to her.
"It's Lawler! I'd know him among a million! An' somethin's happened at the Wolf. That's where the shootin' is! Warden," he said, nervously; "it looks like there's goin' to be hell to pay!" Warden's face was ashen, but he laughed. "Don't worry, Singleton; Slade will take care of Lawler," he said. But the words carried no conviction with them they had been uttered without expression.
He would have given much to have had Father Paul at this bedside for one brief hour, the more so as he saw the shrinking and terror creeping over the drawn, ashen face. Did his guilty soul know itself to be standing on the verge of eternity? and did the wretched man feel the horror of great darkness infolding him already? All at once he spoke, and his words were like a cry of terror. "Alicia!
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