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I did not wish to leave the Comte de Toulouse in any personal fear, or expose him to be led away by his brother. I sent therefore for Valincourt, whom I knew intimately, to come and speak to me. He came half-dressed, terrified at the rumours flying over the town, and eagerly asked me what they all meant. I drew him close to me and said, "Listen attentively to me, and lose not a word.
Here the doors of the railway carriages were thrown open, and we were politely requested to alight. We stepped out upon a platform swarming with fierce gendarmes, whom I regarded attentively, wondering which of them was destined to become my protector. From the platform we were ushered into a large room communicating by a narrow passage with a second room, into which our baggage was being carried.
"We'll get on home now." "Home?" asked his son. "Yes, Montreal to-night," replied his father. "The leg has to be set." "Why don't you set it?" asked the boy. The river-master gazed at him attentively. "Well, I might, with your help," he said. "Come along." Eleven years had passed since Denzil's fall, and in that time much history had been made.
Tell me, dear aunt!" and she knelt beside her. So Miss Greylston told her niece the whole story, softening, as far as truth would permit, many of John's harsh speeches; but she was, not slow to blame herself. Annie listened attentively. Young as she was, her heart took in with the deepest sympathy the sorrow which shaded her beloved friends. "Oh!
Madame de Saint-Simon, still more surprised, listened attentively to the end, and replied that this horrible report was public, that she herself could see what consequences it would have, false and abominable as it might be, and feel whether it was not important that M. le Duc d'Orleans should be informed of it.
He led the way across a yard and down a passage to the stables, opened one of the doors, and, waiting outside himself, told me to look in. I found myself in a two-stall stable. In one of the stalls a horse was munching his corn; in the other an old man was lying asleep on the litter. I stooped and looked at him attentively. It was a withered, woe-begone face.
He listened attentively, but said little; and from time to time, whenever the conversation flagged, amused himself by examining his companions.
"Then I have never heard it before?" "Never from me." "Go on, please; I am ready." She folded her hands together on her knee, turned her face attentively to his, and unwittingly composed herself to listen to the sweet story so often told, and yet so hard to tell. Moor meant to woo her very gently, for he believed that love was new to her.
Fred had hard work to control his features. He wondered if the man was really a little simple-minded, or if the effects of his fall still confused him. He finally decided that both theories were right. For a moment he hesitated, wondering what to do. He wanted to get back into the passageway, and he did not want the German to see him doing it. As he thought, he studied the entrance attentively.
For a short time Erasmus found no answer to this statement, and Wolf's old nurse, who herself clung to the Protestants from complete conviction, and had listened attentively to his words, urged her young co-religionist, by all sorts of signs, to respect his friend's decision. The confession of his schoolmate had not been entirely without effect upon the young theologian.