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Now you are laughing, Babache, but remember, I am not incredulous like you French I am Scotch and Spanish " "But Gaston did not melt away. He grasped your hands and " Francezka again hid her face upon the dog's sleek head, and with her face so averted continued
The Revolution itself was a genuine and sincere effort on the part of the Russian people to avert the disaster and shame of a separate peace; to serve the Allied cause with all the fidelity of which they were capable. There would have been a separate peace if the old régime had remained in power a few weeks longer and the Revolution been averted.
"You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'. How came the Injins to kill HIM, their friend?" "They didn't," returned Jim, with ominously averted eyes.
"I reckon she'll get some fun out of her job, no matter what that job is." It was something of a jog to The Hollow people to find Miss Lowe actually settled at Trouble Neck. They had looked upon the possibility of her coming as an evil which threatened but might be averted.
But his immobility, the thick elbow on the table, the abrupt, unhappy voice, the shaded and averted face grew more and more impressive. He kept inscrutably silent for a moment, and then, placing me in a ship of a certain size, at sea, under conditions of weather, season, locality, etc. all very clear and precise ordered me to execute a certain manoeuvre.
In brief, Monsieur Peloux his guilty eyes averted, the shame-tears streaming afresh from his bald head presented his criminal demand and stated the sum that he would pay for its gratification. This sum being in keeping with his own estimate of what it paid for was so much in excess of the hireling's views concerning the value of a mere cat-killing that he fairly jumped at it.
No faces are averted, no one suspects my social standing. A thrill of kindness is in every voice. What can I do? Must I advertise myself as smitten with a plague? I dare not tell you of the favors that society bestows upon me. It is but little more than a month since I came to Philadelphia, and during that short period I have in some strange way become popular.
Fenayrou as "a soft paste" that could be moulded equally well to vice or virtue, a woman destitute of real feeling or strength of will, who, under the direction of her husband, carried out implicitly, precisely and carefully her part in an atrocious murder, whose only effort to prevent the commission of such a deed was to slip away into a church a few minutes before she was to meet the man she was decoying to his death, and pray that his murder might be averted.
"Fresh news arrived, perhaps," replied her friend. "The Christians' God grant that this war may be averted!" "Amen, if it be His will," said a deep voice behind the girls, who turned and found the hermit standing at their side.
The pony was tired, and the hills very long and steep, and the air sultrier than ever, for now the breeze began to fail entirely. It seemed as if this miserable drive would never be done, as if poor Dick would never be able to go away and be comfortably wretched by himself; for all his desire was to escape from her presence and the reproach of her averted looks.
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