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"It's no concern of mine, of course; but you are all good creatures, and, somehow, I should like to be with you." So Tom stayed; and what thoughts passed through his heart are no concern of ours. Frank put the cup to the old man's lips; the lips closed, sipped, then opened ... the jaw had fallen. "Gone," said Grace quietly. Frank paused, awe-struck. "Go on, sir," said she, in a low voice.
Where in thunder are the fools who keep grasshoppers in bed! You pumpkinhead!" The janitor answered by explaining that he did not know anything about it. "You can't get away with Did-not-know," and I followed this thundering by throwing away the broom. The awe-struck janitor shouldered the broom and faded away.
A baleful light burned in his keen gray eyes. His lips were thick, full, purple, and wistful. "My people may look upon me," he said, in a strangely affable voice, standing forward and smiling with a curious half-cruel, half-compassionate smile upon his awe-struck followers.
Finally came the most interesting, the most intimate of all her treasures an album which she allowed him hurriedly to glimpse through, forbidding him, however, even to look at certain of the pages. It was a volume modestly bound in dark leather with silver clasps; but Rafael gazed upon it as on a wonderful fetish, and with all the awe-struck adoration inspired by great names.
He hid nothing from her, but as he went on he made her understand that it was his intention to conceal the whole deed, to say nothing of it, so that the perpetrator should escape punishment, if it might be possible. She listened in awe-struck silence as she heard the tale of her mother's guilt.
And she held up to her eyes, as though fascinated by it, the parchment scroll, and read aloud in a voice so awe-struck that it did not seem to be her voice at all: 'He who shall violate this tomb, he who shall steal this amulet, hallowed as a love-token between me and my dead wife, he who shall dare to lay a sacrilegious hand upon this cross, stands cursed by God, cursed by love, and cursed by me, Philip Aylwin, lying here.
"In a common way, perhaps not: but you cannot think what a changed man he is, Frolich. He is so humbled, so melancholy, so awe-struck, that he is not like the same man." "He may not be the better for that. He was more frightened than anybody at the moment the owl cried, on your betrothment night, when you fancied that Nipen had carried off Oddo.
"Can they hear us?" whispered Luigi in an awe-struck whisper. Craig laughed. "No, not yet. But I have only to touch this other switch, and I could produce an effect in that room that would rival the famous writing on Belshazzar's wall only it would be a voice from the wall instead of writing." "They seem to be waiting for someone," said Vincenzo.
"What's the matter did Shirley hurt herself?" asked Rosemary in alarm. Sarah shut the door and looked at her older sister queerly. "Promise you won't tell? Cross-your-heart-hope-to-die?" she urged. Rosemary sat down on the bed. "Is it good or bad?" she asked cautiously. "Bad!" cried Shirley in an awe-struck tone. "Awfully bad. Isn't it, Sarah?" Sarah nodded hopelessly.
They were summoned by Miss Scarborough, who seemed to feel heavily the awful solemnity of the occasion. "I am sure he is going to do something very dreadful this time," she whispered to Mr. Grey, who seemed himself to be a little awe-struck, and did not answer her. At two o'clock they all met again at lunch and Mr. Grey was silent, and in truth very unhappy.
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