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And still retaining his grasp, and leading Sidney, who was now subdued, awed, and a prey to new and wild suspicions, he moved on gently, stride by stride his eyes fixed on that fair face his lips muttering-till the closing door shut both forms from the eyes of the three there left. It was the adjoining room into which Philip led his rival.
Some were indifferent, but the majority of them although a little awed by the tragical scene were actually glad at beholding it! It may be wrong of me to say they were glad what I mean is, that they felt a secret satisfaction at what was going on springing not from pure wanton cruelty of heart, but rather from an instinct of self-preservation.
He bent and kissed her hands, where the tears had fallen on them, then, turning, called his sheep. Three minutes later there was no trace of him or of them: they had vanished as if by magic, leaving silence and shadow. The girl climbed the hill toward home on San Pietro's back, shaken, awed, afraid.
Therefore the foolish world was awed, conscience-stricken, pricked to the heart, when it looked on those whom it had pierced, as it had pierced Christ the Lord, and cried, as the centurion cried on Calvary, 'Surely these were the sons and daughters of God.
As many as eight years before the time when this subject assumed the ballad form within his mind it had floated before his vision, as is evident in the lines which are taken from his poem The Artists "Awed by the Furies' chorus dread Murder draws down upon its head The doom of death from their wild song."
The wonderful smile, so ready to come and go, flickered and went out. In its stead on the strange face was ineffable sadness, the sadness of the world's tragedies, of Stephen stoned, of Christ crucified. "Pray God that you may feel sorry for me again," he said. Awed, the child on his lap was still. The politician had left the room. Mr. Lincoln had kept Stephen's hand in his own.
Yet when breakfast was ever, he was among the loudest of those who, shaking off the strange, awed gravity of deep gladness, went rushing together into the garden, feeling that they might give way to their spirits again.
The big words rolled out magnificently over the awed gathering, and the minister flattened his chin and rolled his eyes up at the people in his most impressive way.
"Yes, you are," agreed Diana, to the awed amazement of the other two pupils, at the same time bestowing a radiant smile upon him. Baroni beamed back at her benevolently. "So! Thus we agree we are at one, as master and pupil should be. Is it not so?" Diana nodded, amusement in her eyes. "Then, being agreed, we can continue our lesson.
"Gentlemen," I said with a wave of my hand toward Terry, "let me introduce Mr. Terence Kirkwood Patten, the well-known detective of New York, who has come down to look into this matter for us." The chairs which were tipped back against the wall came down with a thud, and an awed and somewhat uneasy shuffling of feet ensued.
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