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Obeying the beckoning finger of his host, Constans advanced to the edge of the platform overhanging the enclosure. An excited murmur rose from the crowd below, and even the dignitaries upon the gallery jostled one another to obtain a favorable vantage-point. Alexa stood immediately behind Constans, her eyes bright with excitement, and her slim hand hidden in her father's huge fist.
With that magnificent sheet of water at the door of the town, in the shape of Lake Constance; also the crooked Paradise River beckoning the boys to explore its upper reaches, and the mysteries to be found there, surely winter should open up a new round of exciting outdoor activities for Jack and his friends.
He went away, for he was employed just then in blowing the organ, and the organist was beckoning to him, so the woman turned to the children. "My name is Mrs. Moseley, darlings, and ef you're content with a werry small closet for you and yer dog, why, yer welcome, and I'll promise as it shall be clean.
"He has suggested an emendation in my 'Homer, which proves him a delicate scholar," Mr. Pope exclaimed. "He knows more of the French king than any man I have met with; and we must have an eye upon him," said Lord Bolingbroke, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and beckoning a suspicious-looking person who was drinking at a side-table, whispered to him something.
Longmore again importuning her to know what he had done to occasion his absconding so, said I suppose he has not murdered anybody? To this she replied, he had, and beckoning him to come upstairs, related to him the story as before mentioned. Mr. Longmore being inquisitive which way he was gone, she told him into Herefordshire, that Mr.
She stood there dressed and ready for the drive, beckoning them with her parasol. They came across the lawn holding each other by the hand, and Milly's face was calm, even happy. Aunt Beatrice smiled at them broadly with her large, handsome mouth and bright brown eyes. "What, not had enough of spooning yet, you foolish young people!
Coming down after awhile, I walked to the now open gate, and looped through it over the barren fields to the dense woods a mile away, and a wild desire to run off took possession of me. It seemed as if I could not resist it. The woods appeared full of enticing shapes, beckoning me to come to them, and the winds whispered in my ears: "Run! Run! Run!"
Rapidly-flittingly, with a step noiseless as a spectre's, Arabella Crane descended the stairs; but she did not, as when he first sought that house in the years before, grasp his hand or gaze into his face. Rather, it was with a shrinking avoidance of his touch with something like a shudder-that she glided by him into the open drawing-room, beckoning him to follow.
The occupants, whom I hailed, did not deign a reply, but beckoning with their arms, enjoined me to follow them. "It's time to break camp," I said, "if we intend to reach the next town before it gets too hot." So off we started, preceded by a heavy delivery wagon, a Familistere from the north, which crossed the rails just as we were pulling onto the road.
Moreover, he craved with all the strength of his heart for another interview with Martha, and he knew of no way to obtain it without Betsy's help. Her hand was on the gate-latch when his call reached her ears. Looking up the road, she saw that he had stopped his horse between the high, bushy banks, and was beckoning earnestly.
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