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And now everybody on board watched her with anxious eyes, as she pulled towards the wreck. The young lad saw her coming, and was observed to be bending down as if to announce the event to some one below.
The next instant they were rolling in the moonlight on the floor, and Challoner caught a glimpse of Grouse Piet's huge bulk bending over them. Durant's head was twisted under his arm, but one of the giant's hands had reached his throat. The halfbreed saw this, and he cried out something in a guttural voice.
The water ran deep and very still, just here, overhung by ash and alder and willow, whose slender, curving branches formed a leafy bower wherein she half knelt, half sat, bending over to regard herself in the placid water. For a long moment she remained thus, studying her reflection intently in this crystal mirror, and little by little her song died away.
I am so glad to get back to you!" and threw her arms about Violet's neck. Violet's arm was instantly around the child's waist; she kissed her tenderly two or three times, then said, looking down at the sleeping babe, "This is your little sister, Gracie." "Oh, the darling, wee, pretty pet!" exclaimed Gracie, bending over it.
Looking from her bed at the clear fire that was burning, she still saw, as she had down there, Léon standing up with one hand bending his cane, and with the other holding Athalie, who was quietly sucking a piece of ice.
"And I," said Austin, "am nothing but the fairy godmother's humble and devoted factotum." He took the hand which she extended and, bending over it, kissed it gallantly. Then by unhappy chance out came Dick from the armoury, and beheld the spectacle which robbed him of his peace of mind.
He ought to have been a happy man, perhaps, with that burden in his arms. It was not as such he described himself to his wife afterwards. Halfway up the stairs he tripped, and she screamed. "Grip me! Grip me! Don't let me drop over the balusters!" she called. He laboured on, the cords bursting in his forehead, his legs bending, his throat swelling, his arms two seats of agony.
"Uncle Tucker's cup has no handle, Cynthia," she said with concern. "Let me take this one and give him another." "Well, I never!" exclaimed Cynthia, bending over to examine the break with her near-sighted squint. "We'll soon have to begin using Aunt Susannah's set, if this keeps up. Uncle Boaz, you've broken another cup to-day."
He turned his eyes and saw her emotion, which greatly increased the ideal element in her expressive face. She was in the state in which woman's instinct to conceal has lost its power over her impulse to tell; and he saw it. Bending his handsome face over her till his lips almost touched her ear, he murmured, without breaking the harmonies 'Do you very much like this piece?
Bending cautiously above her, he hesitated a moment, while a great throb of disappointment ran through his veins.
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