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His legs trembled as he obeyed the girl's beckoning finger. He reached the table and stumbled noisily into a seat. The girl, now holding out a menu card, was looking at him curiously, he felt. The blood rushed to his face; he dared not look at her. Fumblingly he took the card and straightway dropped it on the floor. Together they bent over to regain it. Their bodies touched. Hiram grew sick.
I held the last two roses in my hand for a moment or two, hesitating, but I let them fall at last; and then the tears I had kept back so long came with a rush, and I sank down on my knees sobbing as if my heart would break. It was one of my uncles who laid his hand upon my shoulder and made me start as he bent over me, and said in a low, chilling voice: "Get up, my boy; we are going back.
However, I shall, of course, speak in the strictest confidence." The judge bent his head, but it was in nodding not in assent, for he had not heard a word that his nephew said. And William saw nothing but the nod with a sidewise glance of aversion at the signs of his uncle's weakness.
I wondered why he looked as he did when he took my hand and drew me down to my place on the plaid again. He did not let it go when he sat down by my side. He held it in his own large, handsome one, looking down on it a moment or so; and then he bent his head and kissed it long and slowly two or three times. "Dear little Ysobel!" he said. "Beloved, strange little Ysobel." "Am I strange!"
Rex was purple with the strain of his late efforts his breath came pantingly, his hair lay in damp rings on his forehead. Norah's face was ghastly white; she was trembling from head to foot. "Thank God!" said Rex solemnly. They were his first words, and Norah bent her head with a little sob of agitation. "Oh, thank God! We might have been buried alive in that awful place."
Well, her ladyship is bent on making some marmalade and rhubarb jam. I don't know how she did it, but she got some sugar from a man at Ballymurry. Wangled it. Isn't that the word?" "Seems exactly the word," said the General. "And I'm bringing it home to her. That's all." "I see," said the General. "But why not have let the officer see what was in the case?
About 6 P.M. we arrived at the snow upon, the ridge descending toward Zermatt, and all peril was over. We frequently looked, but in vain, for traces of our unfortunate companions; we bent over the ridge and cried to them, but no sound returned.
Father! turn him out of the house. Don't let me ever see that dreadful man again!" She fell back on her pillow, white and still, and shut her eyes. "My darling, you will kill yourself!" her mother exclaimed. Dr. Galbraith stepped to the side of the bed hurriedly, and bent over her.
Bertram's companion here suddenly drew his cloak from his shoulders rolled it up under his arm caught his coat-skirts under both arms and stood with head and body bent forwards, whilst his eyes seemed to search and traverse the dark piles of building from which they had issued; his attitude was that of a stag, that, with pointed ears and with fore-feet rising for a bound, is looking to the thicket from which the noise issues that has startled him.
But they certainly would have been delightfully surprised to see a quiet and orderly room with bent heads and knit brows, all intent upon papers and pencils. Never before in the annals of that school had the first day held a full period of quiet or orderliness.
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