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Mary's dress and demeanor betrayed at once that she could not belong to any official employed here; and, as soon as he had learnt who she was, he whispered to his companion, an aged deacon who always accompanied him when he visited a female prisoner: "We find her here!"
Sulpicius was killed, being betrayed by his servant, whom Sylla first made free, and then threw him headlong down the Tarpeian rock. As for Marius, he set a price on his life, by proclamation, neither gratefully nor politicly, if we consider into whose house, not long before he put himself at mercy, and was safely dismissed.
"You have the loveliest hand," she went on, looking at his fingers, that certainly were shapely enough, as no one knew better than Simon Mac-Taggart. "I don't say you are in any way handsome," her eyes betrayed her real thought, "but I'll admit to the hands, they're dear pets, Sim." He thrust them in his pockets. "Heavens!
Thus was it with the Countess; so far as the pen can render the shadows of a feminine soul. Such were the impressions which, day by day, penetrated the very soul of our poor "Miss Mary." It was nothing more than this; but this was everything to her! The idea of being betrayed by her husband and that, too, with cruel premeditation never had arisen to torture her soul.
Alfonso's life that he had one of the most scrupulous and anxious of consciences; and, further, he was originally in the law, and was betrayed on one occasion by accident into what seemed like a deceit, and this was the very occasion of his leaving the profession. If Protestants wish to know what our real teaching is, let them look at the Catechism of the Council of Trent.
He laughed, and said that I must bear with him; that he was at certain moments subject to a species of vertigo, which betrayed itself in incoherent speeches, and that the attacks passed off as rapidly as they came. He put his weapon aside while making this explanation, and endeavoured, with some success, to assume a more cheerful air. All this did not impose on me in the least.
This was one of the spies a Westerner, as his speech betrayed. But Tom was suddenly less fearful than he had been when first attacked. It did not seem possible to him that Mr. Bartholomew's enemies would allow their henchman to go too far to obtain information of the railroad president's intentions. This fellow was merely attempting to frighten him.
So unconscious was his poise that one often doubted the evidence of memory, and found one's self going back over the record, only to fetch up point-blank against the incontestable fact that he had stolen his ship and had betrayed his profession. "'It is a triumph, a feat of character! Lee Fu used to say, as we compared notes on the case from time to time.
"My mother, art thou too against me?" The girl struggled to a sitting position, her indignation giving her strength. "Dost thou believe that I betrayed my father, or that I lingered at court from choice? Then what avails it if I tell thee all? Am I not thy child, and wherefore should I do so evil? Would that I had died ere this had come upon me!"
Even in the darkness Bill recognized him. His heavy, asthmatical breathing must have betrayed the money-lender if there had been no other means of identification. Lablache stepped out on to the prairie utterly unconscious of the figures crouching in the darkness. He stepped heavily forward. Four steps that was all. A silent spring an iron grip round the money-lender's throat, from behind.
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