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But so had Tom Hagard, the faro-dealer, and Frank Sauter, who played poker over Sudden's, and Dick Bander, who got his money from Madame Blank because he happened to be a swashing slugger, and many another Tom, Dick, and Harry whose reputations were, to say the least, questionable.
The sweet, childish face haunted him as constantly as the veiled phantom haunted his father, but in a different way. Through his own unhappiness, he came into kinship with all the misery of the world. He longed to uplift, to help, to heal. He decided to try once more to talk with Miss Evelina, to ask her, point blank, if need be, to let him see her face.
Nevertheless, access to the village was possible by the strip of rocks beneath it. Had Hermione gone to the village by the rocks? If she had, Gaspare's keen eyes would surely have seen her. Artois looked at the blank wall of the palace. This extended a little way, then turned at right angles. Just beyond the angle, in its shadow, there was a low and narrow doorway.
After a long interval his next work was "Amyntor and Theodora" , a long story in blank verse; in which it cannot be denied that there is copiousness and elegance of language, vigour of sentiment, and imagery well adapted to take possession of the fancy. But it is blank verse. This he sold to Vaillant for one hundred and twenty pounds.
In the meantime, there was heard slow footsteps and the rustle of skirts, and then some people entered the smoking room on their way to dine. Coke took his foot hastily out of the fountain. The faces of the men of the arriving party went blank, and they turned their cold and pebbly eyes straight to the front, while the ladies, after little ex. pressions of alarm, looked As if they wanted to run.
She sat gazing at him with a face of blank misery, to which he could not refuse the charity of a prompting question: "Is there something I can do for you, Mrs. Hubbard?" "Oh, I don't know, I don't know!" She had a folded paper in her hands, which lay helpless in her lap.
The sacred name struck him, after his impassioned dreaming, like a sharp blow between the eyes, and he met the girl's animated gesture with a look of blank aversion. "I've met her yes," he answered coldly. But her enthusiasm was at white heat, and he saw what he had thought mere prettiness in her warm to positive beauty. "And you adore her work as I do?" she exclaimed.
I shall send it by the next post, but I am afraid that I put into my envelope a sheet which was intended for Lord Carlisle. Pray ask him if he had two sheets, or what he had. I am in hopes that, par distraction, it was only a sheet of blank paper. Yet that I did not intend neither; she shall have no carte blanche from me. I am miserable about this.
For the moment his mind seemed a perfect blank, and the silence of the room was terrible. It was Latimer who spoke first, stiffly, and as if with difficulty. "I should be more resigned," he said, "I should be resigned. But it has been a heavy blow." Baird moistened his dry lips but found no words. "She had a bright nature," the lagging voice went on, "a bright nature and gifts which I had not.
"Of course, if a fellow kissed her " "Oh, heavens!" cried Susan, scarlet in turn, "he never did anything like THAT!" "Didn't, hey?" William looked blank. "Oh, never!" Susan said, meeting his look bravely. "He's he's too much of a gentleman, Bill!" "Perhaps that's being a gentleman, and perhaps it's not," said Billy, scowling. "He but he he makes love to you, doesn't he?"
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