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She knelt by his side, and they prayed, and their joint sobs shook their bodies, but neither of them shed many tears. They held a dark unspoken secret in common. They prayed God to forgive her. Clare was buried in the family vault of the Todhunters. Her mother breathed no wish to have her lying at Lobourne. After the funeral, what they alone upon earth knew brought them together.
"Guilty of the crime as charged," he said, and closed his lips tightly, and turned his head away. The great crowd breathed again; and an ominous, deep-toned, shuddering murmur arose from its depths, as all eyes turned toward the alcalde. It now became his duty to sentence the prisoners; and, in accordance with the verdict just rendered, he could pronounce but one sentence hanging.
He did not know how long he lay there, but after a while he crept along over the slimy rocks and because it was not easy to stand alone he limped to that grim, threatening structure, and leaned against it, trying to collect his faculties. "If he was only here now," he breathed, half aloud, "I'd let him I'd be willing not to be boss like he said.
He himself had one who was very dear and near to his own dearest and nearest, in that Expeditionary Force, and yet not a word had been breathed, even to him. Then he went on to a sadder and yet in its way an even more glorious theme the loss of His Majesty's good ship Amphion.
Yea, and but as a fool Pygmalion, not content with loving thine own handiwork, thou must needs fall in love with the goddess that breathed life into its stiff limbs; must yearn, not for Galatea, but for Aphrodite; not for Francesca, but for Ah!" What was that? I saw a figure start up as if from below our feet, and Tom's hand go up to his breast.
Half an hour later we were back at the Terminus Hotel. For the first time in all that stirring and eventful week I breathed freely. At any rate the present peril was overpast, we had eluded pursuit, and had a clear time of perfect security to consider our situation and look ahead. As soon as Henriette was visible, I went up to her room to talk matters over.
Seth stopped short, put a hand to the breast of his blue flannel shirt, and breathed a mighty sigh of relief. "Gosh!" he exclaimed with fervor. Then, changing his labored gallop for a walk, he continued his progress toward the man, who, as if his momentary curiosity was satisfied, lay down again.
Then the road felt its way between two hills; and the blackness of night opened below us as well as above, and from some deep and tremendous abyss breathed the winds of space. It was as dark as a cave, for the moon was yet two hours below the horizon. Somehow the trail turned to the right along that tremendous cliff.
"Another fifty yards, Petrie," breathed Nayland Smith, "and after that it's unchartered ground." On we went through the rain and the darkness; then: "Slow up! slow up!" cried Smith. "It feels soft!" Indeed, already I had made one false step and the hungry mire had fastened upon my foot, almost tripping me. "Lost the path!" We stopped dead. The falling rain walled us in.
Sally and Jane had just left Lenox and were discussing these details. "And I'm so glad now," breathed Sally in her entreaty to Jane, "that you listened to me and did not report that matter to Miss Rutledge." "So am I," said Jane in bewilderment. "I am glad of anything I may have done to make her path smoother here.
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