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He looked at her keenly, and she thrilled. "I don't think we'd better talk so here," she replied. "You'd better be " He laid his hand on the back of her chair, almost touching her shoulder. "Rita," he said, using her given name again, "you wonderful woman!" "Oh!" she breathed. Cowperwood did not see Mrs.
Gosh! if we ain't meetin' up with a trail of happenings these days and nights! I say, Max?" "What is it, Bandy-legs?" "Hope now you ain't never give that jolly little automatic back to the lady?" continued Bandy-legs, eagerly. "I've still got it handy, make your mind easy on that score," was what the other told him, and Bandy-legs evidently breathed considerably easier on that account.
Hail! hail! hail! Were I a metaphysician, I would tell you why Vivian Grey had been gazing two hours on the moon; for I could then present you with a most logical programme of the march of his ideas, since he whispered his last honied speech in the ear of Mrs. Felix Lorraine, at dinner-time, until this very moment, when he did not even remember that such a being as Mrs. Felix Lorraine breathed.
She was something more precious than gold. She was like a doll of the most beautiful order. Now, Irene had always despised dolls; but this living doll, with the pink cheeks, and the black eyelashes, and the soft hair, and the sweet little face, was altogether a different matter. The little one stirred in her sleep and breathed a name softly. Irene bent to listen the name was her own.
Show me the man who would not have fallen in love in such company, beneath that exquisite sky, environed and intoxicated by the indefinable enchantments in which the landscape and the very air you breathed were steeped!
He said that, some day, he wanted to be a good husband and father. When I asked him where he got his large ambitions he told me that a lady had given them to him." Rose-Marie was leaning forward. "Did he tell you the lady's name?" she breathed. The Young Doctor shook his head. "Not a thing did he tell me!" he said dramatically.
The fact is, brother, this girl must be married. I went last night to talk with Antonio's mother, and the way is all open as well as any living girl could desire. Antonio is a trifle slow, and the high-flying hussies call him stupid; but his mother says a better son never breathed, and he is as obedient to all her orders now as when he was three years old.
"But I didn't think it meant HER. My God, if they have harmed her " His breath seemed choking him. "They dare not!" breathed Philip. John Adare looked into the white fear of the other's face. There was no hiding of it: the same terrible dread that was in his own. "If they should, we will kill them by inches, Philip!" he whispered. "We will cut them into bits that the moose-birds can carry away.
On this he ran hastily to her, lifted her up and bore her into a chamber -then he laid her down, and knelt and sucked the three drops of blood from her right breast, and spat them out. Immediately she breathed again and recovered herself, but the young King had seen this, and being ignorant why Faithful John had done it, was angry and cried, "Throw him into a dungeon."
All day had the pale and silent minister of God kept his corpse-like calm, while all about the white snow gleamed, and radiant shadows filled every hollow, and the cattle bawled and frisked in the barn-yard, and the fowls cackled joyously, what time the mild, soft wind breathed warmly over the land. Mattie cried out to her mother, in quick, low voice, "Oh mother, how is he?" "He ain't no worse.
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