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The idea was, after all, the main thing, and we owe most of that to my cousin Owen reading so much about how these pearls are found in Indiana and Missouri streams." "Oh! take care, Max!" suddenly cried Bandy-legs. "What is it?" demanded the other, instantly. "Danger ahead; because I saw somebody poking a head out of the bushes there," Bandy-legs went on, breathlessly.

Yes, entirely my own composition. I only hope that William Brown won't murder my poetry as he does at rehearsals." The curtain went up. The scene was a wood, as was evident from a few small branches of trees placed here and there at intervals on the stage. Joan, in a white dress and red cloak, entered and began to speak, quickly and breathlessly, stressing every word with impartial regularity.

It was a never-before-seen form, but surrounded by a wonderfully bright halo, enveloped in rich, glittering garments, such as she had never before seen. It was a strange, unknown face, but of a sublime, heroic beauty, proud and noble, bold and mild. "That is he!" she breathlessly and sadly murmured "yes, that is he! That is a man and a hero! Ah, I shall die under his glance!"

She paused breathlessly once or twice, and fancied that she could hear, above the beat of her strumming pulse, the vehicle containing Fitzpiers turning in at the gate of her father's premises. She hastened on again. The Hintock woods owned by Mrs.

Her skirt had caught in the branches of an enterprising bayberry bush which had managed to find roothold there, and to this bush and a clump of beach grass she was clinging, her hands outstretched and her body extended along the edge of the clay precipice. Albert gasped. "Helen!" he called breathlessly. She turned her head and looked up at him. Her face was white, but she did not scream.

Hortense passed them in her carriage, breathlessly listening to the slightest noise that broke upon the air. Her son Louis had descended from the carriage, and seated himself on a stone bench that stood in front of the miserable little station-house.

She held it with a desperate grip she fought with me breathlessly, clinging to me with all her force she reminded me of that ravenous unclean bird with which I had had so fierce a combat on the night of my living burial. For some brief moments she was possessed of supernatural strength she sprung and tore at my clothes, keeping the poniard fast in her clutch.

For a long time the three stood, breathlessly watching as Lawler lay, staring in bewilderment at the ceiling, at the walls, and out of the windows, through which came a soft, subdued light. Presently Lawler raised his head a trifle, saw them all, and smiled. The clear light of reason was in his eyes. "Mother, Ruth, and Shorty," he said, weakly smiling.

Diana breathlessly asked for the rest of the story. "He defended her magnificently. It was a shocking case. The sentence was commuted, but she died almost immediately. They say Sir James has never got over it." Diana pondered; her eyes dim. "How one would like to do something for him! to give him pleasure!" Marsham caressed her hand. "So you shall, darling. He shall be one of our best friends.

Before he could make clear the meaning of this remark, Vose Adams emerged from the cedars, and the three breathlessly awaited his coming. He broke into a trot and quickly descended the slope to where they stood. The expression of his face showed before he spoke that he brought unwelcome news. "Confound it!" he exclaimed with a shake of his head, "they're not there!"