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What do you mean?" we asked almost together. "I mean that he has kept his word given to me at a conference which Mr. Jameson saw but did not hear. I told him I would publish the whole thing, not caring whom or where or when it hit if he did not let up on Travis.
Gibson's dressing-room. 'Oh, Cynthia, it was such pain to see him, he suffered so! 'I don't like people of deep feelings, said Cynthia, pouting. 'They don't suit me. Why could not he let me go without this fuss. I'm not worth his caring for! 'You have the happy gift of making people love you. Remember Mr Preston, he too would not give up hope.
He looked deep into her eyes for seconds, and then she felt him drawing her irresistibly to him. She yielded herself as driftwood yields to a racing flood, no longer caring for the interpretation of the riddle, scarcely remembering its existence; heard him laugh above her head a brief, exultant laugh as he clasped her. And then came his lips upon her own....
"I was not within at the time; but I heard of it from Eleanor, and she has been wishing ever since to see you, to explain the reason of such incivility; but perhaps I can do it as well. It was nothing more than that my father they were just preparing to walk out, and he being hurried for time, and not caring to have it put off made a point of her being denied. That was all, I do assure you.
Any failure in Art cannot rouse us to this pitch; our sensitive, appreciative spirits would assuredly flag unless some keynote of resonant power were sounded. The figure of Pontius Pilate is realistically depicted; it has not the aristocratic air of a Roman Governor, yet the face, not caring to meet the gaze of the people, is a work exhibiting some power.
How happy he had been in those days! caring nothing for the future bent on winning this girl at any price laughing within himself at her delusion trusting to his own merits as an ample set-off against his empty purse when he should stand revealed as the wrong Brian. Things had gone fairly enough with him since then.
Without a day's warning the burden had been laid upon her shoulders, but with the fine courage that youth and love combine to give, denying herself even the poor luxury of indulgence of the grief that had fallen upon her young heart, she had given herself, without thought of anything heroic in her giving, to the caring for the house and the household, and the comforting as best she could of her father, suddenly bereft of her who had been to him not wife alone, but comrade and counsellor as well.
What was the charm in the little half-foreign cousin that had seized on him in an instant, and that seemed to fasten its subtle hold more and more irresistibly with every minute of his life? He was content to feel the charm without caring to fathom it. The lovely morning light took him in imagination to her bedside; he saw here sleeping peacefully in her new room.
George Dallow had made it, caring for these things and liking to talk about them scarce ever about anything else; so that it appeared to represent him still, what was best in his kindly, limited nature, his friendly, competent, tiresome insistence on harmony on identity of "period."
All night she watched and waited, caring for her little ones, fearful to leave them alone, till at last the gray light came down, down from the sky to the branches, and from the branches to the ground, and she could see her way. Then, with her new-born babe in her arms and the elder little fellow trotting by her side, she went out to search for her husband.
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