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She fondled the palfrey's nose, laying her cheek against his neck. For the moment it became imperative that she should hide her happy eyes even from this faithful fellow, in whom she had learned to place entire confidence. "Icon, brave and beautiful!" she whispered. "Thou hast carried me here where I longed to be. Thy feet were well-nigh as swift as my desire."
You look better, my boy." "I am better, captain much, much better," returned the youth, with a flushed cheek and sparkling eye, "for I, too, have got news this morning of a fortune which exceeds yours in value, and the security is better." The captain was puzzled. "A fortune, Jeff?" "Yes; but my news will keep. You are too much excited to hear about it just now.
I speak plainly, at my age, and I tell you simply that I've lost my heart to you." Stereotyped as the phrase was, Madame Karenina obviously believed it and was delighted by it. She flushed, bent down slightly, and put her cheek to the countess's lips, drew herself up again, and with the same smile fluttering between her lips and her eyes, she gave her hand to Vronsky.
Then Madame turned her bright eyes, over-running with laughter, to her friend, and there was a blush, faint and rosy as a girl's, on her cheek. 'Because, my dear, I have accepted another situation a permanent one. I am going to marry again. 'Oh, Henrietta, impossible! 'Quite true, my dear. 'Another foreign gentleman, of course? 'Why of course? No, I am going to rise in the world.
'Say it again! he murmured, as their eyes met; 'say it again. It is so sweet from you! There was a long pause; she stood as if fascinated, her hands falling slowly beside her. Her gaze wavered till the eyelids fell, and she stood absolutely motionless, the tears still on her cheek.
"Very serious things?" he asked, smiling. "Very." "All right; I am listening." "Very serious things," she repeated, gazing through the window, where green tree-tops swayed in the breezy sunlight; and she pressed her cheek closer to his arm. "I have not been very good," she said. He looked at her, suppressed the smile that twitched at his mouth, and waited.
This much in truth a man might read in his gloomy black eyes; and many a stranger, for all he were noble and a Knight, who had fallen out with a Venetian Signor of his degree had vanished forever, none knew whither. As we read these words the blood faded from Ann's cheek; but I set my teeth, for I may confess that Herdegen's ways and words roused my wrath.
The colour rose to Verena's cheek, and her eye for an instant looked moist. "I don't know what you always think, Olive, nor why you don't seem able to trust me. You didn't, from the first, with gentlemen. Perhaps you were right then I don't say; but surely it is very different now. I don't think I ought to be suspected so much.
Fotheringham, you have not brought me the amber mouth-piece I desired John to tell you of. 'Not I. I don't bring Turks' fashion into Christian countries. You ought to learn better manners now you are head of a family. Theodora entered, holding her head somewhat high, but there was a decided heightening of the glow on her cheek as Mr. Fotheringham shook hands with her.
"Did you know her?" cried the son, with a glow of pleasure on his cheek. The reply of the stranger was interrupted by sudden and heavy explosions of artillery, which were immediately followed by continued volleys of small arms, and in a few minutes the air was filled with the tumult of a warm and well-contested battle.
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