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Then, with a sigh of relief, he turned his face toward the canvas wall of the tent, saying quietly: "Now I will go to sleep." But Hosea laid his hand on his shoulder, exclaiming imperiously: "Say it again." The youth obeyed, but this time he repeated the words in a low, careless tone, then saying beseechingly: "Let me rest now," put his hand under his cheek and closed his eyes.
"Then tell me why you sent for Father Matthieu." The light was dim, as I have said, yet I could see the faint flush spread from neck to cheek. "You are not of the Church, Monsieur John. You would not understand if I should tell you." "I think I understand without your telling. You said Sir Francis Falconnet had asked for you." "'Twas you who drove me to say it." "Because I tried to warn you?"
Clouston was certainly right in thinking that eagerness, breathlessness, and anxiety are not signs of strength: they are signs of weakness and of bad co-ordination. The even forehead, the slab-like cheek, the codfish eye, may be less interesting for the moment; but they are more promising signs than intense expression is of what we may expect of their possessor in the long run.
His left shoulder was higher than his right shoulder, and his eyes were sunken in his head and a scar ran down along his temple to his left cheek bone. When he looked in the glass which Bill brought him, Casey actually felt ill. They told him that he must not wash his face, and that his week's growth of beard was a blessing from heaven.
'Heads! cried Abel, a pallor sweeping over his face as he spoke. As he leaned forward to look Sarah leaned forward too, and their heads almost touched. He could feel her hair blowing on his cheek, and it thrilled through him like fire. Eric lifted his upper hand; the coin lay with its head up. Abel stepped forward and took Sarah in his arms. With a curse Eric hurled the coin far into the sea.
Before she had had it in her arms five minutes, her pale cheek was as red as a rose, and her eyes brighter than diamonds. "Bless you, Rose! bless you! bless you! in one moment you have made me forget all I ever suffered in my life." "There is a cold draught," cried she presently, with maternal anxiety; "close the panel, Rose."
It was sheltered by fine old trees, and the new grass and the fresh earth smelt sweet, as she laid her wet cheek against the cool pillow, that she could not make up her mind to leave it. She said to herself that she would rest one little minute, but when the little minute was gone, she had forgotten the night was following so fast upon her footsteps.
The sublime forgiveness of Christianity, turning of the other cheek when the one has been smitten, is not here: you are to revenge yourself, but it is to be in measure, not overmuch, or beyond justice.
Just before him a lady had come around a corner, and was walking quietly along, in whom at a glance he recognized Miss Morison. There came into his cheek, which even his double penances had not made thin, a flush of pleasure. He quickened his steps, and in a moment had overtaken her. "Good morning," he said, raising his ecclesiastical hat with an air which savored somewhat of worldliness.
But the third day he was able to leave his bed, and with his arm in a sling, sat comfortably in an easy-chair, and conversed freely with his two excellent nurses. "Did Beverly tell you of Arthur's imprisonment?" he asked of Oriana, breaking a pause in the general conversation. "Yes," she answered, looking down, with a scarcely perceptible blush upon her cheek. "Poor Arthur!
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