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Dion ventured to say, as he took her hand. "Thank you," she answered. "I think you must go in for athletic exercises, don't you?" Her eyes were fixed on the breadth of his chest, and then traveled to his strong, broad shoulders. "Yes, I'm very keen on them." "I want my boy to go in for them. It's so important to be healthy." "Rather!" He felt the Stamboul touch in her soft, hot hand.
I was terrified at the dead people behind me, and every one knew I was very nervous. My chest too was delicate, and there I was, exposed to the biting cold with no protection whatever. I began to think about Mother St. Sophie, who evidently no longer cared for me, as she was deserting me so cruelly.
No sound met his straining ear save the sighing of the breeze and the ripple of the water as it lapped against his chest. It was too dark to see more than a few yards in any direction. Glynn knew that each moment lost rendered his chance of saving the child terribly slight.
Carrie has several times recently called attention to the thinness of my hair at the top of my head, and recommended me to get it seen to. I was this morning trying to look at it by the aid of a small hand-glass, when somehow my elbow caught against the edge of the chest of drawers and knocked the glass out of my hand and smashed it.
He paused a moment after making this remark, and then suddenly uttered a great, bass laugh, so that his chest shook. "Let us share the joke," said Maskull. "Oh, you'll understand it later." "If you play pranks with me, I won't stand on ceremony with you." Haunte laughed again. "I won't be the one to play pranks. Sullenbode will be deeply obliged to me.
These he kept to himself, though he averred that he had laid down on the charts that were in his chest the two important points which had been the subjects of his communications. Although this man had been wily in making his revelations, and had chosen his confidant with caution and sagacity, most of that which he related was true.
There were the gold-laced coat and the breeches with the sword-slash in them, the sash, the belt, the plumed hat, the high boots, the pistols, and glittering among them all, the sword. That chest of Father Anthony's and its contents were something of a fairy tale to the boys of the Island, and each of them dreamt of a day when he too might behold them.
DeLisle was loveless on her part and proved very unhappy. But he had been dead many years, and Aunt Winnifred never spoke of him. "I have made up my mind what to do," said Grandmother decidedly. "I will write to Eliza and ask her if I may open the chest to see if the moths have got into it. If she refuses, well and good. I have no doubt that she will refuse.
Do you not know that Ajax struck me on the chest with a stone as I was killing his comrades at the ships of the Achaeans, and compelled me to leave off fighting? I made sure that this very day I should breathe my last and go down into the house of Hades."
The Emperor Sigismund was a noble-minded and easy-living prince, who once, when forty thousand ducats had been poured into his ever-empty treasure chest, divided it forthwith among his friends, saying: "Now shall I sleep well, for that which broke my rest you bear away with you."
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