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She fell into the water with a scream of laughter; came up like a mermaid and they pulled her aboard, the veils and her hair clinging to her. At last Tarrano signified that we must go. It was upon me then to make an effort to draw back, to keep Elza and Maida at the palace with Georg and me. My heart was heavy with foreboding.
Doubtless he would return to London; their home would be a poor one, like that of ordinary working folk. How would he bear it? How would he take this from her? Fear crept insidiously about her heart, though she fought to banish it. It was a fear of the instinct, clinging to trifles in the memory, feeding upon tones, glances, the impressions of forgotten moments.
Oh! how white and stricken an aspect through what a dark eclipse of pain the eyes looked out! 'Ought we not to be going? Lucy whispered in her ear. 'I am sure you are tired. Eleanor rose. She took the girl's hand in a clinging grasp, while she turned smiling to her neighbour the Dane: 'We must be moving to the Villa Borghese some friends will be meeting us there.
"My child, my child," he said, huskily, "how like you are to your mother! Thank God! Indeed it may be you're right! God grant it!" He drew her closely to him. "Papa, Papa," she whispered, clinging to him, while her voice broke in a sob, "you know Allan will not lie. You know it, don't you, Papa?" "I hope not, dear child, I hope not," he replied, still holding her to him.
For Hugh Ingelow, his disguise torn off, stood in the door-way, smiling and serene as the god of safety himself. Mollie Dane was a creature of impulse she never stopped to think. One faint; suppressed cry, one bound forward, and she was in the young man's arms. "Hugh! Hugh! Hugh!" she cried, hysterically, clinging to him, "save me! save me!"
It was the fatal trust of the vast money handling which caused his murder. And only after long plotting and careful daily watch was he foully done to death." Alice Worthington's clear voice startled each listener as she said, "There is but one faint clue clinging to the past. A transaction which might have drawn upon him the vengeance of some one. I have kept this secret until all else failed.
Whirling like tops, but still clinging together, the sailor and the girl were separated from their boat and plunged down down down into the farthermost recesses of the great ocean. At first their fall was swift as an arrow, but presently they seemed to be going more moderately and Trot was almost sure that unseen arms were about her, supporting her and protecting her.
Already he had explained to Muriel what he intended to do; and Muriel, half dazed with terror and paralyzed by these awful preparations, consented passively. "But how if you never come back, Felix?" she cried at last, clinging to him passionately. Felix looked at her with a fixed look. "I have thought of that," he said.
Jane, listening, could only press those slender, clinging fingers in speechless comfort, and look up silently into the imploring eyes of her child eyes filled with tears and love. A moment of silence ensued. Then, clearing his throat suddenly, Mr. Keene rose and walked to the window. "Lola," he said presently, turning to face the two others, "I don't blame you one bit.
A forest girl as he had known them would have worn moccasins six hundred miles from civilization. As he was about to leap across the narrow neck of the pool he noticed a white object almost buried in the dry sand, and picked it up. It was a handkerchief; and this, too, was a surprise. He had not particularly noticed her dress, except that it was soft and clinging blue.
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