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She now began to think that the man Luigi was in some perceptible danger, nor did Ammiani disperse the idea. "If he is a spy, and if he has seen the Chief, we shall have to detain him for at least four-and-twenty hours," he said, "or do worse." "But, Signor Carlo," Vittoria made appeal to his humanity, "do they mean, if they decide that he is guilty, to hurt him?"
"'I have nothing to detain me here I have seen Seville thoroughly, and shall be glad to make this journey, James said, without paying attention to what had passed. "I felt my cheeks tingling with impatience and indignation. What did this eagerness and solicitude mean?
Now, this sight of the Bible gave me a sense of personal security, and a notion of hypocrisy in his conduct as well; and perceiving that we had conjectured falsely as to his meaning to cast us on shore per ship, his barque Priscilla, I burst out in great heat, 'What! we are prisoners? You dare to detain us? Temple chimed in, in a similar strain.
After these words, he endeavoured to get away from the blind man. The blind man, who expected this reluctance of his benefactor, exerted himself to detain him.
Harriet closed the door behind them, and proceeded to point out the new picture, and discuss the various positions which had occurred to her. Julian would have decided the question as speedily as possible, and once or twice moved to return downstairs, but each time the girl found something new to detain him.
But at her first movement he would unclose his eyes and groan her name, groping with his finger to detain her. So she sat in his big square bedroom with the drab walls and the plain furniture, watching the daylight fade and pondering to herself. It was a gloom period, and it had a perceptible effect upon her vitality.
Then, watch in hand once more, he spoke of the absence of the model: "Something seems to detain the model this morning. But she has sent me no word and she will no doubt be here in a few minutes." He went back to the other end of the studio and sat down, facing them with the impressiveness which belonged to him even without speech. They fixed their eyes on him with the usual expectancy.
In South Carolina slaves are punished capitally for nine more crimes than the whites in Georgia, for six and in Kentucky, for seven more than whites, &c. We surely need not detain the reader by comments on this monstrous inequality with which the penal codes of slave states treat slaves and their masters.
"Will you ask him to see me for a moment?" The footman hesitated. "I think Mr. Arment has gone up to dress for dinner, madam." Julia advanced into the hall. "I am sure he will see me I will not detain him long," she said. She spoke quietly, authoritatively, in the tone which a good servant does not mistake. The footman had his hand on the drawing-room door. "I will tell him, madam.
Like most women when under the stress of some unusual agitation, she overstepped her ordinary limitations and assumed something of the Pythoness, though still remaining calm and beautiful; for it was the form of her thoughts that was wrung with desperation, not the features of her face. And perhaps she wanted to shine with all her wit to lend some charm to life and detain her lover from death.
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