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We must not trust too much to our courage, it has failed us so often already. And as she spoke, she raised her head, and looked up tearfully at her companion, disclosing as she did so a face of striking beauty, although worn and pallid to a painful degree, and appearing even more so than it really was from the total absence of her hair. The tears sprang to Adelaide's eyes.
"It was thim same innocents that brung him here," said Mary Ellen, stung into disclosing our part in the scandal, "and it's himsilf is their own grandfather." Mrs. Handsomebody's gaze was appalling as she turned it on us three. "You? Your grandfather? What fresh insanity is this?"
Then she loosed the boat from its moorings, and tried to urge it with an oar, till she was far out from the land, till the sea was dark even to the west, and the stars were disclosing themselves like a palpitating life over the wide heavens.
But it was impossible to do this on his own responsibility. He still recognized the understanding entered into with Viviette, before the marriage, to be as binding as ever, that the initiative in disclosing their union should come from her. Yet he hardly doubted that she would take that initiative when he told her of his extraordinary reprimand in the churchyard.
"In the first place, den, ladies and gentlemen," he went on to say, "I mean to show you my magic mirror." Mole glanced nervously at Dick, and from him to Jack Harkaway. But both looked as stolid as Dutchmen. Monday drew back the curtain from the easel, disclosing a frame, on which was fitted a plain black board.
They were preparing the way for our advent, and disclosing what belonged to their sphere, that it might receive more light in "the dispensation of the fulness of times" Ephes. 1: 10, to introduce which we are commissioned.
At times he very closely identified himself with some personality of his visions, and acted out the personality, just as Mrs. Piper has habitually done. Bartlett arose and opened it, disclosing as he did so two young men plainly dressed, of marked provincial aspect.... I saw at once that they were clients, and arose to go. Foster restrained me. "Sit down," he said.
From the masthead of the American vessels rose tiny balls of bunting, and then were broken out, disclosing the broad folds of the stars and stripes. Cavite was hardly more than five miles ahead, and beyond, the city of Manila. The Reina Christina, flying the Spanish rear-admiral’s flag, lay off the arsenal. Astern of her was moored the Castilla, her port battery ready for action.
We determined, however, to be very cautious in disclosing our plans to her. We would sound her, first, and make a regular engagement with her. "It will be a first-rate thing for me," said Corny, "to have a girl to go about with me, for mother said, yesterday, that it wouldn't do for me to be so much with boys. It looked tomboyish, she said, though she thought you two were very good for boys."
I returned deliberately to the first I had seen and there it was, black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and, with the shrunken dry lips showing a narrow white line of the teeth, was smiling, too, smiling continuously at some endless and jocose dream of that eternal slumber. "I am not disclosing any trade secrets.
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