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With the help of the cabman they carried their packages down the footpath, and laid them in the darkened dining-room. The sun was setting as the distant murmur of wheels told them that they were finally alone. Pericord had thrown open the shutters and the mellow evening light streamed in through the discoloured windows.
In answer Nick would put one hand one broad, brown, steel-strong hand with its broken discoloured nails on Miss Ahearn's arm, in its flimsy georgette sleeve. Miss Ahearn's eyelids would flutter and close, and a little shiver would run with icy-hot feet all over Miss Ahearn. Nick was like that. Nick's real name wasn't Nick at all or scarcely at all.
The change that had come over his friend's countenance was to Harold, of course, far more gravely impressive than to those who had watched at the bedside. In the drawn features, large sunken eyes, thin and discoloured lips, it seemed to him that he read too surely the presage of doom. After holding the shrunken hand for a moment he was convulsed with an agonising sob, and had to turn away.
He glanced towards the letters, in which the writing seemed faint and discoloured by time or damp; and then once more regarding the face of Brandon, said in rather an anxious and subdued tone, "Heavens, Brandon! are you ill; or has anything happened? You alarm me!"
Several facts indicate that a considerable quantity of sediment is likewise discharged through these channels; and Captain Moresby informs me that he has observed, during the change of the monsoon, the sea discoloured to a distance off the entrances into the Maldiva and Chagos atolls. This, probably, would check the growth of the coral in them, far more effectually than a mere current of water.
The expression of rigid and awful despair that lowered in her fixed, gloomy eyes, the livid paleness that discoloured her compressed lips, the spasms that shook her firm, commanding form, mutely expressing in the divine eloquence of human emotion that between the solitary pair there existed the most intimate of earth's relationships the connection of mother and child.
She was handsomely dressed in stout black silk, of which not a thread was worn or discoloured. She was mending a large long table-cloth of the finest texture, holding it up against the light occasionally to discover thin places, which required her delicate care.
At that answer, though neither by look nor gesture had Israel pointed it, the face of Ben Aboo became suddenly discoloured and stern. "Allah! What do you mean?" he cried. "Who are you that you dare wag your insolent tongue at me?" "I am your scapegoat, Basha," said Israel, with an awful calm "your scapegoat, who bears your iniquities before the eyes of your people.
And every time the circling thought came home and settled again on the sight of that still straight figure lying on the mattress, against the discoloured bricks, with the light of the taper glimmering on his thin face and brown hair and beard; and every time her heart consented that this was the best of all.
"Oh, Martin!" gasped Sir Richard, leaning on his musket and bowing his head, "oh, Martin but for Pluto here " And now, as he paused, I saw the dog's fangs and tongue horribly discoloured. "'Tis all my fault!" said I bitterly. "I fell asleep at my post!" "Aye!" he groaned, "whereby are two men dead and one by my hand, God forgive me!" "Nay, but these were enemies bent on our murder!"
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