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Heaven knows I need it. And you will be a little kind!" Her hands were clasped about his neck. He disengaged himself gently. "Blanche!" he cried, hoarsely, "I love another woman!" "Are you engaged to her?" "No! Not now!" "Then what does it matter? What does it matter, anyhow? It is not the real thing I am asking you for, Lawrence only the make-belief!
Chester shook his head, and was about to speak, but his wife rose just then half leaning on his chair, her arm somehow got around his neck, and bending her red lips close to his cheek she raised the only hand that was disengaged and folded the fingers over his mouth. "Not a word, John not a word; only promise to let me have my own way I will have it you know that well enough!"
O! if souls disengaged from their terrestrial bonds, yet view from the bosom of eternal light what passes here below, pardon, dear and respectable shade, that I show no more favor to your failings than my own, but equally unveil both. I ought and will be just to you as to myself; but how much less will you lose by this resolution than I shall!
Middleton was gone without having made any avowal; and notwithstanding the admiration for the handsome Miss Harleth, extending perhaps over thirty square miles in a part of Wessex well studded with families whose numbers included several disengaged young men, each glad to seat himself by the lively girl with whom it was so easy to get on in conversation, notwithstanding these grounds for arguing that Gwendolen was likely to have other suitors more explicit than the cautious curate, the fact was not so.
'I! answered Ralph, hoarsely. 'Hush, hush! cried the terrified Gride, catching him by the arm again. 'Hear what he says. 'Ay! said Nicholas, extending his disengaged hand in the air, 'hear what he says. That both your debts are paid in the one great debt of nature. That the bond, due today at twelve, is now waste paper. That your contemplated fraud shall be discovered yet.
In the fall he disengaged himself from the major, and, leaping up, made for the garden wall, over which he succeeded in clambering before the latter could seize him. Thus both burglars escaped, and Major Stewart returned to the house half-naked, his shirt having been torn off his back, and bleeding freely from cuts caused by the glass door.
He felt, as she remained in his embrace with her body leaning against his, that she quivered throughout her frame; his lips wandered from her ear to her cheek and then to her lips, there they rested long in a ravishing kiss that filled him with the languishing sensation of swooning, he holding her so tightly that, with a smile, she disengaged herself, pink with her blushes, and bright-eyed, said, with an expression of peculiar delight: "It is sealed now!"
Wain could not resist the opportunity to show off before the party, which included Mary B.'s entire family and several other neighbors, who had gathered to see the travelers off. "Good-by ter Patesville! Good-by, folkses all!" he cried, with a wave of his disengaged hand. "Good-by, mother!
And daily, every morning, she stepped into that little pony chaise with a basket and drove off Preston was at the pains to find out to spend a couple of hours with Molly Skelton. Preston sighed with impatience. And then in the very act of dressing and practising for the pictures, Daisy was provokingly cool and disengaged.
Alice pulled the door shut with her disengaged hand, and spoke eagerly into the transmitter. "Is Mr. Russ Dalwood there? It's very important!" Ruth saw the look of dismay that came over her sister's face. Then through the double glass door she heard Alice say: "He's gone! And you don't know where? Left ten minutes ago? Oh dear!" Slowly she hung up the receiver. There seemed nothing else to do.
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