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Dawn was creeping through the orchid blinds of their sleeping chamber when this strange Queen disengaged herself from her lover's embrace, and bent over him, kissing his young curved lips. He stirred not the languor of utter prostration was upon him, and held him in its grasp. In the uncertain light his sleep looked pale as death. The lady gazed at him, an anguish too deep for tears in her eyes.
She disengaged herself from the boy's arms and her terribly beautiful, painfully exquisite, trance. "Give me one more kiss, tell me once more that you love me and only me, for ever, and let us go.... God bless this place. I thank God. I love God now ..." she said. Dam could not speak at all.
The staid footman became, if possible, a little more reserved. If the gentleman would send in his card he would see if Miss Ruth was disengaged. David found himself vaguely wondering what Miss Ruth's surname might be. The old Biblical name was a great favourite of his. "I'm afraid I haven't a card," he said. "Will you say that Mr. Steel would like to see er Miss Ruth for a few minutes?
Of those who adopt that state with a view to have their minds disengaged from the world, that they may be more at leisure to apply themselves to divine things, those only are chaste with whom the love of a life truly conjugial either preceded that state or followed it, and with whom it remains; for the love of a life truly conjugial is that alone of which chastity is predicated.
Yet he walked purposefully and, little by little, faster. He looked about him in a sort of dazed bewilderment when she disengaged her hand and stopped, at last, at the corner of the delicatessen shop, beside the entrance to her little tunnel. "Here's where I live," she said. "Where you live!" he echoed blankly. "Ever since I went away to California.
This having the siatko, a long allek, and the inflated seal-skin attached to it, the whale immediately dives, taking the whole apparatus with him except the katteelik which, being disengaged in the manner before described, floats to the surface and is picked up by its owner.
Mr Farrell disengaged his hand, and turned aside with a wearied air. "Good-bye, Melland!" he repeated. "I wish you a pleasant journey!" So far as any change of voice or manner was concerned, he might not have heard the young man's protest. Jack turned away, miserable and abashed. It was the last time he ever saw Bernard Farrell alive.
Now his feet stuck fast in the mud, and now, by a desperate effort, he disengaged himself with the loss of both his shoes; thus labouring on, with infinite pain and difficulty he reached the land.
He had striven in vain with his disengaged hand to draw away the interlaced fingers she had knitted across her eyes, but at this appeal she cast her arms abroad and looked at him with a swift intentness through her tears. 'You mean it? she asked with an eager fierceness in her eyes and voice. 'Mean it? he answered. 'What, the dear little woman? Of course I mean it.
The door was opened by the master of the house, Michael Blake, a man of forty-five or so, the wealthy senior of New Jedboro's greatest manufacturing firm. I suppose he looked first at me, but my first sensation was of his keen eye swiftly falling on the shabby travelling-bag in my left hand, my right kept disengaged for any friendly overture which might await me.
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