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He looked grave and anxious, and he had a long conversation with Gertrude late in the afternoon. Tuesday evening found us quiet, with the quiet that precedes an explosion. Gertrude and Halsey were both gloomy and distraught, and as Liddy had already discovered that some of the china was broken it is impossible to have any secrets from an old servant I was not in a pleasant humor myself.
The ship was almost touching the Pearl now, as tall as a mountain and as swift as a train. Mme. Roland, distraught and desperate, held out her arms towards it; and she saw her son, her Pierre, with his officer's cap on, throwing kisses to her with both hands. But he was going away, flying, vanishing, a tiny speck already, no more than an imperceptible spot on the enormous vessel.
It is my husband who is like a man distraught." "The voice of Nature speaks loudly in the paternal-breast," said Dr. Oleander. "'Nater will caper, as Ethan Spike says. Mollie's mamma must have been a very pretty woman, Blanche." Mrs.
His friends did what they could to maintain the governor's cause; but Burghley, Walsingham, Hatton, and the rest of them, were all "at their wits end," and were nearly distraught at the delay in Davison's arrival. Meantime the Queen's stomach was not so much pacified but that she was determined to humiliate the Earl with the least possible delay.
His tone was excited and his manner distraught. "Yes?" the Hawk muttered thickly. "What is it?" "It's the asteroid, sir! I was instructed to watch it at intervals, but I I guess I fell asleep, and just now " Carse sat up. "Yes? What?" " when I looked, through the glasses it was gone!" "Gone? You're sure? Let me see."
Martha was too feather-headed for an errand such as that. She thought of Ahulah, but some of those well-intentioned friends that everyone possesses had told of the misadventure to her husband, and the latter, cruel as a woman, had spat upon her, and now through the suburbs she wandered, distraught, incompetent to aid. Her brother occurred to her. It was on him she could rely.
Miss Mapp was now quite distraught. There was the possibility that the Contessa might tell Major Benjy that it was time he married, but on the other hand she was making arrangements to go to tea with him on an unknown date, and the hero of amorous adventures in India and elsewhere might lose his heart again to somebody quite different from one whom he could hope to marry.
His distraught mind was traveling swiftly through the barren paths of hopelessness and despair, while yet he had to keep his children in countenance under their fire of childish prattle. Many times he could have flung aside his mask and given up, but the babyish laughter held him to an effort such as he had never before been called upon to make.
Then one of the widows stepped out, and approaching the girl, laid her hand on her arm. "Are ye making a mock of me, Mary Bell?" she said, "Or is it God's truth ye're speaking to my husband lying there?" The distraught creature called Mary Bell looked up with a sudden passion glowing in her tear-wet eyes.
You would have seen him on the day of your arrival, ere yet you became distraught, but that a heaviness lay upon him because of the loss of a precious manuscript on its way hither from Rome a manuscript which had been procured for him after much searching, only to be lost by the folly of one to whom it was intrusted; if, indeed, it was not rather whisked away by the Evil One, who, powerless for graver ill against our holy father, at times seeks to discomfort him by small practice of spite.
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