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'M. Lecamus. is it for this that they have come? His head had begun to droop again, and a dimness came over his face. 'Do I know? he said. 'It was them I longed for, not to know their errand; but I have not yet said all. You are to send two two whom you esteem the highest to speak with them face to face. Then at once there rose a tumult among the people an eagerness which nothing could subdue.
She lay where they had dragged her, just above the hungry tide, a slender, pitiful thing, young and beautiful, yet now dreadfully pale and still, shrouded in her long, wet tresses; a mute and beautiful thing, all heedless now of the rough hands that touched her, or the kindly sun's tender beam that showed the pitiful droop of pallid lips and motionless lashes, and the slender fingers of the small, right hand clenched in death.
She gave no intimation of having heard him till he placed the wineglass to her mouth and raised her head tenderly; then she swallowed the contents mechanically. At the expiration of an hour he repeated the dose, and at ten o'clock, while he sat watching her intently, he saw the eyelids begin to droop, the long, silky lashes quivered and touched her cheeks.
"That's the stuff!" said Droop, smacking his lips. He half-emptied the beaker, and then, turning to the drawer: "Can you tell me," he said, "if I can find a man by the name of Hart here Sir Percevall Hart?" "Sir Percevall," said the drawer, in an undertone. "Why, there's your man, master. The fat knight snoring by yon fire." "What!" exclaimed Droop.
Judging by such a standard, I should say that "Cupid sleeping in the lap of Venus," by Correggio, is the glory of this collection. The beautiful limbs of the boy-god droop in the repose of slumber, as his head rests on his mother's knee, and there is a smile lingering around his half-parted lips, as if he was dreaming new triumphs.
But as he went out, he had noticed the tiny wrinkles near her eyes, the slight hardness about her cheek-bones, the cynical droop at the corners of her mouth. And he had remembered these things when he learnt of the marriage, and he had foreseen disaster. He smoothed out Nigel's letter, and he took up his pen to answer it. Since he could not answer it in person, he must despatch the substitute.
She was seeing herself as she was then, and so was he; but it deepened his resolution. How beautiful she used to be! He seemed to see her there as if she stood in perpetual sunlight, with a w~arm sheen in her hair and dimples in her cheeks. She saw her thin red wrists, her gaunt and knotted hands. There was a pitiful droop in the thin pale lips, and the tears fell slowly from her drooping lashes.
He drew up before them and gasped out his news in a breath. "Ship stan'in' off sho' 'bout half a mile suh. Mose, he uz on watch, he say look's if she's done ancho'd." "A ship what kind of a ship?" demanded Carlyle anxiously. Dismay was in his voice, and Ardita's heart gave a sudden wrench as she saw his whole face suddenly droop. "He say he don't know, suh." "Are they landing a boat?" "No, suh."
Henri, and Adolphe, and others, will be here on Sunday; and our different duties will commence immediately." "And will yours keep you altogether away from Clisson?" "Very nearly so; at any rate, I could not name the day or the week, when I might be with you. You and Marie will be all in all to each other now; do not let her droop and grow sad, Victorine."
When the scanty followers of the earl thus beheld the immense force arrayed for their destruction, and saw the extent of their danger, and their loss, here the handful, there the multitude, a simultaneous exclamation of terror and dismay broke from their ranks. "Children!" cried Warwick, "droop not! Henry at Agincourt had worse odds than we!"
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