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Once, he reined in abruptly, and both stopped. Confronting them, a dozen paces away, was a half-grown red fox. For half a minute, with beady eyes, the wild thing studied them, with twitching sensitive nose reading the messages of the air. Then, velvet-footed, it leapt aside and was gone among the trees. "The son-of-a-gun!" Billy ejaculated.
"It is possible that you are right," she replied, "but, in that case, I love you with my pride and with my mind, and that is worth something, at all events. I want to see you honored, famous, and influential; is not that also love?" "No, it is a mockery!" ejaculated Gentz, mournfully.
As I listened to the words and realized what they meant, a great shadow seemed to pass from my soul. I did not know how this Agra treasure had weighed me down, until now that it was finally removed. It was selfish, no doubt, disloyal, wrong, but I could realize nothing save that the golden barrier was gone from between us. "Thank God!" I ejaculated from my very heart.
"True as I live!" ejaculated the other, in unfeigned surprise. "I never dreamed of such a thing. Eighty-seven dollars. That will never do in the world. I must cut this down." "A simple matter of figures. I wonder you had not thought of counting the cost. Now I do not smoke at all. It is a bad habit, that injures the health, and makes us disagreeable to our friends, to say nothing of the expense.
She met his look unflinching. "I have not been sighing for tidings of the Comte de Mar, monsieur." "Because you have had tidings, mademoiselle?" "No, monsieur, I have had no communication with M. de Mar since May until to-night." "And what has happened to-night?" "To-night Paul appeared." "Paul!" ejaculated the duke, startled momentarily out of his phlegm. "Paul here?"
"Why not?" asked Victorine, opening her eyes wide in astonishment. "I ride all over the parish on my pony alone." "Stupid of me!" ejaculated Willan, inwardly: "as if these people could know any scruples about etiquette!" "These people," as Willan contemptuously called them, stood at the door of the inn, and watched him riding away with Victorine with hardly disguised exultation.
Potswood endured agonies of suspense, though he also insisted that Mason's wishes must be observed exactly. "What is it all what can it be?" he ejaculated again and again. "What dreadful influence can thus compass a man about, here in London, in these times?" It was autumn, and night fell early. Dinner was over at last, and they had scarcely left the table when Plummer arrived, anxious and eager.
The Arab gravely shook his head, with never a glimmer of a smile rear the mouth or eyes. "Ah! no! you need not worry, a caravan of many persons has preceded us." "Many people!" ejaculated Jill. "What a lot of servants for two!" "Let me explain! In Egypt, Arabia, or Persia, when we speak of sheep or horses we say so many 'head, but not so of the camel.
"No, no, no!" ejaculated the reverend gentleman. "I exhorted you to true repentance, to peace, charity, to" "True repentance, peace, charity!" broke in the prisoner, with a scornful burst; "when my heart is full of rage, and bitterness, and despair! Give me time for this repentance which you say is so needful time to lure back long since banished hope, and peace, and faith!
Madeleine beckoned her cousin to follow to her boudoir, and, in a few words, recounted what had just taken place. Maurice had listened, too completely awe-stricken for language, until Madeleine rose and asked, "Will you not go to him now, Maurice?" Then he ejaculated, "How mysteriously all things are ordered, Madeleine! Truly you are the ministering angel of our family!"
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