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In the dim lamplight, the inward affection, the imagination, maintained their rights over the real; it was Ottilie that was resting in Edward's arms; and the Captain, now faintly, now clearly, hovered before Charlotte's soul. And so, strangely intermingled, the absent and the present flowed in a sweet enchantment one into the other.
There must have been some poison in the food, to take us all suddint like this." "Oh, no, Brother Bart!" gasped Freddy, faintly. "I've been this way before. We're all just just seasick, Brother Bart dead seasick." Even Dan had a few qualms, just enough to send him, with the sturdy sense of his rough kind, out into the widest sweep of briny air within his reach.
The sound soon carried Tom off to the river and the woods, and he began to go over in his mind the many occasions on which he had heard that toll coming faintly down the breeze, and had to pack his rod in a hurry and make a run for it, to get in before the gates were shut. He was roused with a start from his memories by Arthur's voice, gentle and weak from his late illness.
Kneeling now beside the bed she promised to do all that her adopted mother asked her, adding, "and I shall never, never leave feyther as long as he lives." The woman smiled faintly. "Many a girl ha' said that afore now, Polly, and ha' changed her moind when the roight man asked her. Don't ee make any promises that away, lass.
"Tell us about your brother; we're all friends." "Friends and comrades," Blythe said faintly. "That's it, you said it," Roy assured him. "He tried to kill me," Blythe said. "Why did he try to do that Blythey?" Roy asked. "We're your friends; tell us all about it. You remember better than you used to?" "I thought I told you," the invalid said simply. "They're going to take me to Canada next week.
The place was called Mesquite Wells; the man dwelt alone in his desolation, with no living being except his mule for company. How could he endure it! I was not able, even faintly, to comprehend it; I had not lived long enough.
Will was looking at him oddly, almost as if he had never seen him before. "Do you know," he said, smiling faintly, "I always thought you were a rotter." "Most people do," said Nick. "I believe it's my physiognomy that's at fault. What can any one expect from a fellow with a face like an Egyptian mummy? Why, I've been mistaken for the devil himself before now."
"I don't want to hurt you, mother, but don't you see? He tyrannizes over all of us, and it's bad for our souls. Why should he bellow at the servants? Or talk to you the way he did to-night?" She smiled faintly. "We're all drowning, and I want to swim, that's all. Mr. Doyle " "You are talking nonsense," said Grace sharply.
He has told me that upon that afternoon he was only very dimly, very very faintly aware of it, aware of it only fiercely to deny it. He knew, however stoutly he might refuse to acknowledge it, that the events of the last weeks had bred in him some curiosity, some excitement that he could not analyse.
At last he said in a stern but low voice, in which, however, a quick ear might detect a tremor of agitation: "I have changed my mind, sir: I want my money back." At this, though David's face had prepared him, Mr. Hardie's heart sank: but there was no help for it. He said faintly, "Certainly. May I ask ?" and there he stopped; for it was hardly prudent to ask anything.
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