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He obeyed reluctantly, and, glad to turn my back on him, I went up the ladder, still wondering faintly, in the midst of my annoyance, what his wife was about that my chance detection of her had so enraged him. Even now he was not quite himself.
And it was while he was in the midst of an anecdote proving the existence of this quality in his friend that he felt a sudden clutch on his arm. They listened. Faintly, very faintly, could be heard the sound of hoof beats; rapid, though distant. "Do you hear?" she whispered, and still held his arm. "It's just like them to race back," said Pembroke, with admirable nonchalance.
I dragged myself across to mother, and she opened her eyes and smiled faintly at the sight of our anxious faces. Her dear hands were terribly cut; she winced with pain as she sat up, and was evidently badly bruised, but it was such bliss to see her move and hear her speak that these seemed but light things.
To get away to the house on the river, where her husband came only at weekends, had hitherto been a refuge; only she would not see Mark there unless ! Then, with the thought that she would, must still see him sometimes, all again grew faintly glamorous. If only she did see him, what would the rest matter? Never again as it had before!
Tredowen has been in your mother's family for a great many years, and although I must say that I have a great affection for this young lady, I have also an old fashioned dislike to seeing er family property pass into the hands of strangers. You might, forgive me marry!" Wingrave smiled very faintly, otherwise his face was inscrutable. "I might," he admitted calmly, "but I shall not.
The naked eye perceives that there is something remarkable in that place, and the opera glass faintly reveals its distant splendors, but the telescope fairly carries us into its presence.
I'd give you a lift, only I can't, for I'm in rotten anchorage, and we mustn't get adrift." About a minute passed, in which little was heard but the whishing of the water through the leaves and twigs, and the sound of hard breathing. Then Joe spoke again "I don't want to hurry you, my lad, but if you think you can manage it I'd say, begin." "I'm ready now, Joe," said the boy faintly.
She felt with them as if she was feeling the floor, without quite understanding that she stood on it. The next moment, she reeled against the desk. "Giddy," she said, faintly and thickly. "My head." Her eyes looked at him, cold and big and staring. They maddened the poor affectionate creature with terror.
Clearly, he was gaining because after the cries ceased, the sound of hoof beats came but faintly. He urged his horse to the last ounce of his speed and soon the sound of the pursuing hoofs ceased entirely. The depression ended and he was on the flat plain. It was still cloudy, with no moon, but his eyes were used enough to the dark to tell him that the appearance of the country had changed.
"I am a generous man and very strong; do you know that, you little fool? Here, will you take this flower? There will be no more this year." I took it from his hand; it was a pink, faintly odorous blossom. "I love these fragile flowers best," he continued "where I have to protect them from my own touch, even." He relapsed into forgetfulness for a moment, and then began to study his memorandum book.
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