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But while this train of thought passed through his mind, he realized she was regarding him with clear, compassionate eyes, and he heard her voice: "Shall we go now? The services are over." He obeyed without question. "Over!" Those moments by her side would never return! They were about to part to meet no more on earth. He leaned heavily upon her arm and his steps were faltering.
There is no haste, no faltering, when once the scheme of the day's toilet has been set. It is a calm toilet. A flower does not grow more calmly. Any of us, any day, may see the gracious figure of Mr. Le V., as he saunters down the slope of St. James's. Long may the sun irradiate the surface of his tilted hat!
For a second or two she made no answer, and then, faltering at each word, she said, 'What if some rebel leader this man Donogan, for instance drawn towards you b some secret magic of trustfulness, moved by I know not what need of your sympathy for there is such a craving void now and then felt in the heart should tell you some secret thought of his nature something that he could utter alone to himself would you bring yourself to use it against him?
'And what? said Tancred, in a low, sweet voice, for she hesitated. 'I have a vague impression, said Eva, sorrowfully, 'that there have been heroic aspirations wasted, and noble energies thrown away; and yet, perhaps, she added, in a faltering tone, 'there is no one to blame.
Yet apprehensive that his forbearance to obey would be more alarming, he repeated in a faltering and low voice the following lines: "Where'er a casque that suits this sword is found, With perils is thy daughter compass'd round; ALFONSO'S blood alone can save the maid, And quiet a long restless Prince's shade."
And through the long afternoon, with unceasing and brutal ferocity, he belabored the faltering, stumbling, half-starved creatures, till from sheer exhaustion they were like to fall upon the trail.
I saw, as I moved with bruised limbs to the place, close by the lips of the dying magician, the flash of the ruby-like essence spilled on the sward, and, meteor-like, sparkling up from the torn tufts of herbage. I now reached Margrave's side. Bending over him as the Veiled Woman bent, and as I sought gently to raise him, he turned his face, fiercely faltering out, "Touch me not, rob me not!
She compelled us to realise the things we scarcely dare foresee.... I shall never forget a letter in which she wrote these words in a queer, faltering handwriting: "If men suspected what took place in a woman's inner life after forty, they would avoid us like the plague, or knock us on the head like mad dogs." Such a philosophy of life ended in the poor woman being shut up in a madhouse.
Some were wounded, and, cowed of the courage they had lately shown, were begging aid, and craving water, in a tone of melancholy depression, while others tried to teach the faltering tongue to pronounce some half-forgotten prayer, which, even when first learned, they had but half understood.
Of course we now required a broader passage than when we came through ourselves. We took exactly the same route; our guide never faltering for a moment, though in many places I should have had difficulty, where the marks of our axes were not to be seen, in finding the road.
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