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They waved back to their late companion when, climbing into the waiting buggy below, he was finally driven away. Johnnie turned and looked long at her uncle with swimming eyes, as he stood gazing where the vehicle had disappeared. She finally laid a tremulous hand on his arm. "Oh, Uncle Pros," she said falteringly, "I can't believe it yet. But you you do understand me now, don't you? You know me.
"Nero, sir; but he is free from the sanguinary propensities of his Roman namesake." Harley was about to pass on, when Leonard said falteringly, "Pardon me, but can it be possible that you are one whom I have sought in vain on behalf of the child of Captain Digby?" Harley stopped short. "Digby!" he exclaimed, "where is he? He should have found me easily. I gave him an address."
"Poor Saville!" said she, falteringly; "he died without a pang. Ah! he had the best temper possible." Godolphin sat by the writing-table of the deceased, shading his brow with the hand which the actress left disengaged. "Fanny," said he, bitterly, after a pause, "the world is indeed a stage. It has lost a consummate actor, though in a small part."
I entered the drawing-room, and shut the door. Ellen was at the far end; and as I entered with a light step, she did not perceive me till I was close by. She started when she saw me; and her cheek, before very pale, deepened into crimson. "Good Heavens! is it you," she said, falteringly "I I thought but but excuse me for an instant, I will call my mother."
His feet peeped from out of his boots, his damp hair seemed glued to his temples, his eyes were sunken, his cheeks were mere bone, his lips were blue and hollow. He entered the courtyard falteringly like one who would steal something but does not know how to set about it, and there he stood at the entrance of the hall, leaning against the lintel, with eyes cast down upon the ground.
"My name's Payson," Jack began hurriedly, casting a hasty glance backward into the hallway, for the ceremony was about to begin. "You want to see me?" "Jack!" cried Dick, holding out his hand eagerly. "Jack, old man, don't you know me?" he continued falteringly, seeing no sign of recognition in his friend's eyes. Payson gasped, shocked and startled.
What would you say to twenty-five shillings a week, sir?" She looked at him deprecatingly, and as he did not answer she went on falteringly, "You see, sir, it may seem a good deal, but you would have the best of attendance and careful cooking and my husband, sir he would be pleased to valet you." "I shouldn't want anything of that sort done for me," said Mr. Sleuth hastily.
"Carmen lives here in this house," she answered, at length. "Can it be possible that you are " "Brother Mauer, who you have thought was dead ages ago," he replied falteringly. "Heaven be praised!" cried Agatha, and sank into a chair.
Taking Philip's arm, he was for swinging him along; but Philip, still looking towards the street, said falteringly, "Did you, perhaps, see a man a young man going out at the door?" "When?" "As you came in." "Was there?" said the Clerk dubiously; then, as by a sudden light, "Did he wear a round hat and a monkey-jacket?" "Maybe I hardly know I didn't observe." "That'll be the man.
"I know it all, Jem," she said with a trembling lip; "I heard it all no, not from THEM, but from your own lips in your delirium. I'm glad it came from YOU even then." "Do you forgive me, Bessy?" She pressed her lips to his forehead and said hastily, and then falteringly, as if afraid of her impulse: "Yes. Yes." "And you will still be mother to the child?" "HER child?"
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