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A vague feeling of jealousy tightened on the magistrate's heart as he read this letter, the only letter from a suicide he had ever found written with such lightness, though it was a feverish lightness, and the last effort of a blind affection. "What is there in the man that he should be loved so well?" thought he, saying what every man says who has not the gift of attracting women.
"Ah, such wit! Such charm!" enthused another voice at Benton's back. "She is most perfect in those gowns of unbroken lines, with a single rose." Evidently the men left the tables at once, for Benton heard no more. He also turned away a moment later to make way for an Italian in whose feverish eyes burned the roulette-lust.
"You know that better than I do." "Yes yes. They must have food." "She suggested the going out herself," said Dowie. "I'd thought she'd be too weak and listless to move. And they ought to have exercise." "They must have exercise," agreed Doctor Benton, but he still rubbed his chin. "Did she seem excited or feverish?" "No, sir, she didn't. That was the strange thing.
And, slamming the door with a violence which shook the house, the burgomaster drew his friend after him. Little by little, when they had taken twenty steps on their road, the worthy notables grew more calm. Their pace slackened, their gait became less feverish. The flush on their faces faded away; from being crimson, they became rosy.
The low continuous sound of rasping and gnawing of timber which followed heightened the resemblance. At the end of a few minutes he had succeeded in removing enough of the outer planking to show that the entire filling of the casing between the stanchions was composed of small boxes. Dragging out one of them with feverish eagerness to the light, the Lascar forced it open.
She was so thin and haggard she had such red, red cheeks such feverish eyes such an altogether wild and distraught air that timid Grace shrank back and looked at Walter, who remained with the packages and bundles at the head of the stairs. Nan and Bess likewise looked at the girl with some trepidation; but they held their ground. "What do you want? Who are you?" asked Jennie Albert, hoarsely.
She had given way, very silently, for as he bent close to her he felt the tearful aroma of her uneven breath the feverish flush on cheek and hand, the almost imperceptible tremor of her slender body rather close to him now. When she had regained her composure, and her voice was under command, she straightened up, face averted. "You are quite perfect, Mr.
My friend Governor Dennison was Postmaster-General, and in his house I had full opportunity to judge of the keen, almost feverish interest with which public men and leading citizens were following the rapid march of both military and civil affairs.
From the lofty windows of plain white glass fell broad sheets of sunlight, which set a gory glow upon the faded damask hangings, and these cast a reflection as of fire upon all the tumultuous, feverish, impatient faces.
That night, as on many a night previous, Nell's grandfather went out, leaving the child in the strange house alone, to return in the early morning. Quilp, to whom the old man had again applied for money, learnt of these nocturnal expeditions, and sent no answer, but came in person to the old curiosity shop. The old man was feverish and excited as he impatiently addressed the dwarf.
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