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But this being against the prohibitions of the Church, the priests and monks present worked with the utmost zeal to calm the frenzy which had seized on the nuns. Grandier meanwhile remained calm and unmoved, gazing fixedly at the maniacs, protesting his innocence, and praying to God for protection.
I was the first- comer, you observe, not yourselves, and I cannot say I was interested enough to listen to your conversation until my attention was attracted by the description of myself. I presume the very descriptive title was originally your invention?" He planted his stick on the ground, and stared fixedly in Mollie's face. The grey eyes fell before his, and she answered hesitatingly
Cinq-Mars, leaning against the lofty chimneypiece, awaited with a serious and sorrowful air the termination of this silence. At length De Thou, looking fixedly at him and crossing his arms, said in a hollow and melancholy voice: "This, then, is the goal you have reached! These, the consequences of your ambition!
She leaned over the young man, gazed earnestly, fixedly at his pale, cold face, which she almost touched, then imprinted a rapid kiss upon De Guiche's left hand, who, trembling as if an electric shock had passed through him, awoke a second time, opened his large eyes, incapable of recognition, and again fell into a state of complete insensibility.
He never succeeded, but, on the other hand, never gave up the contest; and should I ever walk those streets again, I am certain that the truncated tyrant will sprout up through the pavement and look me fixedly in the eye, and perhaps get the victory.
The marquis lowered his eyes for a moment, then he raised them and looked fixedly at Marie, who, watchful of his struggle, knew that look to be her death-warrant. "I would give my life," he said in a low voice, "for revenge on the spot."
Gradually as she talked Nina had crept away from her, and sitting upright in bed, stared at her fixedly, her face for once putting on the mature dignity of her years, and seeming older than Edith's. Then the clear-minded, rational Nina spoke out, "Miggie Bernard, were you ten thousand times engaged to Richard, it shall not be.
Nigel looked at her fixedly. "No, Ruby, not to-night." She sank back. "Very well. But I thought you liked my coffee." "So I did. So I shall again." He put out his hand to touch hers. "Only not to-night." "Just as you like." "We've there are other things to-night." He kept his eyes always fixed upon hers. "Other things!" she said. "Yes sleep. You must rest well to-night, and so must I."
"Then why not go to the Barracks? Order the carriage, and I will go with you." His smile faded. He stood looking down at her fixedly, as was sometimes his habit. Grave tenderness was in his tone. "Jinny," he said slowly, "Jinny, do you mean to marry Clarence?" The suddenness of the question took her breath. But she answered steadily: "Yes." "Do you love him? "Yes," she answered.
In issuing these orders, Colonel de Haldimar evinced a composedness that astonished all who heard him. But although his voice was calm, despair was upon his brow. Still he continued to gaze fixedly on the retreating form of his enemy, until he finally disappeared behind the orchard of the Canadian of the Fleur de lis.
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