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Her face slightly flushed, and she turned her beautiful eyes upon me with such an endearing expression of affection that I could have thrown myself into her arms but for the check upon my ardour which her own reserve imposed upon me. Nothing more took place between us that day.
The muscles of his arms rise up like rolls of gutta-percha; the knotted veins stand out on his flushed forehead, but all in vain the house continues to diverge, and Ian feeling the game to be all but lost, pulls with the concentrated energy of rage and despair. The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack. It won't do. As well might mortal man pull against Niagara falls.
He didn't have sense to know the difference between a calf and God." Ferdy flushed. "Well, my old man knows enough to run this railroad. He has run bigger things than this." "If he knows as much as his son, he knows a lot. He ought to be able to run the world." And the squire turned back to Rhodes: "What are you goin' to do, my son, when you've done all you say you're goin' to do for us?
You have fooled me as you have fooled everyone." She stood suddenly erect, her eyes flashing. "If you planned to kill my brother, why did you not have the manhood to meet him face to face?" Ferguson flushed. Would it help his case to deny that he had thought of fooling her, that he never had any intention of shooting Ben? He thought not. Leviatt had poisoned her mind against him. He smiled grimly.
"Therefore," and Helen's voice was very low, while surging upwards from her neck a swift wave of color flushed cheek and brow. "I have come of my own will to say what you asked of me. You have loved and served me faithfully, and it is not gratitude only which prompts me now." There was a space in which Helen caught her breath.
Percival with a flushed face and a feeling of gratification and pride that he should be thought of in connection with a responsible duty. "I am very much obliged to you, Mr. Percival," he said, "for thinking of me in such a connection.
She looked at Raymond with tired eyes, and he felt that, like himself, she was older, wiser, different. He measured the extent of her experiences and felt sorry for her. "Sabina," he said. "I must apologise for one mistake. When I asked you to come back to me and live with me, I did a caddish thing. It wasn't worthy of me, or you. I'm awfully sorry. I forgot myself there." She flushed.
In love, he reasoned and felt about her like an inexperienced boy, all his experience going for nothing. He went on: "I understand we can never be anything to each other until you're on the stage and arrived. I'd not have it otherwise, if I could. For I want YOU, and I'd never believe I had you unless you were free." The color was fading from her cheeks. At this it flushed deeper than before.
"Plenty," he said, drawing a letter out of his pocket. "Your writ, my dear lady, runs as easily in the City as elsewhere." And he held up an envelope. She flushed. "You have got your allotment? But I knew you would. Lady Froswick promised." "And a large allotment, too," he said, joyously. "I am the envy of all my friends. Some of them have got a few shares, and have already sold them grumbling.
"I think you may add me to Lubin as your friend," observed St Aubyn; at which Austin flushed with pleasure. "But now, one other word. You say you want to realise your highest self. Well, the way to do it is not to live for yourself alone; it is to live for others. To save oneself one must first lose oneself forget oneself, when occasion arises for the sake of other people.
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