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Better to be the Lord's captive than the Lord's betrayer! The wasted form was drawn up to its full height, the arm was outstretched, the long cloak fell back from it in long folds voice and eye were majesty itself. Robert had a tremor of responsive passion.
And brightly, too, the sunshine fell on Dennie Saxon's rippling hair, recalling to Vincent Burgess' memory the woodland camp fire and the old legend told in the October twilight and the flickering flames lighting Dennie's face and the wavy folds of her sunny hair.
With the proclamation of pardon rolled up tightly and hidden within the folds of his tunic, Taurus Antinor led the way out of the lararium. The afternoon light was slowly sinking into the embrace of evening. The vast deserted palace, with its rows of monumental columns and statues of stone gods looked spectral and mysterious in the fast gathering gloom.
And before anybody quite knew how it was done, there was the new child sitting on her cricket, and huddled up against the soft folds of Phronsie's white gown, while Phronsie, standing close to the platform edge, began again, "Dear children, you know this is Christmas Day your very own Christmas Day.
"Never again!" she said thickly from the folds of her denim skirt, "I'll never see him comin' home again!" The riders stirred. Sympathy ached in their hearts, but not a man had speech to comfort her. It was Billy, the impulsive, who reached a hand to her shoulder and gripped it hard. Tharon reached up and touched the hand in gratitude.
Was there not some miscount, and was it not fifteen instead? As old and as wise as the Cumæan Sybil at one moment, as light and careless as a Hebe the next. Would not this war of wisdom and folly be decided ere long? She opened the paper and smoothed out the folds. "Madame Angot. There is a letter for you in the mail-department of this office." It was so droll.
He said it was spoken with a hard-hearted wickedness that, even when he did not know who it was, made him long to crush him like a reptile; and when he had seen Violet and the children, though it might be interference, he said he could as soon have left them in the folds of a serpent! 'Ah! my poor girl! 'But this frees her. Oh! she cannot grieve for such a wretch!
Lila's thin shoulders gave an irritable little shrug under the silken folds of her dressing-gown, and her finely cut features screwed for an instant into an expression of impatient dislike. It was only for an instant then the mask of her conventional courtesy dropped again between the two convalescents. "Why not tell the doctor or the nurse what you wish to write? They will attend to it for you.
Her dress could not have hung in such subtle folds, her white chin have nestled in such rich depths of fur, the pearls in her ears have given back the light from such pure curves, if thin shoulders in shapeless gingham had not bent, day in, day out, above the bobbins and carders, and weary ears throbbed even at night with the tumult of the looms.
The Prince desires to see you! "She rose up, very pale. '''My God, she said, 'what shall I do? "And then she began to fumble in the folds of her dress for the knife your friend gave her. "'Be calm and patient, I said; 'do nothing desperate. On the night after next your friend will come for you. We must delay matters all we can.
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