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He must be here soon and with him you would be safe." "Don't be frightened, Chili. I don't need your uncle." "If you would let me, I would go in front of you." "No, thanks! No, thanks!" And Orso, spurring his horse, rode rapidly in the direction to which the little girl had pointed.
The time would come when they would crawl to her to marry Graham, to keep him from going to war. Then she would make her own terms. In the meantime the thing was to hold him by every art she knew. There was another girl, somewhere. She had been more frightened about that than she cared to admit, even to herself. She must hold him close. She used every art she knew. She deliberately inflamed him.
"I can't imagine what he would say if he found out that his watch-goose had brought a stranger into the house," said Ch'ang. "Perhaps he would think we were trying to steal some of the money he has hidden away," she answered, laughing, for as Hu-lin became used to her cramped quarters she grew less frightened. At any rate she was not nearly so much afraid of the miser as she had thought she was.
In the excitement, of course, she had not had time to think out every single thing carefully and definitely. It occurred to her now, after some meditation, that she might simply have said to mamma: "He had frightened me so by getting into my boat, that when I upset and I knew I wasn't going to drown, I didn't want to call him back".... Darkness crept into the white-and-cherry bedroom.
Lucy screamed, and Jasper Vermont turned rather pale, for he instantly recognised the voice as that of the man he had sought so diligently all that day. But he had no desire to be discovered just then, so, taking the frightened woman almost savagely by the arm, he whispered fiercely: "You may let him in I know him. But if he finds out that I am here, I will tell John all to-night; remember that.
Also it is our business to watch here by the waggon till our master and mistress return." "Where can they have gone?" said the driver, who felt frightened, he knew not why. "It is strange that they should be so long away when it is time for them to sleep." "Who can account for the ways of white people?" answered the other, shrugging his shoulders. "Very often they sit up all night.
When one sees a dead man, wrapped in sailcloth, fly, turning somersaults in the water, and remembers that it is several miles to the bottom, one feels frightened, and for some reason begins to fancy that one will die oneself and will be thrown into the sea. Our horned cattle have fallen sick. Through the united verdict of Dr.
I didn't want him to. I wish I had stopped him." He looked at her shrewdly. "You've got an attack of nerves," he observed. She still sought to smile though the attempt was a poor one. "To be quite honest I am rather frightened." "Frightened!" He pushed a sudden arm around her, looking comical and tender in the same moment. "And so you sent for me!
And sometimes, waking from a doze, he would find her in her chair by the window, with her book dropped into her lap and a frightened look in her eyes, staring at him. He gained strength rapidly and the day came when, with the orderly's assistance, he was lifted to a chair. There was one brief moment in which he stood tottering on his feet.
Sextus turned toward the row of gibbets, pointing at them. "That is the risk we take together. If we escape that, you shall not go unrewarded from the fortune I redeem. Norbanus, you accept my leadership?" Norbanus chuckled. "I insist on it!" he answered. He, too, pointed at the row of gibbets. "To be frightened will provide us with no armor against destiny!
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