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And oh, Daddy, most of the time I am afraid because I married David, when I see how much he knows. Just think of it, he has lived all alone ever since he was young, and done nothing but read and study. Now he brings all those treasures to me, to make me happy with, and he frightens me."
And you will probably show them all sorts of indiscreet kindnesses, but don't be too altruistic, my good Emily. The man is odious, and the girl looks like a native beauty. She rather frightens me." "I don't think Captain Osborn is odious," Emily answered. "And she is pretty, you know. She is frightened of us, really."
Lived and loved up to the moment when it broke, and that was the best way." "Gee! was there ever a woman like you!" lifting his glad, gay gaze to the sky. "Why, Pearl, it most frightens me when I think how happy me and you are going to be together." "Are we?" nestling closer to him. "How?" "How?" he repeated. "Why, we're going to be together first and last; ain't that enough? It is for me.
"I feel so miserable," went on the girl, still speaking with a touch of excitement which in her was so very unusual. "What happened this morning has spoiled what I thought was such a beautiful friendship! And then I feel frightened horribly frightened" she went on in a low voice. "What is it that frightens you, Helen?" asked Blanche.
"I don't like to think of him all alone down there with these two," Franklin whispered impressively. "Upon my word I don't. God only knows what may be going on there... Don't laugh. It was bad enough last voyage when Mrs Brown had a cabin aft; but now it's worse. It frightens me. I can't sleep sometimes for thinking of him all alone there, shut off from us all." Mrs Brown was the steward's wife.
Let us try as much as we will to convince our neighbours; but let us beware of influencing their conduct, when we fail in influencing their convictions: he who bribes or frightens his neighbour into doing an act which no good man would do for reward or from fear, is tempting his neighbour to sin; he is assisting to lower and to harden his conscience, to make him act for the favour or from the fear of man, instead of for the favour or from the fear of God; and if this be a sin in him, it is a double sin in us to tempt him to it.
"Don't do that again," she says, with trembling lips. Her whole attitude voice and expression are undeniably childish, yet she frightens Gower nearly out of his wits. "I beg your pardon," he stammers, eagerly, growing quite white. "I must insist on your understanding I did not mean it. How could you think it? At this instant Roger laughs.
"Nothing would serve the gentleman but that he must make resistance, and he gave my man a blow with a stick; but I soon quieted him by giving him a wipe or two with a hanger. Not that, I believe, I have done his business neither; but the fellow is faint- hearted, and the surgeon, I fancy, frightens him more than he need.
And she could not understand all that Lily had said. What had she meant by the offer to release him? Had there, then, been some quarrel between them before he went? Crosbie had made no such allusion in his letter. But Mrs Dale did not dare to ask any questions. "You frighten me, Lily," she said. "Your very calmness frightens me."
It is what may happen to her that frightens me so." She took the two threatening letters from her handbag and gave them to the detective. "These came yesterday," she said, simply. Duvall took the letters, and proceeded to read them with the utmost care. When he looked up, his eyes were sparkling with interest.
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