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"There may be much; that is why I am disturbed. You and I don't count, mother; we are expected to submit. It isn't that I don't like Alan; I shrink from him. He is cunning and knows how to wait. Sometimes his patience frightens me." "But why should his patience frighten you?" "Oh!" said Grace, "can't you understand? You know father's habits and that Gerald is following him.

"Please ride on, father," said Lucina; her voice sounded like a little silver flute through the Squire's bass whoas. "And leave you? I guess not. Whoa, Dick; whoa, can't ye!" "Please, father, Dick frightens me when he does so." "Can't you ride a little faster, Pretty? Whoa, I tell ye!" "In just a minute, father, I'll catch up with you. Oh, father, please!

"He worked himself really sick last night just from pure nervousness. I had to put camphorated oil on his throat and chest, and lie beside him until morning. He is sleeping quietly now, but it simply frightens me to death when one of them complains of sore throat." "You've spoiled him, that's what's the matter," replied Oliver, yawning.

Until you hear from us, no more visitors for the children. By the way, is that matter the one we talked over last month definitely settled?" "Yes. I can't help being worried by the inclination she displays. It frightens me in such a child." "Scott doesn't show it?" "No. He hates anything like that." "Do the servants thoroughly understand your orders?" "I'm a little troubled.

The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance. But that contradiction in the lamp more and more appals him. The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry.

I know he says that to please me. And mamma," she added, drawing Madame Valmonde's head down to her, and speaking in a whisper, "he hasn't punished one of them not one of them since baby is born. Even Negrillon, who pretended to have burnt his leg that he might rest from work he only laughed, and said Negrillon was a great scamp. Oh, mamma, I'm so happy; it frightens me."

Yet," she mused, "I don't see what else he could have done. . . . Well, thank the Lord! he'll be humble now, which the others were and he wasn't." "He's young, anyway," urged Dinah. "That's something," her mistress conceded. "It gives the more time to rub in his foolishness, and he'll never hear the last of it." "Three hundred pounds, too!" ejaculated Dinah. "The very sound of it frightens me.

Madame de Boufflers is at l'Isle Adam, whither my Lady Hertford is gone to-night to sup, for the first time, being no longer chained down to the incivility of an ambassadress. She returns after supper; an irregularity that frightens me, who have not yet got rid of all my barbarisms. There is one, alas!

Like you, I sense a loneliness, a reaching out from Timmy for something I can't give him no matter what I do, no matter how I try to understand. I watch him, and I think of that line ... a stranger and afraid ... What is there that frightens him? Can it ... possibly ... be us?" Indian summer now lay softly upon the land.

If that frightens him, he will make the governor drop all this rubbish." Had his mind not been so much occupied, this rhodomontade on Gaston's part would have amused Andre very much, but now he asked himself what would be the quickest way to escape from him. Just at this moment a servant emerged from the house.