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At the sound of my name, the stranger gave a sudden start and gazed steadily at me, his eyebrows raised in the extraordinary manner that I have described, something like the festoon of a curtain, and a smile playing on his face as if expecting a joke and ready to enter into it, and enjoy it. All this I observed out of the corner of my eye, without appearing to regard him or notice his scrutiny.
She looked, and fought herself, and bit her quivering lip until she tasted blood. Then she rode out into the open. The whole west side of the canyon had been cleared and cultivated and plowed. But she gazed no farther. She did not want to see the spot where she had given Glenn his ring and had parted from him. She rode on.
The ancient battle of titanic forces, which had brought into existence that world of stupendous might upon which her unseeing eyes gazed, was as nothing, it seemed, to the passionate struggle going on in her torn heart. To her there was nothing beyond her own regretful misery, her own dread of the future, her passionate revulsion at thoughts of the past.
No light came from the windows and the fire had gone out as completely as if water had been poured upon it. He gazed into a sheet of impenetrable darkness that came close up to his face like a wall. His first thought was for the papers in his coat and his hand flew to the pocket. They were safe; and the relief caused by this discovery left his mind instantly free for other reflections.
And looking at the cross again, he saw, extended there, a bleeding figure with a compassionate face that gazed down upon him and declared, "I am Jesus Christ, son of the only God. Those whom you see in the ships are my people, who have come to these islands to rule you for your good." Amambar fell prone on the sand and prayed for a long time, not daring to open his eyes.
The other man, seeing his start and his amazed, troubled flush, put out a hand and touched his arm apologetically. "I beg your pardon," he said. "One of the things I was going to tell you I had not finished was that I AM what is called a gentleman. I am also what the world knows as a rich man. I am Sir Oliver Holt." Each member of the party gazed at him aghast. It was an enormous name to claim.
During this harangue, Cranfield gazed fixedly at the speaker, as if he beheld something mysterious and unearthly in his pompous little figure, and as if the Squire had worn the flowing robes of an ancient sage, instead of a square-skirted coat, flapped waistcoat, velvet breeches, and silk stockings.
She drew Diana toward her, kissed her, and smiled at her. But the smile wrung Diana's heart. "Why have you been so ill? and I never knew!" She wrapped a shawl round her friend, and, holding her hands, gazed into her face. "It was all so hurried there was so little time to think or remember. But now there is time." "Now you are going to rest? and get well?" Marion smiled again.
With a hard effort, he loosed the mouth and turned the big upside down. Out fell on the fold of a blanket a mass of golden nuggets of the purest quality. There were not less than fifty, of large size, and they gleamed dull yellow in the rays of the fire. The sight almost took our breath, and we gazed with greedy, wondering eyes. "Look! I spoke the truth," said Hiram Buckhorn.
And what do you think of it?" "I? I think that it is too late for you to find lodgings down in Weimar." "Oh," he said, "I'm not a princess. I'd have crept into any hole that offered me shelter." She gazed at him in silence, and blushed a rosy red. There was something of merry mockery in the glance that he fixed on her. "Ah ... women ... women!" he said lightly.
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