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"It is indeed delightful to meet you after all these years; it seems to bring back old times so vividly. And the years have dealt very gently with you, my dear friend. I should have known you anywhere." It was not quite certain to Aunt Charlotte whether she could truthfully have returned the compliment.

The two men stood by in silence. Their heads were bowed in reverence. They, too, felt something of the woman's grief. But presently Peter Blunt raised his head. His kindly blue eyes were full of sympathy. He moved across the intervening grass, and laid a hand with infinite tenderness upon the woman's shoulder. "We must take him with us," he said gently.

I started to my feet, stung into life by the agony of a new hope. Slowly the ice released her, and gently she rose to her feet. The torrents of water ceased they had flowed but to set her free. Her eyes were still closed, but she made one blind step towards me, and laid her left hand on my head, her right hand on my heart.

It was the prisoner's. "Yer wastin' time on us," said the leader, dryly; "wastin' HIS time. Hadn't you better talk to him?" Gideon rose to his feet, pale and cold. "He may have something to confess. May I speak with him alone?" he said gently. The leader motioned to the sentry to fall back.

He gave them sensible counsel, was pleased when they succeeded, and encouraged them when they failed, always provided that they had stuff enough in them to redeem the failure; if not, he gently dropped them from his intimacy, but maintained sufficiently familiar terms with them to be pretty sure that he could influence their votes whenever he so desired.

The result was that when his boon companions next met him there was no shadow of displeasure in him; he was in a peculiarly genial mood, and so continued. And when his friend returned he embraced him and gently upbraided him for having kept away for so long a time.

And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself.

His eyes were focussed just before his nose where the bowl of a pipe was beginning to glow. Carrington could hear the lips gently sucking, and then the aroma of tobacco came in a strong wave through the trees. Finally the match went out, and the glowing pipe began to move slowly along the turf, keeping close to the shelter of the trees.

Marion looked up slowly into her eyes, let a hand fall on her shoulder gently, and replied: "Lali, do you never wish Frank to come?" Lali's fingers came from the child, the colour mounted slowly to her forehead, and she drew the girl away again into the other room.

"I know not what to think, and do not press me for a judgment now. He shall be watched." Henry left his sister, and she sat for some moments in silence with the papers before her that Charles had sent her. "Yes," she then said, gently, "he loves me Charles loves me; I ought to be very, very happy. He loves me.