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I have here," she exclaims with some vehemence, laying the hand in which she still holds the drooping lily upon her breast, "what I would gladly be without a heart." "Nay," says Adrian hastily; "you forget. It is no longer yours, you have given it away." For an instant she glances at him keenly, while her breath comes and goes with painful quickness.
Bowring from time to time with an expression of uncertainty which sat strangely on his determined features, and whenever any new subject was broached he watched her uneasily until she had spoken. But Mrs. Bowring rarely returned his glances, and her eyes never lingered on his face even when she was speaking to him. Clare, for her part, joined in the conversation, and wondered and waited.
He looked first to Kataya, whose expression in return was almost angry, then to McIntyre, who nodded gently. Sylviana would not even look at him. Then seating himself like an ancient storyteller, he bade Kalus and Sylviana to sit at his feet. To this only Kalus consented, the two women still exchanging poison glances.
The ex-Chancellor took the dice-box in his hand, and was about to shake, when there came suddenly upon them three stout raps against the door, given apparently with the hilt of a sword. Many not already standing, started to their feet, and nearly all looked one upon another with deep dismay in their glances.
Candace fixed him with another of her inquisitive little glances: "I've some bit papers put by that I thought ye might like to see," she said with a cautious air. "I've kept them fer long because I thought they might be wanted sometime, yet I've never dared bring them to your notice before lest I would be considered meddlin', and indeed I wasn't sure but you had them already.
She spoke hurriedly, and kept looking over her shoulder now and then, as if afraid of being seen talking to me. 'I have had a good deal to make me older since we met last, Miss Pease, I said. 'I have hardly a friend left in the world but you that is, if you will allow me to call you one. 'Certainly, certainly, she answered, but hurriedly, and with one of those uneasy glances.
The young girl's eyes were red; her face was very pale. The General's face was scarlet. He advanced a few steps, like an actor about to address his audience; cast fierce glances on all sides of him, and cleared his throat with a sound that echoed like the bass notes of a grand piano.
Some of them gave him glances that seemed to say, "You belong to us," and almost succeeded in establishing the delusion. The whole effect upon Hodder, in the state of mind in which he found himself, was reacting, stimulating, disquieting. At luncheons and dinners, he was what is known as a "success" always that magic word. He resisted, and none so quick as women to scent resistance.
"Probably not. It is doubtful whether he could find another rostrum of equal influence. And his influence is mainly for good. But since you seem to be interested in newspapers, Io" he gave her another of his keen glances "from The Patriot you can make a diagnosis of the disease from which modern journalism is suffering. A deep-seated, pervasive insincerity.
She had grown accustomed to the piercing rays of the sun, but not to the questioning glances from strange eyes. "What what does this mean, Ludwig?" she stammered, in bewilderment. "I don't understand you." Count Vavel stepped to the opposite side of the room, where a large map concealed the wall.
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