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A large, gloved hand appeared against the small moon and it set ignominiously and prematurely, in the place where it had risen. Sir Redmond further extinguished it with the lap robe, for the storm, whooping malicious joy, was upon them. First a blinding glare and a deafening crash. Then rain sheets of it, that drenched where it struck.

"Yes," said Auntie Nan eagerly, "and it was partly that " "Indeed!" said the Ballawhaine, raising his eyebrows. "I calculate that his course in London will cost me, one thing with another, more than a thousand pounds." Auntie Nan lifted her gloved hands in amazement. "That sum I am prepared to spend in order that my son, as an English barrister, may have a better chance "

He stretched out his hand, gloved in purple, on which shone the episcopal emerald ring, with such an imperious gesture that one after another of the canons found themselves forced to kiss it. It was the submission of churchmen, accustomed from their seminary to an apparent humility which covered rancours and hatreds of an intensity unknown in ordinary life.

"I'm coming!" responded Ruth Fielding and, beaten as she was by the gale behind, kept steadily on. The way began to rise before her. She was ascending the other bank of the gully. Suddenly through the snow-wreath that surrounded her she saw something waving. She sprang forward with renewed courage, crying again: "I'm coming!" The next moment she seized somebody's gloved hand.

'If that be the case we come back to the law of the Beast, said the Counsellor. The Russian put his gloved hand upon the open door and looked back over his shoulder at Counsellor. 'Always, my dear friend, by very many turnings but always. It was a day that would be dark an hour before its time.

At seven o'clock that evening he called a cab and drove away to the Opera, curled like a Saint John of a Procession Day, elegantly waistcoated and gloved, but feeling a little awkward in this kind of sheath in which he found himself for the first time. In obedience to Mme. de Bargeton's instructions, he asked for the box reserved for the First Gentleman of the Bedchamber.

There were a number of people about the table, eating, drinking, talking; and the couple on the sofa, which was not near it but against the wall, in a shallow recess, looked a little withdrawn, as if they had sought seclusion and were disposed to profit by the diverted attention of the others. The President leaned back; his gloved hands, resting on either knee, made large white spots.

"Impossible," said Pauline, shading her eyes with her hand to sharpen her vision. "It cannot be." "What?" queried Roderick. "I thought perhaps...." "But it is, Pauline." "You don't mean it?" "It is no other." "Cary Singleton!" Forgetful of everything, in her transport, she applauded with her gloved hands. Roderick took off his cap and saluted.

But as for my mystifying Bewley acquaintance I confess I cannot make head or tail of him. 'Was he, said Lawford rather vaguely, looking up into the dim white face that with its plumes filled nearly the whole carriage window, 'was his face very unpleasing? She raised a gloved hand. 'It has haunted me, haunted me, Mr Lawford; its its conflict!

"My dear little girl," replied Slattin, rising and standing looking down at her, with his gold tooth twinkling in the lamplight, "there will be a whole division, if a whole division is necessary." He sought to take her white gloved hand, which rested upon the chair arm; but she evaded the attempt with seeming artlessness, and stood up. Slattin fixed his bold gaze upon her.