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Lovel sank into his arm-chair with a faint groan, and looking at him in the full light of the lamp, Clarissa saw that he was deadly pale. "Do you know that the father of that man was my deadliest foe?" he exclaimed. "How should I know that, papa?" "How should you know it! no. But that you should choose that man for your secret lover!
The sound of a hoarse groan reached him suddenly an inarticulate cry of distress and he felt with a savage joy that it was from Fletcher. He looked down, drawing together his tattered sleeves. For a time he was silent, and when he spoke it was with a sneering laugh. "Well, I've been a fool, that's all," was what he said.
Coventry heard the man actually groan at the intelligence. "Let yourself down on my window-sill. I can find you rope enough for that." "What, d'ye take me for a bird, that can light of a gate?" "But the sill is solid stone, and full a foot wide." "Say ye so, lad? Then luck is o' my side. Send up rope."
"For every drop I'll take a hundred lives. By myself I swear it," Ayesha muttered with a groan. Then she cried in a ringing voice, "Back and to horse, for I have deeds to do this day. Nay, bide thou here, Holly; we go a shorter path while the army skirts the gorge. Oros, give him food and drink and bathe that hurt upon his head. It is but a bruise, for his hood and hair are thick."
Pete sat on the stool drinking in every word, with his eyes fixed full upon the face of the narrator. At times his huge frame trembled with emotion, and a groan escaped his lips. It was only when Mr. Radhurst had finished that he leaped to his feet and gave vent to his pent-up feelings. "Oh, God!" he cried, shaking his fist in the direction of the saloon.
"The Constitution terrifies by its length, complexity, frigidity, and above all by its novelty," he said to Jay and Madison, who met by appointment in his library. "Clinton, in this State, has persuaded his followers that it is so many iron hoops, in which they would groan and struggle for the rest of their lives.
When Frobisher recovered consciousness he became aware of most excruciating pains in his head and his left side, and so extreme was his suffering that he could scarcely restrain a groan. To add to his discomfort he was in complete darkness, and furthermore he was being jolted and shaken about in a most agonising manner.
All these circumstances had been duly weighed by our projector, who, having prepared Celinda for his purpose, stole at midnight from his apartment, which was in another storey, and approaching her door, there uttered a piteous groan; then softly retired to his bed, in full confidence of seeing next day the effect of this operation. Nor did his arrow miss the mark.
And if you'd like to see the cottage, sir " "You're very good," said Mr. Carter, with something like a groan. "No, I won't see the cottage to-night. What time was it when the fly stopped at your door?" "Between seven and eight." "Between seven and eight. Just in time to catch the mail from Rugby. Was it one of the Rose-and-Crown flies, d'ye think?" "Oh, yes, the fly belonged to Lisford.
"And now, my dears," observed Aunt Judy, stopping in her account, "this is of all others the exact moment at which you ought to show your sympathy with the sufferers, and groan." The little ones groaned accordingly, but in a very feeble manner. Aunt Judy shook her head. "That groan is not half hearty enough for such a misery. Don't you think, if you tried hard, you could groan a little louder?"
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