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She persisted, in spite of opposition, in her gorgeous progresses from country-house to country-house. She clung to business as of old, and rated in her usual fashion "one who minded not to giving up some matter of account." But death crept on. Her face became haggard, and her frame shrank almost to a skeleton.
The haggard look had completely vanished from his face, the eyes were lighted up from within, the very soul of reckless daring and immortal gaiety illumined his whole personality. "Do not look so sad, little woman," he said with a strange and sudden recrudescence of power; "those d d murderers have not got me yet even now." Then he went down like a log.
Beaufort, asked a conference with that gentleman; and they went into the very parlour from which the rich man had once threatened to expel the haggard suppliant. Philip glanced round the room, and the whole scene came again before him. After a pause, he thus began, "Mr. Beaufort, let the Past be forgotten.
And he shivered and had feelings of a man bound on some tremendous and novel quest. As he came out of the hotel the wintry air met him and embraced him. He entered the station, dull and sinister in the night, with its haggard gas-lamps and arches yawning to the snow. There were few passengers, and they looked anxious. The train drew in. Maurice had his carriage to himself.
She took Eleanor's hand, and its hot tremor made her look keenly at the haggard face on the pillow. "Oh," Eleanor said, with a gasp of relief, "I'm so glad you're here! There are some things I want attended to. I owe I mean, somebody paid my car fare. And I must send it to her! And then I want something from my desk; but I can't have Bridget get it, and I don't want to ask Auntie to.
Come inside, Jim. Have you Elizabeth with you?" "Yes, I have Elizabeth with me." The three entered together. Ludlow shut the door and dropped an iron bar across it. The young men standing opposite were of nearly the same age; but one was fearless and free and the other harassed and haggard. Out-door labor and the skill of the fisheries had given to both depth of chest and clean, muscular limbs.
And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.
An' you come into the big 'all where there's the meat and the wine laid out, for funeral folk eats more than weddin' folk, bein' longer about it an' a bit solemner in gettin' of it down." Robin looked at her with strained, haggard eyes. "Priscilla," he said, huskily "Death is a horrible thing!"
"Is Flyaway in existence still?" she asked brightly, relieved that she might speak at last. "'Stowed away, as father says, in the barn, somewhere. Mr. Holmes is not as strict as he used to be, is he?" "No, he never was after that. I think he needed to give a lesson to himself." "He looks haggard and old." "I suppose he is old; I don't know how old he is, over forty." "That is antiquated.
Never have I laid eyes on Lucas since I left Monsieur's presence, till now when he came out of that door side by side with Grammont. Whatever the plot, I knew naught of it. I am a St. Quentin no parricide!" The ringing voice ceased and M. le Comte stood silent, with haggard eyes on Vigo. Had he been prisoner at the bar of judgment he could not have waited in greater anxiety.
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