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"Yes, you are going very soon to God. He will watch over baby, and give him back to you again some day quite safe." "Will He?" The tone was submissive, half-inquiring; like that of a child learning something it had never learned before as Selina was now learning.
He changed countenance, and came forward hastily, conscious of the strange contrast she presented to those women, flushed with wine and horrid excitement, gambling at the table, as she stood there, rooted to the spot with surprise, in her gold-embroidered, ivory-white draperies, with a half-inquiring, half-bewildered look on her sweet grave face.
He held his gun in his right hand, the stock resting on the ground, while he looked with a half-inquiring expression, as if doubting the identity of the young Kentuckian who had come such a distance to help restore him to his friends.
Morgan's reference, in his Bunker Hill position, to Franklin, that he is getting out of powder." The girl stood a moment, her slight figure framed in the doorway, while the company rose to greet her, with a half-hesitating, half-inquiring look in her bright face which I had seen in it a thousand times.
There is nothing so very horrible about it for you. Now, if you had had the actual work to do 'Then it is true! You really have brought him back to life again? That was him I saw lying on the bed? He looked up at Djama as he spoke with a half-inquiring, half-frightened glance.
Hearing footsteps approaching, I rose from my kneeling posture and stood erect with folded arms, looking tearlessly down on the stiffening clay before me. The rest of the party came up; no one spoke for a minute, all surveyed the dead body in silence. At last Captain Freccia said, softly in half-inquiring accents: "He is gone, I suppose?" I bowed. I could not trust myself to speak.
I have half a mind to marry her. What think you? shall I say the word?" Denys in reply merely open his eyes wide with amazement. The landlord turned to Gerard with a half-inquiring look, "Nay, sir," said Gerard; "I am too young to advise my seniors and betters." "No matter. Let us hear your thought."
He smiled condescendingly as he met Theos's half-surprised, half-inquiring look, and saluted him with a gravely pompous air, which however, was not without a saving touch of that indescribable, easy grace which seemed to distinguish the manners of all the inhabitants of Al-Kyris.
"But you will be with us a part of every day?" returned Violet, with a wistful half-inquiring look up into his face.
The sick girl was not asleep she lay with her eyes wide open, staring vacantly at the white wall. She looked at them, when they entered, with a half-frightened, half-inquiring gaze. "Are you better, Agnes?" asked Rose, looking down at the colourless face. "Oh, yes!" She answered nervously, her fingers twisting in and out of her bed-clothes her eyes wandering uneasily from one to the other.
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