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A half-repressed word, a moment's unexpected silence, even an easy fit of petulance on our account, will serve us as hashish for a long while.
How white they are, and what a queer noise they make," she responded seriously. Anna's eyes danced with delight as she heard Luretta's half-repressed giggle at Melvina's reply. She resolved that Luretta should realize of how little importance Melvina Lyon, with all her dolls, and her starched skirts like wheels, really was.
You know he's a great doctor now, and he has great skill, and there are so many needing him. And he's no time at all, even for himself, I expect. But" she would always finish her talk as they sat over the tea by saying, half to herself, really more to herself than to the little group, with a half-repressed longing sigh, "but, I wish, I just wish I could see my Laddie."
Then a reply came in a voice that he hardly recognized as Barney's; it was so fierce, and so full of half-repressed anger. "Yes, it air Barney, ef ye hev any call ter know." "How did ye git away, Barney? how did ye git away?" exclaimed Nick, with a joyous sense of relief. "A thief's word cl'ared me!" This bitter cry came up to Nick, sharp and distinct, through the dark stillness.
A well a it's of no use to disguise the fact you must know, Mr Clennam, that it does sometimes occur that people who come here desire to offer some little Testimonial to the Father of the place. To see her hand upon his arm in mute entreaty half-repressed, and her timid little shrinking figure turning away, was to see a sad, sad sight.
It is t'e same vit' man and voman; t'ey are animals. T'e ugly man or voman is veak, diseased or inferior. On t'e ot'er hand," I felt what was coming by the sudden oiling of his squeak "t'e goot man or voman, t'e goot human organism, mus' haf beauty. Not so?" Again he rubbed his hands. Helen glanced mischievously at me, as a half-repressed snort interrupted his dissertation.
The old man appeared as usual erect, and as frigidly respectable as one of the icicles that fringed the window, but Miss Ailsa was, to his astonishment, brilliant with a new-found color, and sparkling with health and only half-repressed animation.
The start, the half-repressed exclamation, and the momentary silence, showed that the captive had been taken completely by surprise. "I admit your superior dexterity," he at length said, speaking low and not without agitation. "I am your prisoner, Captain Ludlow; and I would now wish to know your intentions in disposing of my person." "That is soon answered.
"Yes," answered young Bawdrey, with a half-repressed shudder and a deeper clouding of his rather pale face. "Sometimes I try to make myself believe that it isn't, that it's all fancy, that she never could be so inhuman, and yet how else is it to be explained? You can't go behind the evidence; you can't make things different simply by saying that you will not believe."
Eleanor got cool again over the book; but she said little till, pausing before a small, black-looking print in a sheet full of rather coarse coloured caricatures, cuttings from illustrated papers and old-fashioned books, second-rate lithographs, and third-rate original sketches, fitted into a close patchwork, she gave a sort of half-repressed cry. "My dear! What is it?" cried Matilda effusively.
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