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The hood was thrown back, and Prince saw the shining black hair and black, audacious eyes of Kate Van Corlear. "Don't ask any questions. I'm the doctor, and there's my prescription," and she pointed to the half-frightened, half-sobbing Carry in the corner "to be taken at once." "Then Mrs. Tretherick has given her permission?"
Someone was in a chair there, or was she dreaming! And suddenly, without knowing why, she began breathing hurriedly in little half-sobbing gasps. The figure moved, turned her face in the firelight. Betty! Gyp closed her eyes. An icy sweat had broken out all over her. A dream! In a whisper, she said: "Betty!" The muffled answer came. "Yes, my darlin'." "What is it?"
"Oh, my darling, my darling!" she wailed, half-sobbing in the strength of her emotion. "You must not go from me again, Andrew. I am your wife, and you have no right to flirt with other women!" Seizing her hands, he tore them loose and flung her violently aside. "This is enough of this foolishness," he declared, angrily. "I want you to remain here in seclusion and behave yourself.
Presently the dear girl appeared, with tearful eyes and flushed face, and advancing hurriedly to the father, she stood before him with downcast eyes. "My daughter, tell me how and why you did this?" he demanded, pointing to the open volume. "Oh, father, look at this," she returned, half-sobbing, and touching the lower end of the colored margin with her finger. "Do you see how badly it is colored?
It was then that Kent threw out of him a great, deep breath and laughed joyously and exultantly. "Are you wet, little Gray Goose?" "Only outside, Big Otter. My feathers have kept me dry." Her voice had a trembling, half-sobbing, half-rejoicing note in it. It was not the voice of one who had recently killed a man. In it was a pathos which Kent knew she was trying to hide behind brave words.
The butterfly-wing flutter of her lashes against his cheek as she pressed the softness of her own closer, and the quick exquisite indrawing of her tender, half-sobbing childish breath were unspeakably lovely answering things though he heard her whisper. "Yes, Donal! Donal!" And again, "Donal! Donal!" And he held her closer and kissed her very gently again.
He laughed on a high, fierce note. "You have spoke his sentence, girl! D'ye think I'd take you so at second hand? Oh, s'death! What d'ye deem me?" He laughed again in his throat now, a quivering; half-sobbing laugh of anger and crossed to the door, her eyes following him, terrified; her mind understanding nothing of this savage. He turned the key, and flung wide the door with a violent gesture.
She stood clutching her hands in the half-sobbing ecstasy which signalises a spiritual exaltation built on disquiet. She had shown small emotion hitherto. The sight of it was like the sight of a mighty hostile power to Lady Charlotte a power that moved her that challenged, and irritated, and subdued her.
On the worn carpet in the chancel the sunshine lay in patches of red and blue and purple, that flickered noiselessly when the wind moved the maple leaves outside; it was all so quiet that Helena could hear her own half-sobbing breaths.
"I am a Knight of the most Illustrious Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and an Italian Cavalier of Degree. You " "I am a Spy," I cried out half-sobbing. "What was I to do? My Malignant Fate hath ever been against me. I am despicable in your Eyes, but not so despicable as I am in mine own." "There, there," he cries out, very placably.
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