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Late as the hour was, he went at once to Riddell's study. Riddell was half-undressed as his visitor entered. "What do you want?" he inquired. "I want you! Do you mean to say you've reported me to the doctor?" "Of course. It was a fight. I'm bound to report it." "Bound to report it. You snivelling humbug! Have you sent the name up yet?"
It was some minutes before a cessation took place; but when it did, I knocked loudly, and had not long to wait; for, a moment after, the door was partly opened by a noble-looking youth, half-undressed, glowing with heat, and begrimed with the blackness of the forge. In one hand he held a sword, so lately from the furnace that it yet shone with a dull fire.
Then the latter fell upon their knees, with arms extended, and began to pray, their faces illumined, transfigured by their burning desire to see God's omnipotence displayed. "Lord, hear us! Lord, grant our prayer!" M. Sabathier had just been taken away, and the only patient now present was little Gustave, who had remained on a chair, half-undressed and forgotten.
Alas! how differently had she trodden those floors in days gone by! The Knight had now dismissed his train; half-undressed, and in a dejected mood, he was standing near a large mirror, by the light of a dim taper. He heard the door tapped by a soft, soft touch. It was thus Undine had been wont to knock, when she meant to steal upon him playfully. "It is all fancy!" thought he.
She went back to her own room, and tried to prepare herself for bed, but who could sleep sleep! distracted by such terrors? They came upon her more and more strongly yet. Half-undressed, and with her hair in wild disorder, she flew to the old man's bedside, and roused him from his sleep. "What's this?" he cried, starting up in bed, and fixing his eyes upon her spectral face.
His eyes danced; in the crimson of his face, comical as a mask, the mouth yawned black, with strange grimaces. Facing him, a half-undressed man held his sides, and, throwing his head back, laughed with wet eyelashes. Others stared with amazed eyes.
"Horror upon horrors! the half-undressed man in my chamber was Captain Le Noir! I saw and swooned away!" "But you were saved! you were saved!" gasped Herbert, white with emotion. "Oh, I was saved, but not from sorrow not from shame! I awoke from that deadly swoon to find myself alone, deserted, cast away!
At a window of the Hotel of the Golden Cross, on the opposite side of the square, he caught a glimpse of General Bourgain-Desfeuilles, already half-undressed and on the point of tasting the luxury of clean white sheets. Why should he be more self-denying than the rest of them? he asked himself; why should he suffer longer?
But at this moment Carry was sitting on the edge of her bed, half-undressed, pouting her pretty lips and twisting her long, leonine locks between her fingers as Miss Kate Van Corlear dramatically wrapped in a long white counterpane, her black eyes sparkling, and her thoroughbred nose thrown high in air stood over her like a wrathful and indignant ghost; for Carry had that evening imparted her woes and her history to Miss Kate, and that young lady had "proved herself no friend" by falling into a state of fiery indignation over Carry's "ingratitude," and openly and shamelessly espousing the claims of Mrs.
Instead of protesting, she reached down and began unfastening the buttons on her dress. "'Syour turn now, Willy. Put you to bed last night, you put me to bed t'-night. Then you gotta kiss me good-night. Nighty-night, nighty-night." He felt like a heel at first. And then he began to feel like a man any man around a beautiful girl half-undressed, and getting more so.
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