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Why, I I can't even hate myself, as I did a little while back, because I still care!" It was a habit that had grown out of her long loneliness those half-whispered conversations with herself. And now only one conviction remained. Again and again she told herself that she could not go to meet him that night could not go, even if he should call to her. And that, too, she put into whispered words.
The washing of the water past the steamer's sides caught away the rest of the half-whispered words. He remembered that host of many thousand heads that bowed in silence while a god swept by.... It was almost a shock to hear a voice replying close beside him: "Come to my cabin when you're ready. My windows open to the west. We can be alone together. We can have there what food we need.
"My own Adeline my sweetest night-bird," half-whispered Montreal, and softly approaching, he threw himself at his lady's feet "thy song is too sad for this golden eve." "No sound ever went to the heart," said Adrian, "whose arrow was not feathered by sadness. True sentiment, Montreal, is twin with melancholy, though not with gloom."
"I've I've always wondered about soda-water," she faltered, trying to smile. "But when I asked " "Um!" he grunted; then, with a sidewise jerk of the head, "Take a drink." She lifted eager eyes. "All I want to?" she half-whispered. He nodded. "Sip! Lap! Tipple!" "Oo!" Fairly beaming with delight, she knelt down. For the first time in her life she could have all the soda-water she wanted!
Annoyed by the clatter of the dishes and the half-whispered conversation of the domestics, Constans rose and walked to the dais end of the hall, where his mother and sister were seated, engaged in the agreeable occupation of inspecting the contents of a peddler's pack.
"Give her my dear love, and ask her to come to me," was my half-whispered answer; and as I went to bed that night Carrie's words rang in my ears like sweetest music "You and Ruth will be sisters." But it was Allan who was my first visitor.
A few minutes later he returned with a white face and staring eyes. "You come," he half-whispered, from the doorway. "Aye see somet'ing." "What is it?" questioned Marsh. "Aye don't know Aye only tenk come quick!" "Go ahead," said Marsh, "we'll follow," and with Nels leading the way they all climbed the stairs. Nels had turned on the electric lights in the halls.
She leaned forward, her face brightening. "You tole him to git away to-night?" she half-whispered, eagerly. "I thought you said you wuzn't a friend o' his'n." "That is what I said." "Then, whut did you warn him to git away fer?" He was thinking rapidly. "I did it on account of Miss Gwyn, Moll," he replied, evasively. "Do you think he'll go?" she asked, a fierce note of anxiety in her voice.
And when, at length, both voice and instrument were hushed into silence, no enthusiastic expressions of admiration were heard, but only half-whispered ejaculations of "exquisite!" "sweet!" "beautiful!"
'I am afraid it is silly, half-whispered Violet to herself; but the recollection was too pleasant not to be easily drawn out; and at her age the transition is short from shyness to confidence. 'Not at all silly, said John. 'You know I must wish to hear how I gained a sister.
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