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Quisanté speaks the truth or not!" He came up to her and held out his hand, smiling good-naturedly. She gave him hers with a laugh, for she liked him much and did not like Quisanté at all. "It's your own fault, that's why you're so exasperating," she half-whispered as she bade him good-bye.
'Shall I go and see about the room? half-whispered Violet. 'Yes, do; and he opened the door for her, exclaiming, almost before she was fairly gone, 'There! you want no more explanation. She is very lovely! said John, in a tone full of cordial admiration. 'Isn't she? continued Arthur, triumphantly.
It did not occur to any of the party that that strange summons from sleep, more effective than the half-whispered invitation of a valet-de-chambre, or the ringing of a breakfast-bell, had, in all probability, rescued them from a silent but certain death. They stood, as I have said, listening. There were several distinct sounds that saluted their ears.
He joins himself with the whole great company of those who have said this prayer in all the ages, and have found peace in it, and with that great sense of companionship the solitude of his own experience is banished, and he is compassed about with a cloud of witnesses, living and dead, as he bends alone, and in his half-whispered prayer begins to say: "Our Father." Galatians iii. 26; iv. 6.
Peter half-whispered. "Can't you feel that there is something?" She shrugged her shoulders, and then gave a little shiver. "Love, or what men take for love," she said. He clasped the hand that lay along his arm passionately. "Come along," he said. "Oh, this is good, Peter," said Julie a few minutes later.
"Don't you?" asked Peter, looking at her through half-closed eyes. "Why not, Inez?" Douglas, intrigued in spite of himself by this half-whispered conversation, glanced toward Inez. Instantly, Scott thrust the table against him and leaped toward the door. But Doug thrust out a spurred boot and the two young riders went down among the table legs.
I turned the knob slowly and made gentle pressure on the door, which presently began to open without a sound. As it opened I became aware of a low muttering, and caught distinctly the half-whispered words, 'Better try the pick first, Fred. "So there was more than one at any rate. "When the door was wide enough open to admit my head, I looked in.
He fairly leaped forward, and Betty, as she had a better glimpse of him, spoke: "It's The Loon! The one who saved our boat for us!" On their part, Betty and her chums, following the half-whispered announcement made by Betty, stared at The Loon almost as if he might be a ghost of the Florida forest.
"And he that lyeth there?" half-whispered the alarmed Ruth, pointing to a spot near them, where, aside from the movements of those who still acted in the bustle of the combat, one lay stretched on the earth "who hath fallen?"
The fear that you may not care for me has driven me nearly to distraction. It couldn't go on any longer. I must know to-day." There was a gleam in his eyes that made her pose of indifference difficult; the fervor of his half-whispered words took possession of her. She had expected sentiment of such a different character that his frank confession disarmed her completely.
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