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While he was thus doing the cynical, nobody heeded him; quick and skillful fingers were undoing the parcel, and the ladies' cheeks flushed and their eyes glistened, and their fingers felt the stuff inside and out: in which occupation Raby left them, saying, "Full dress, mind! We Rabys are not beheaded every day." Mrs. Little undertook to cut both dresses, and Jael was to help sew them.
"Our horse has got a little bit in hand," replied the young man. "You're right, sir," answered the other. The gossip came and went about the pair. Neither heard nor indeed heeded it. The old man was easy, almost nonchalant; the young man quiet and self-contained. The horses drew up to the right, their backs to the Grand Stand, a long, swaying line of silken jackets shimmering in the sun.
He entered softly, and saw her seated very listlessly in the centre of the room, as if it had no familiar nook or corner as the rooms of home have, her hands drooping on her lap, and her eyes gazing desolately on the floor. Then he approached and spoke to her. Helen was very subdued, and very silent. Her tears seemed dried up; and it was long before she gave sign or token that she heeded him.
The panther sprang back into his tree, and the ox continued his quest. Soon his steps grew weaker, for the panther's cruel claws had gone deep into his neck, and his path was marked with blood. Yet the dream in his great wild eyes was not dimmed as his strength ebbed away. His weakness he never noticed or heeded.
Nancy, already, was her mainstay. The girl had apparently got under the burden, and held it secure on her firm, young shoulders. She developed initiative and the healing touch. No one disputed her where Doris was concerned, and Martin grimly accepted her as the most necessary thing in the hope that lay in Ridge House. Their appearance there was marked by two incidents that Doris alone heeded.
Why, don't you remember all the talk about Mrs. Finch? So little had Lady Elizabeth heeded scandal, that she had hardly known these stories, and had not identified them with the name of Gardner. Still she strove to think the best. 'Arthur will be able to tell me, she said; 'but every one seems fully satisfied of his reformation the curate of the parish and all.
This morning Fledra was not in her bedroom, and for awhile I thought she had not heeded our cautions, but had gone out for a walk. But Mr. Brimbecomb has just told me that Fledra went back with your father, and that, she had not been forced to go." "I don't believe it!" The boy's voice was sharp with agony. "Pappy Lon made her go ye can bet on that, Sister Ann!
While the British had been spending the first four months of 1745 in preparing 8,000 men, the French authorities in Louisbourg, whose force was less than 2,000, had been wasting the same precious time in ridiculous councils of war. It is a well-known saying that councils of war never fight. But these Louisbourg councils did not even prepare to fight. The news from Boston was not heeded.
One day they saw an old weak man approaching, 'with weather-beaten face and clothes of no particular cut. A chance for sport not to be neglected, they thought; and began to hustle him about in their usual fashion, 'slapping him on the back, and what not. But he Shang Ch'iu K'ai was his name seemed only full of joy and serenity, and heeded nothing.
During this interval he neither spoke, nor heeded those who were watching him; but undoubtedly suffered extreme mental agony. At one minute he would drop his chin on his bosom, and stand motionless; at another would press his brow to the wall of his cell, or wave his body from side to side, as if wrung with unutterable anguish.
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