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It was the sudden leap of troubled excitement stirred in him by that interview heightened by the sight of Raeburn that had driven him past recall by the most natural of transitions, into his declaration to Marcella. But he had no sooner reached his room than, at first with iron will, he put the thought of Marcella, of the scene which had just passed, away from him. His pulses were still quivering.
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Why the devil shouldn't I? And he marched along unconscious of his utterances or of the heightened colour and the look of momentary surprise in Lilian's face. 'Pretty girl, too, said the doctor, in audible thought. 'Devilish pretty! Good girl, I should fancy. Like the looks of her. Hard lines, poor thing hard lines! They reached the bank and walked across the punt into the house-boat.
Agathe believed that the purely physical resemblance which Philippe bore to her carried with it a moral likeness; and she confidently expected him to show at a future day her own delicacy of feeling, heightened by the vigor of manhood.
"Why, Mary faith for a very good reason, my dear child; because I don't wish to see your sister annoyed and persecuted by the scoundrel. The fellow is so impudent that he will take no rebuff." "By the way, father, where does M'Carthy stop, now that he is in the country?" asked Alick, with some hesitation, and a brow a little heightened in color.
She said, with heightened colour: "I am dreadfully sorry and bitterly ashamed. I deserve no mercy, no consideration at your hands. But I must return your ring " She slipped it from her finger, laid it on the table, placed the chain and locket beside it. She said, wistfully: "I dare not hope to retain your esteem I dare not say to you how much I really desire your forgiveness your friendship "
It was this meeting which had cut short Mrs Rowland's whispers with Mr Walcot, and brought her down the aisle in all her stateliness, with her train of children behind her. When Hester went home, she thought it right to tell Margaret exactly what had happened. "I knew it?" was all that Margaret said; but her heightened colour during the day told what unspeakable things were in her heart.
His fears of a distraint for rent were greatly heightened in consequence of the increased illness of his family, and as the only way to prevent it that had occurred to his mind, was to obtain from his employers a loan of fifty dollars as just mentioned, he had fully made up his mind to waive all feeling and at once name his request. Two hours we have said had expired since he went home to dine.
Thou couldst not have soothed; it would have been but wringing thy too kind heart, and exposing her to other and heightened evils." The princess looked up inquiringly.
The recent lava flow by which Halemaumau has considerably heightened its walls, has raised the hill by which you ascend to the brink of the pit to a height of fully five hundred feet from the basin, and this elevation is at present much more fiery and precarious than the former one.
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