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Neddie Benson, the first to move or break the silence, had spread his hands as if he were about to clutch at a butterfly or a beetle; dropping them to his side, he gasped huskily, "She said there'd be a light man and a dark man I oh, Lord!" It was the cook, as black as midnight and as inscrutable as a figurehead, who brought us to our senses.
Orton, huskily; "I'll be here in the morning. Come, little girls, go now." "We shall meet again, Amy; we shall meet again, Bertie, darling; remember papa said it and believed it." Haldane saw a strange blending of love and terror in Amy's eyes as she led her little and bewildered sister from the room. Dr. Orton took him one side and rapidly gave his directions.
The other, hesitating a moment, swallowed nervously in his agitation. "Yes," he said huskily, "I know but that's all right! . . . As I said before it can make little or no difference . . . in my case. . . ." Turning, Kilbride silently motioned to McSporran to unlock the cell-door.
"Everything's all right, Doris," he said, rather huskily. "Let's sit down here for a minute." "Teddy, you're ill!" He shook his head, and gave her the paper, saying, "Take care of it. I don't think Bullard will trouble you or Mr. Lancaster again, Doris." She read and began to tremble. With a sob she whispered, "Teddy, Teddy, is it true?" He did not answer. He had a queer sleepy, ghastly look.
Besides oh, besides do you think I could possibly go to him if I did not feel that nothing on earth matters now except our love?" She spoke with deep emotion. She was quivering from head to foot. He bent very low to kiss the hand upon his arm. "And you will have your reward," he said huskily. "Don't forget it's the only thing in life that really counts! There's nothing else nothing else."
There was no one in sight. He touched Burton's shoulder, and pointed down the street. "That's your way, Burton mine's the other. Hurry while you've got the chance. Good-night." Burton's hand reached out, caught Jimmie Dale's, and wrung it. "God bless you!" he said huskily. And Jimmie Dale pushed him out on to the street. Burton's steps receded down the sidewalk.
Moreover, he had set his face to this task before he had met her she would not be worthy of him if she asked him to abandon it now. "I must go" he said huskily. "The moon will be up by ten o'clock and I can make better time traveling by moonlight than I can after sun-up." She clung to him for one breathless second; then, with a final caress she sent him forth to battle for his Pagans.
I wept, but, as I wept, I said, 'It is hell for Gregorio too. But when I looked from the window this afternoon I knew it was not hell for you. I knew you did not care what became of me. It was pleasant for you to send me away to make money while you drank and kissed at the Penny-farthing Shop. I came suddenly to know that the man had spoken truth." "What man?" asked Gregorio, huskily. "The man!
The king pointed a quivering finger at the mirror, and said huskily: "Let not the sun go down! Let its light be white as at noon." "But, father, it has never been done before; it " "Alpha has never faced such danger. All our dream is about to end. Go!"
"I don't care if they have," the handsome lover cried huskily, clasping Honor's hands passionately, and looking into her face with a sort of hopeless defiance, "I have a word to say, that has been long enough hanging unsaid upon my lips hear me now you must Honor I love you and I want you to become my wife."
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