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"Oh, Nick, I love thee," said the master-player, holding the boy's hands with a bitter grip. "Dost thou not love me just a little? Come, lad, say that thou lovest me." And, sir, if thy being out would keep me stolen, still I think I'd wish thee out for Cicely. But, Master Carew, do na break my hands." The master-player loosed his grasp. "I will not seek to be excused to thee," he said huskily.
Then the old man spoke, in a curiously suppressed tone of voice. "Very well," he said, huskily; "it is what was bound to come sooner or later. I see I have made another of the mistakes which have blasted my existence. I must have time to think out what I shall do. One thing is very evident you have rebelled against my rule, Aleck, and are struggling to get away to think and act, sir, for yourself.
Then I turned to my father, and, with the obtrusive lump in my throat by this time grown so inconveniently large that I could scarcely articulate, held out my hand to him. "Good-bye, father!" I stammered out huskily. "Good-bye, Dick, my son, my own dear boy!" he returned, not less affected than myself. "Good-bye!
She slowly drew her fingers over her face, her eyes wide in wonder. "It's a queer thing, birth...." Ellen tingled with shame because such things were spoken of aloud, by someone old. But Richard muttered huskily: "I wonder what the story is...." "Something horrible. She's come from a good home. Her teeth were well looked after when she was a girl.
She ran toward him. "Mr. Kinney!" "No, you don't! no, you don't!" "Why, don't you know me? Mrs. Hubbard?" "He he told me you was dead!" roared Kinney. "He told you I was dead?" "More'n a year ago! The last time I seen him! Before I went out to Leadville!" "He told you I was dead," repeated Marcia huskily. "He must have wished it!" she whispered. "Oh, mercy, mercy, mercy!"
"Well, anyhow, you ought to warn Jude," repeated Douglas. "I can't!" said Mary. "Doug, if I do she'd guess how cowardly I am and how I suffer in my mind, I mean," and she put her hands over her face with a dry sob. Douglas put his long young arm about her. "I'll take care of it for you," he said huskily. "Judith don't know it but she's got somebody besides old Peter ridin' herd on her now.
"To Terrace Hill into the Richards family; this was no chance arrangement?" and the convict spoke huskily, asking next for the doctor; and still Hugh did not suspect the magnitude of the plot, and answered by telling how Dr. Richards was coming soon to make 'Lina his wife.
Gwyn left the hut but soon returned. After a few earnest words with the sheriff, she came slowly over to the girl. Moll shrank back against the wall, a strange glitter leaping into her sullen, lifeless eyes. "I don't want nobody prayin' over me," she said huskily. "I jest want to be let alone." "I am not going to pray over you, my girl.
He gave a low cry and turned back towards Sinnet, who lay in a pool of blood. Sinnet was speaking. He went and stooped over him. "Em'ly threw me over for Clint," the voice said huskily, "and I followed to have it out with Clint. So did Greevy, but Greevy was drunk. I saw them meet. I was hid. I saw that Clint would kill Greevy, and I fired.
Barnes went forward to meet her, filled with a sudden apprehension. "What is it? You are pale and what have you heard?" She stopped and looked searchingly into his eyes. A warm flush rose to her cheeks; her own eyes grew soft and tender and wistful. "They all believe that the war will last two or three years longer," she said huskily. "I cannot go back to my own country till it is all over.
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