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The cook dropped her slate at her side and bent her head gravely in sign that she submitted. She motioned to Blanche to loosen Anne's dress, and then kneeling on one knee took Anne to support her while it was being done. The instant Hester Dethridge touched her, the swooning woman gave signs of life.
He dreamed strange, troubled dreams that melted away before he could seize on them, and finally he thought his sister stood before him and called. The impression was so vivid that he started up, staring at the empty room. For an instant he still thought he heard a voice, and then he knew it was the old clock striking the hour. It was ten o'clock.
"David Kildare," said Phoebe as she divined in an instant the whole situation, "I love I love you for doing it," and she sank on her knees by Caroline.
At that supreme instant, and under conditions so natural that the picture seems one of actual life, the sin of Vashti is revealed and the man who had adored her as an angel knows her for a cheat. With a difference of circumstances that situation in the fibre of it is not new. Many a lover, male and female, has learned that every idol has its flaw.
He knew that if he went down once, all rules of battle would be discarded; a powerful blow sent him staggering to the wall; he leaned against it an instant; waited, with the strong, impelling look people had noticed on his face when he was fighting in a different way, in the courts. The other came at him, muttering; the mill had unduly prolonged itself; he would end it.
She obeyed her father implicitly, however tyrannical he was, to the point where he bade her suppress and kill all the best that God had given her of mind and heart. Then she revolted; and she never for an instant doubted her entire justification in eluding or defying his authority.
At that instant, under her very eyes, a trout leaped in the nearby pool. "Impudence!" she cried. "I'll just get you, and then quit." But it was one pool too many; for at the second cast her hook caught in the rough bark of a log that projected far out into the stream. "Oh! Now I've done it!" she groaned.
I will, as I am a Berners! And now, begone, and never let me see your form again!" Rosa Blondelle, who had stood spell-bound by the terrible gaze and overwhelming words of Sybil, the wronged wife, now suddenly threw up her hands, and with a low cry, fled from the room. And Sybil dropped her arm and her voice at the same instant, and stood dumb and motionless.
He had already taken the last preliminary movement he had swung himself to the right side a little and, lightening his left foot, had thrown all his weight upon the right in fact, his body was literally suspended in the instant of springing, catlike, when the shadow which was Donnegan came to life.
That look happily she did not read; but we both saw the same object and in the same instant; we both stood amazed and appalled long enough to render our hesitation not only apparent, but striking to all around, many of whom, following the direction of my gaze, turned their eyes upon the Throne. What they saw or did not see I know not, and did not then care to think.
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