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Strong in surprise, involuntarily looking down at the stranger's threadbare clothes. "As you prefer. Oh, I am in disguise! I will make explanations as we walk along if you can give me a few moments of your time. I should like to interview you in regard to our late Brother Peter Greenfield's family."
Anxiety, nearly equal to that of his wife, had been an inmate of Mr. Hamilton's bosom as the Duchess's voice reached his ear; but as he glanced on Caroline, a frown gathered on his brow. He trembled involuntarily, for he felt assured it was imprudence, to give it the mildest term, in her conduct that called for this untimely visit, this strange return to her home.
It was difficult to distinguish objects at a distance, but, unless his eyes deceived him, Curlie saw some object, all white and ghostly, rising slowly from the hatchway leading to the forecastle. Cold perspiration sprang out upon his brow, his heart beat madly, his knees trembled as he involuntarily moved forward. That was the way he had of treating ghosts; he walked straight at them.
In a moment the young girl stood up, and made the prettiest and most graceful of courtesies as she raised to his a face he never forgot. Involuntarily he raised his cap again in homage to her youth, and her shy sweet beauty. "No; I thank you, sir, I have not far to carry the basket," she replied, in a voice sweet as the chiming of silver bells a voice that thrilled him, he could not tell why.
The waiter met his eye steadfastly. 'Anything that monsieur cared to order. The boy encountered the steadfast look, and a little gleam of humor shot into his eyes. 'Well, then, to begin with, should they say Sole Waleska? The waiter's glance wavered, he threw the weight of his body from one foot to the other. Involuntarily madame looked up.
As to my nose, I could absolutely see nothing of its shape; the firelight just caught the round tip, which shone like a little white toadstool from the gloom, and this was all. "'One can't see the shape, full face, I thought. 'If I had only another looking-glass. "But there was not another. I knew it, and yet involuntarily looked round the room. Suddenly I exclaimed aloud, 'Mr. Joseph will do!
"When I think what has been granted to us since I was here last!" she said to the priest as they moved on, clasping her hands, and flushing. "The dear Bishop took such trouble about it," he said in a little murmuring voice. "It was not easy but the Church loves to content her children." Involuntarily Laura glanced at Helbeck.
I entered, conscious of a strange feeling of hesitancy, pausing involuntarily as I heard the door close, and glancing hastily about. I had expected a scene of luxury, a counterpart of the outer cabin. Instead, I stood upon a plain, uncarpeted deck, the white walls and ceiling undecorated.
"I may have been a little abrupt," she said, in a low voice, "but I wasn't going to stand here and let our affair be broken off like that." At Mr. Tippengray's spontaneous exhibition of tender affection, Mr. Petter involuntarily and reverently took off his hat, while Mrs. Cristie and Lodloe clapped their hands.
The looks of fierce defiance with which they had received the embassy gave way to anxious and timid glances, which they hastily cast at the ominous snake-skin, while they involuntarily drew back, as if they feared it would explode, and punish their rash temerity. Rodolph saw the effect of Squanto's version of his speech, and resolved to increase it.
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