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"Good Lord! The man's fainted!" exclaimed Badger. In a moment he was down on his hands and knees, trembling with excitement, groping under the table. He dragged the unconscious lawyer out into the light and knelt over him, staring into his face. "What's the matter with him, Doctor?" he asked, looking up at Thorndyke. "Is it apoplexy? Or is it a heart attack, think you?"
"Because all my solicitude was for you, and how it might disgrace you." "I could have knelt there at your ragged feet, in sight of all the fort!" "Could you truly, Euan?" "As willingly as I kneel at prayer!" "How dear and gallant and sweet you are to me " She broke off in dismay. "Ai-me!
He leapt from the camel and knelt beside Elisa. She was not yet dead, for her eyes were open and her lips stirred. "I have kept faith, keep it also, Aziel! the story is not yet done," she gasped. Then her life flickered out, and her spirit passed. Aziel rose from beside the corpse and looked upward.
Horace knelt beside his mother's couch and folded her hands in his own. "I will believe you, mother," he said, earnestly. "Trust me tell me all. If this woman whom my brother has married be an impostor, he may yet be freed from the matrimonial chain." "Could that be possible?" "It may be. Let me try, at least. I will devote myself to your service if you will but confide in me."
He knelt motionless at last, beside the stream, singularly unperturbed, despite the importance of his find. Briggs had slipped up, absolutely, on the biggest thing in many miles around, by salting and selling a quartz claim here to a man with a modest sum of money. The cove was a placer claim, rich as mud in gold, and with everything needed at hand.
She went to the poor mother, and putting her hand soothingly on her head knelt by her with gentle and loving words. The half-crazed woman listened with averted face, then suddenly burst into tears and hid her throbbing head in the other's lap.
I knelt down quietly beside my fire, slipping on a great roll of birch bark which blazed up brightly, filling the woods with light.
Gunther, when he reached the spring, stooped over, and drank heartily of the cool, refreshing water; and, after he had risen, Siegfried knelt upon the grass at the edge of the pool to quaff from the same gushing fountain.
So they came through the garth-gate and I greeted them and asked them what they would; then the old man knelt down on the grass before me and said: 'If I were as young as I am old my heart would fail me in beholding thy beauty: but now I will ask thee somewhat: far away beyond the forest we heard rumours of a woman dwelling in the uttermost desert, who had drunk of the Well at the World's End, and was wise beyond measure.
"He expected to find you." "Of course he did. Had he anything particular to say!" "Yes, mamma." "He had? What was it, my dear?" "I was very much surprised, mamma, but I couldn't help it. He asked me " "Asked you what, Mary?" "Oh, mamma!" Here she knelt down and hid her face in her mother's lap. "Oh, my dear, this is very bad; very bad indeed." "It needn't be bad for you, mamma; or for papa."
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