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Then he came down to your father, and I know he had long and earnest conversations with him. I did all I could to listen, but the Colonel always had the windows and doors shut before he began to speak. I could see that your father was troubled. Then the Colonel died.
No doubt, nothing can be more provoking to listen to. But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous.
I was happy, and I had reason to believe that Betty was happy also. In the morning, we had just fallen asleep, when the vettuyino knocked at the door. I dressed myself hastily to see him. "Listen," I said, "it is absolutely necessary for me to recover my pocket-book, and I hope to find it at Acquapendente."
But when I once bowed myself to enter your house then only with a hope, where now I have the certainty of obtaining my heritage it was with the resolve to bury in oblivion every sentiment that would transgress the most temperate justice. Now, I will do more. If the law decide against me, we are as we were; if with me listen: I will leave you the lands of Beaufort, for your life and your son's.
She received us with cold indifference. She tried not to listen, when she heard what our errand was. And her indifference became hostility, when she understood. All her old hatred for what he was and meant, all her fundamental antagonism to the purpose of his life and to him came at last, openly, to the light. She was forced to reveal herself.
No, she couldn't do that, surely she wouldn't do that. That would be quite impossible through that snow. But she did not listen to her admirers' persuasions; she tore her fur cloak down from the peg and threw her shawl over her head. She felt that if they did not let her go she would burst into tears into loud, hopeless tears.
Under the circumstances in which Madame Schontz, Couture, and du Ronceret were placed, it is easy to imagine the effect produced upon the Heir by the following conversation which Maxime held with Couture in a corner and in a low voice, but so placed that Fabien could listen to them.
Urquhart never seemed to mind being ordered about by Lucy. And Lucy, of course, had accepted him as an intimate friend from the first, because Peter had said she was to, and because, as she remarked, he was so astonishingly nice to look at and to listen to.
The following that I shall recite was narrated there by the great Rishi Kasyapa. Listen with close attention to that excellent and charming account.
The silence was again broken by Plank: "Siward, you have asked me what I think. Now you must listen to the end. If you believed that through her her love, marrying her you stood the best chance in the world to win out, it would be cowardly to ask her to take the risk. As much as I care for you I had rather see you lose the fight than accept such a risk from her.
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