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"I do not know that I wish to change my life. I could, of course, be free, I suppose if I wanted to be but I am not sure. What would it mean if I listened to you? Tell me! I am sometimes very lonely and I like you so much." "I want to make you feel more than that, but I will be content with whatever you will give me.
She told him how she had waited, fidgeted, thought he was never coming, listened for the sound of doors, half expected to see him again under the lamp-post, looking at the house. They turned and looked at the serene front with its gold-rimmed windows, to him the shrine of so much adoration.
A pretty one, and you seem to be fond of playing with it," he added, with unaccustomed slyness. The lady listened, pleased at the sportive malice which showed that the constraint on his mind had left him. It was for women to fight their fight now; she only took part in it for amusement.
It was on those historic grounds that they arranged their armistice; but Recording Angels are more truthful than Archbishops or Prime Ministers; and the Recording Angel, having listened to their conversation, was led to set down upon his tables this notable memorandum that on no account were popular pageantry or trade interests to be disturbed during so golden an opportunity as the Silver Jubilee.
The other men from Jupiter had gone to their quarters. He could offer no suggestion, but listened carefully to every word they spoke. Finally he stood up. "I hope that you can forgive me. In the last three lixs I have regretted that I ever saw your earth. It were better that my people die, than for us to carry people from a happy planet to die in space because of our stupidity.
Antinous listened and what he heard seemed to be somewhat out of the common for he suddenly quitted the position in which the sculptor had placed him only a few minutes before, ran to the window and called to Pollux in a subdued voice: "It is true! I am not mistaken! There is Hadrian's wife Sabina talking out there to your mother."
Hastily Craig gave a whispered account of our strange visit from Miss Lowe, while Burke listened, open-mouthed. He had scarcely finished when he reached for the telephone and asked for long distance. "Is this the German embassy in Washington?" asked Craig a few moments later when he got his number. "This is Craig Kennedy, in New York.
He was known to be indifferent to criticism, and while he listened patiently to advice, he rarely took it. He had mortally offended the conservatives by the liberalism of his means, and the liberals by the conservatism of his ends.
The more trouble we make, the more important they will know us to be. If we hope to accomplish anything we must act cautiously." "But my airship!" cried Tom. "They won't do anything to that right away," declared the Russian in a whisper for he knew sometimes the police listened to the talk of prisoners.
But once Wade's limousine was speeding down the street the magnate fell strangely silent. He passed a cigar to McAllister and lighted one for himself. For fully five minutes he did not speak a word. He listened in a preoccupied way to the editor's opinion of the new city parks by-law and to that gentleman's surprise interrupted him finally by a statement entirely irrelevant.
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