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I listened too. Oddly enough, at that instant the droning of an insect did become audible. 'It's only a bee, child, which has found its way through the open window. 'I wish it were only a bee, I wish it were. Sydney, don't you feel as if you were in the presence of evil? Don't you want to get away from it, back into the presence of God? 'Marjorie! 'Pray, Sydney, pray! I can't!
Before we could gather our wits he began to speak to us, and we listened as in the old days when at least a squadron of us had loved him to the very death. A very unexpected word was the first he used. "Simpletons!" said he. Sahib, our jaws dropped. Simpletons was the last thing we had thought ourselves.
And are you bringing home the grand Degree?" though they all listened eagerly for the reply, they wished she had held her tongue. "The divil a Degree, ma'am," said Mr. Polymathers, "and niver will."
Now that your destiny is drawing near, I warn you." "Thank you, I will be careful. In former times I should not have listened to such a warning, but now that I love Sappho, I feel as if my life were not so much my own to do what I like with, as it used to be." "I understand this feeling . . ." "You understand it? Then Araspes was right? You don't deny?"
She listened quietly to his passionate outburst. She was deadly pale, and she pressed Charlie close against her bosom, the little dog, she thought half vaguely, would love her just as well whether she was rich or poor. "How can the world take me, Angus?" she said "Am I not yours? all yours! and what has the world to do with me? Do not speak in such a strange way you hurt me "
But first she listened to Juanita's feet brushing through the grass to get to the well; and Daisy listened so hard, she could almost tell after a while whether the grass was dry or whether it was heavy with dew. Juanita always carried the kettle to the well; and when she came back, Daisy could hear the iron clink of the stove as the kettle was put on.
Virginia, who had listened in growing anger and astonishment, unable longer to refrain from defending the dignity of her usually autocratic father, although he seemed little disposed to defend himself, now intervened from her dark corner on the divan. "Is the journey then so long, sir," she asked composedly, "that it at once inspires such anticipations and such bitterness?"
She had never heard the name Adelpha Leisler before, and yet she intuitively felt that the name had some terrible bearing on her destiny. With loud beating heart, lips parted and her whole being expressing pain, she crouched close to the door and listened.
The King, who had seen the vanity of his hot words the moment that he had uttered them, listened to the old man, and resolved to bide his time, if perchance some day Robin should fall into his power.
It was curious, he thought, for these isolated families always had plenty of dogs and no "breed" or "Injun" outfit ever kept fewer than six. There were no shrill voices of children at play, no sound of an axe or a saw or a hammer. "Blamed funny," he muttered, yet he knew where there was smoke there must be human beings. He stopped short at some sound and listened attentively.
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