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But some men have a positive talent for standing in their own light. For a second or two her eyes challenged his in mute amazement. Each seemed trying to read the other's thought. But pride darkens insight: and at the critical moment a slight movement of the arm she held reminded her of Garth's glimpse behind the scenes.
"January, February, March, April, May, June, July. My pretty Theo, what a mistake it was only seven months, and then to have lost you. Good God, my darling!" and his voice became a low, agonized cry. "Good God, my darling! and I cannot give you up!" Theo glanced up at Priscilla Gower, mute with misery for a moment.
. . . At earliest dawn . . . the first skylark . . . was a Song-Fountain, dashing up and sparkling to the Ear's eye, in full column or ornamented shaft of sound in the order of Gothic Extravaganza, out of sight, over the Cornfields on the descent of the Mountain on the other side out of sight, tho' twice I beheld its mute shoot downward in the sunshine like a falling star of silver. Coleridge!
However unlikely it may be, it might have been a monkey but a man, a living man, and with him a whole generation of gigantic animals, buried in the entrails of the earth it was too monstrous to be believed! During this time, we had left the bright and transparent forest far behind us. We were mute with astonishment, overcome by a kind of feeling which was next door to apathy.
He fell back, his lips pressed together till they were thin and white, and his fists clenched as he strove to battle with the jarring torture in his nerves. The sweat stood out in glistening beads on his forehead, and his brows contracted down until they almost hid the eyes in the frown of determined will. The mute agony of the man's face sent back the disgust which was growing in Tony's heart.
Again he clasped her to his breast; and Waife this time stood mute, and Sophy passive for the man's tears were raining upon her face, and washed away every blush of shame as to the kiss they hallowed. "But where is my old friend William Losely? where is Willy?" said another voice, as a tall, thin personage stepped out from the hall, and looked poor Waife unconsciously in the face.
A golden sunbeam was shining through a crevice in the blinds; the birds were twittering in the ivy outside; oxen were lowing to each other across the park. Morning, with all her music, was abroad. I started up in bed and rubbed my eyes. Within the house everything was as mute as the grave.
As for me, if I have lingered too long by this old tower, it is because it suggested this book; and we owe some gratitude to these mute witnesses of a past which they keep in our remembrance. Victorien Sardou. The House of the Combrays
'Yes, for I cannot. Genevieve turned away, as in his best hand, and bad it was, Albinia read the commencement "My hope, my joy, my Genevieve!" In mute astonishment Albinia looked up, and met Genevieve's eyes. 'Oh, madame, you are displeased with me! she cried in despair, misinterpreting the look, 'but indeed I could not help it.
To-morrow Cloudy Sky gives a medicine feast, and to-morrow night Haokah will make my heart strong, and I will kill the medicine man. His soul will travel a long journey to the land of spirits. There let him drink, and boast, and frighten women." Red Deer heard her, mute with astonishment. The color mantled in her cheek, and her determined countenance assured him that she was in earnest.
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