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"Oh, look!" cried Grace, as they sat down upon a convenient bench. "They've started. Oh, girls, I'm glad I came!" Mutely the girls echoed the sentiment, and for the next hour they sat motionless, eyes and attention glued upon the magnificent spectacle of a thousand men, running, advancing, retreating, attacking, all in obedience to one great plan.
Alicia mutely studied Jane's resolute face. Honesty of purpose looked out from the long-lashed, gray eyes. She mentally contrasted it with another face; dark, spiteful and furtive. "I believe you. Forgive me, Jane." Her lips quivering, Alicia stretched forth a penitent hand. "There's nothing to forgive." Jane was quick to grasp the hand Alicia proffered.
In a stretch of wet road where the team had mutely begged leave to walk and the ladies had urged me to sing we had at length paused in a pebbly rivulet to allow the weary animals to drink, and the girls and the aunt and the greenwood and I were all in chorus bidding somebody "Unloose the west port and let us go free,"
Here, then, in Freekirk Head were three hundred fishermen with their backs against the wall mutely brave because it is bred in the bone quietly preparing for a final stand against their hereditary enemies, hunger and poverty. The low murmur of awestruck conversation suddenly stopped, for Squire Hardy, with his fringe of white whiskers violently mussed, had risen to speak. "Mr.
What unusual sight attracted them? ... and why were they all so silent as though struck dumb by some unutterable dismay? One or two, raising their heads, turned their pale, alarmed faces toward Theos as he approached, their eyes seeming to mutely inquire his opinion, concerning the alarming phenomenon which held them thus spellbound and fear-stricken.
He was perfectly still, but he had become grave. He was about to reply to the chief, when the trader entered the room hurriedly with a newspaper in his hand. He paused abruptly when he saw Eye-of-the-Moon. Armour felt that the trader had something important to communicate. He guessed it was in the paper. He mutely held out his hand for it.
"I suppose you'll be denying next that you were ever in Compigne " "I do." "Or that you would have married me last summer if I " "Olga!" "If I hadn't been wise enough " "You're mad!" She drew back form him, her eyes wide, but she had no reply. He took one step toward her and then stopped, impotent before her frailness, his glance wavering toward the door into the loft which mutely stared at him.
Her heart was fluttering, she knew not why. The moment that he asked went by and, dropping his arm, he turned upon her a face that he had not yet schooled to calmness. "The evening of the nineteenth of February," he said. "That was the last time we really met. Do you remember?" "Yes, I remember. It was the day of the deep snow." Cary regarded her mutely; then, "Yes, that was the important thing.
She did not answer him, only mutely held out the case, still without looking at him. He stood for a second or two, watching her, an odd flame coming and going in his eyes; then abruptly he moved, picked up the pearls from their case, straightened them dexterously, and clasped them about her neck. She lifted her face then, quivering and irresolute, to his. "And I can give you nothing," she said.
Did he ever wrong me?" "Yes!" "Ah! Then it's hopeless hopeless." He shook his head, and softly beat upon the hand he held, as though mutely asking her commiseration. "I did not go to Mr. Edmund last night," said Milly, "You will listen to me just the same as if you did remember all?" "To every syllable you say."
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