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Seldom was there an opportunity for them to converse, for Fawkes was up before daylight, and rarely returned until after the midnight hour had sounded. Often it was in her heart to ask his confidence often to hint that she had overheard his words on that fearful night, but when she approached with such intent, a nameless something in his manner held her mute.
"Yes, of course all the time always." "But Bess, you told me you let me think I made out you were a so so ashamed." "It is my shame," she said, with voice deep and full, and now the scarlet fired her cheek. "I told you I'm nothing nameless just Bess, Oldring's girl!" "I know I remember. But I never thought " he went on, hurriedly, huskily.
It seems more and more certain that, as cells of one vast organism, we are connected with everything that exists by an infinitely intricate network of waves, vibrations, influences, currents and fluids, all nameless, numberless and unbroken.
But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth hand to seize him; so that, unimpeded, he passed within a yard of the prince's person; and, while the vast assembly, as if with one impulse, shrank from the centres of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple through the purple to the green through the green to the orange through this again to the white and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him.
"I am not nameless; I only ask leave to withhold my name until I have told one or two other things." "But you don't mind confessing you're an out-and-out rebel sympathizer?" Under the broad-brimmed hat her smile grew to a sparkle. "No, I enjoy it." The chief-of-staff smiled, but the General darkened and pressed his questions. At length he summed up.
Our position seemed absolutely hopeless, and I began to fear that we should never escape from the City of Blood. The scenes we witnessed there were so revolting, that I cannot now reflect upon them without a shudder. The ghastly "customs," the absence of all protection for life and property, the grinding oppression, the nameless horrors of all kinds, were terrible.
All that day enthusiasm bubbled in the town like water boiling in a pot; all day the troops continued to march in; shabby and dusty and dirty and tired, they were nevertheless all stamped with some nameless quality which they had not when they left England.
It is true that it is sometimes called the finger for applying rouge; but that is only a name given it by ladies, and is not in general use. So, having no name, it is called the nameless finger. And how comes it to have no name? Why, because it is of all the fingers the least useful. When we clutch at or grasp things, we do so by the strength of the thumb and little finger.
And, as he watched, his trustworthy eyes and most sweet smile lighting up a face to which his forefathers had bequeathed little beauty or intellect, he might have been the guardian angel of the nameless Jan, scarcely veiled under the likeness of a child. His mother smiled tenderly back upon him. He was very dear to her, and not the less so for his tenderness to Jan.
Wylie should learn that she was nameless was born in disgrace so deep that, no matter how good she might be, she would yet be classed with the wicked. "I'm down like a thousand of brick on any woman that is at all loose with the men," continued the landlady. "I never could understand how any woman could so far forget herself."
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