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She came in, in her white dress and bonnet, her fair plump face flushed, her eyes twinkling in anticipation of the sensation she was about to create, and found mother and sister gravely awaiting her. "Here I am! I am married, mama," she announced. Instead of the outburst she had expected: "Yes, my dear, so I have been hearing," Mrs. Day said.
Turning to Patience, who had stood impassive during this outburst, she said with sudden penitence: "I'm sorry I lost my temper. I will come again to see you at some other time. Good-bye." As the door closed on Alice, Kathleen confronted Patience with blazing eyes. "It is all your fault," she accused wildly. "I hate you!
Jimmy's face was twitching. If he had been a woman one would have said that he was on the verge of an hysterical outburst. Sangster rose to the occasion. "Let's go and get a drink," he said prosaically. "I'm as dry as dust and we haven't had any lunch." Jimmy said he wasn't hungry, that he couldn't eat a morsel of anything if it were to save his life.
They were fiery and emotional, after the manner of the sons of the Old Dominion, and the wrongs of many kinds which had long been rankling in their hearts now demanded to be requited by some action no matter how daring. Virginians never shrank from danger. Bacon had been wholly unprepared for this outburst; but he had a strong, calm soul, a ready brain, and the blood of youth.
"Indians!" he gasped, with an effort that brought a torrent of blood spurting from his mouth; and he added, faintly, "But I've bate 'em, th' divvils, in their hopes of a soorprise!" These triumphant words were the last that Dennis Kearney uttered on earth. As he spoke, a fresh outburst of blood came from his nostrils and mouth, a quiver went over him and then he was dead.
And Bubbles followed Barbara's gratifying exclamations of surprise and inquiry with a syncopated outburst of explanation, finishing with: "And Mr. Lichtenstein said I was to throw us on your mercy, and ask if he could stay to finish his writing, and he's stepped into some bushes off the driveway to put on his own clothes.
In a fit of desperation, or, rather, in an outburst of passion, he had made the hasty decision to catch the Roland at Southampton when he learned that the Swede and his daughter had embarked on it at Bremen on the twenty-third of January.
Answers came from every English speaking person in the room in one great outburst. "Yes." " Well, let us in," called Nora Black. " It is all right. We've got an officer with us." " Open the door," said Coleman with speed.
To this the king agreed, and Wali Dâd sent the merchant to Nekabad, with a number of attendants, and with such handsome presents that the prince came at once, fell head over ears in love with the princess, and married her at Wali Dâd's palace amidst a fresh outburst of rejoicings.
Ivan dies in a fit of wrath, hurling curses on his family and court dies in a fit of wrath into which he has been purposely taunted by a man who knows that the outburst is certain to kill the weakened monarch. Where does Ivan the Terrible go when Death closes his eyes? I know not. But this I believe: No confessional can absolve him no priest benefit him no God forgive him.
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