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That worthy, after the interview, conducted the youth to the hut where his visitors lived, and, rousing Van der Kemp without disturbing the others, bade him listen to what the young man had to say. An expression of great anxiety overspread the hermit's usually placid countenance while Babu was speaking.
"Oh, yes you are," and the girl smiled. "Just behave as you have since your accident, and I wouldn't change you for any man I know." "Be careful, be careful what you say, Jess. I am not altogether blind and deaf." A rich flush overspread the girl's cheeks, and her eyes sparkled as she turned them upon her father's face. She understood the meaning of his words.
"Earl, knowing the mission upon which you go to-night, criminal in its utter folly, I would not for my life put my hand in yours," responded Ensal. A flush of anger overspread Earl's face, his lip quivered and he was upon the eve of uttering some biting remark. He suppressed his anger, however, and departed, determined upon making his offering of blood.
An angry flush overspread the face of Lucian Davlin, as he realized, after one quick look at the face of Percy, how thoroughly she had betrayed herself. He was too good a diplomat, however, to quit the field without a stroke in his own behalf. So giving a low whistle he turned toward the spinster, saying: "See what excitement will do. One would think she had the strength of two of us."
And you have brought me the list?" "No, uncle." "What mean you, boy?" "I mean that I have obeyed your first command; I have been to the Christian meeting as a Christian." A puzzled, inquiring look overspread the premier's countenance. "Well, what then?" "Well, then, of course I acted the part of a Christian to the best of my power.
"My Enrica," he said at last, taking her by the hand and imprinting a kiss upon her forehead, "you are a good child. Heaven bless you, and keep you always as you are!" A conscious blush overspread Enrica's face. "If he knew all, would he say this?" she asked herself; and her pretty head with the soft curls dropped involuntarily.
"What do you think, Doe?" said I. "Radley's making me sweat to get into the Team." A momentary pain and jealousy overspread Doe's face. Quickly passing, it gave place to a whimsical glance, as he rejoined: "What do you think? Honion's doing the same with me." "Look here, then," said I, as much despairingly as generously, "I'll stand down. You'll be fifty times better than I shall."
It now began to be a grief to me to see the turgid pallor that gradually overspread the always ashen countenance of Zaleski; I grew to consider the ravaging life that glared and blazed in his sunken eye as too volcanic, demonic, to be canny: the mystery, I decided at last if mystery there were was too deep, too dark, for him.
He was so good a man, and so profoundly revered by the Athenians, that they intrusted to him the keys of their citadel. He lived in a degenerate age, when scepticism and sensuality were eating out the life and vigor of Grecian society, when Greek civilization was rapidly passing away, when ancient creeds had lost their majesty, and general levity and folly overspread the land.
"Very well, then, read that," and the clergyman handed her the slip of paper. "Please take care of Rodney. I will come for him some day. The Lord will reward you even if I can't. As Mrs. Royal read this brief note, a peculiar expression overspread her face. She uttered no word, but her head drooped lower over the baby and she remained very still.
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