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Still there were some who doubted it was the corporeal woman whom they beheld; and several of the crew who were catholics even made the sign of the cross as the supposed spirit was now borne up the gangway in the arms of the pained yet gratified De Haldimar: nor was it until her feet were seen finally resting on the deck, that Jack Fuller could persuade himself it was indeed Miss de Haldimar, and not her ghost, that lay clasped to the heart of the officer.
She affected to consider him a reporter who had sought an interview with her. She stood erect, facing him with one hand on a hip, the other patting and readjusting her blonde coiffure. "Really," she began in a voice of pained dignity, "I am at a loss to understand why the public should be so interested in me.
By which she betrayed that she had divined those arts she was to shine in, according to Tracy; and betrayed that she had a terrible fear of a loss of all else. It pained her now that Tracy should not be coming.
She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any more." Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was pained to feel that perspiration.
The driver looked pained, as if some small tatters and shreds of conscience were flapping uncomfortably about his otherwise dismantled spirit.
Now, Maine, what is the use of looking pained? the girl is a snake or a sneak, which amounts to the same thing. Let us have truth, I say, at all hazards." "I am sorry!" said Maine, simply. "I am not fond of Chicago, and that is the very reason why I should not call her names behind her back. It slipped out before I knew it; I am sorry and ashamed, and that is all there is to say.
Peter had to repeat his act of will. "How could he tell her?" he asked. She frowned at him, with reproach that was explicit now, and a kind of pained astonishment. "How could he help telling her?" she cried. "But but it was the one great fact between them. But it was a fact that intimately concerned her it was a fact of her own destiny. But it was her right to be told.
And to meet that paper will try me severely. Oh, dear! How little I dreamed of this! I thought him one of the soundest men in the city." "I am pained to hear that you are so deeply involved," said Mr. Watson. "But, do not let it trouble you too much. I will defer my building intentions to another time, and let you have whatever money you may need." Mr. Johnson made no answer.
Bustling, keen, loquacious, tart, the good dame scolded servants and petty tradesmen with admirable effect; but even at this distance of time the sensitive ear is pained by her sharp, garrulous tongue, when its acerbity and virulence are turned against her pacific and scholarly husband.
He uttered these words with manly gravity, as one who did not underrate the peril he was resolved to face; and left them with a respectful bow. "That's a rising man," said Mr. Carden; "and may draw a hundred of his class to the 'Gosshawk. It was a good stroke of business, quite out of the common." Grace said not a word, but she shook her head and looked pained and ill at ease.
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