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The doctor tore it open, turned pale, and finally read these words: "I am sewing ribbons on a straw hat." Amazement prevented them from bursting into a laugh. "A mere coincidence, deuce take it! It proves nothing." And as the two magnetisers wore looks of triumph, he turned round at the door to say to them: "Don't go further. These are risky amusements."
When from decency she could not say everything she left the more to be understood. Christophe would go pale with shame and anger: he would go white as a sheet and his lips would quiver. Rosa, foreseeing what must happen, would implore her mother to have done: she would even try to defend Sabine. But she only succeeded in making Amalia more aggressive.
The bay mare would have carried me there and back in an hour and a half." "The roads war verra heavy, my lord. An' jist hear till the win'!" The marquis listened a moment, and a frightened expression grew over his thin, pale, anxious face. "You don't know what depends on it," he said, "or you would have driven better. Where is Mr Soutar?" "I dinna ken, my lord.
This tinge of colour inside is just enough to relieve the pale cheeks. Do you see, sir?" "It is without a fault," said the doctor. "Take it off, please," I said. "I want to find something that will not cost so much something that will not cost near so much." "There is that cap that is too large for Miss Van Allen " the milliner's assistant remarked. "It would not suit Mrs.
But," added he, in a more serious tone, "there is a report in the village that an attempt has been made to arrest Holden." "To arrest whom?" exclaimed Faith, turning pale, "father Holden! For what?" "He is not taken yet, and, were one to believe all the stories one hears, not likely to be.
He was thin, and looked pale from dissipation. His face was covered with spots, his eyes were gray, his eyelashes white. He was smoking a very large pipe, and a tumbler of some kind of drink stood on the stone pavement at his feet. He stared at me between the puffs of his pipe, and neither moved nor spoke.
Then all was silence and darkness save where the movement of an oar sculling over the stern made the water flash and gleam with phosphorescence, and raised up ripples of pale lambent, golden light. "Who's that?" said Mark, in a whisper. "On'y me, sir," replied a familiar voice, in company with a smothered groan. "Tom Fillot?" "Ay, ay, sir," came back dismally.
An open space ensued, in the centre of which advanced a child with starched white skirts springing out in a lacy wheel about spare, bare knees, her pale yellow hair tied in an overwhelming blue bow; and holding outstretched, in a species of intense and quivering agony, a white velvet cushion to which were pinned two gold wedding bands.
Her pale face flushed a little as the man suddenly stooped and touched her forehead with his lips. "God bless you for your kindly heart," he said.
An act of virtue may sink into the void, but it is then, most of all, that we learn to gauge the depths of life and of soul; and often will it fall into these depths like a radiant stone, beside which our thoughts loom pale.
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