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Vergine Santa!" she cried, beholding now the ugly wound that gaped in his shoulder, and turning pale at the sight. "Assuredly he will die of it and he so young, Peppino, and so comely to behold!" Francesco stirred, and a sigh fluttered through his pallid lips. Then he raised his heavy lids, and their glances met and held each other.
You will hear him, perhaps, to-day, though truly, I dread his appearing for his own sake as much as I desire it for that of the accused." "I care not for myself," said Fournier; "truth is with me a passion, and I would have it taught in all times and all places." He that spoke was a young man, whose face, pallid in the extreme, was full of the noblest expression.
She was still very pale, but the brightness of her dress and of her feathery golden ringlets, distracted an observer's eyes from her pallid face. All mental distress is, with some show of reason, associated in our minds with loose, disordered garments and dishabilled hair, and an appearance in every way the reverse of my lady's.
He has gone to earth in some hiding-hole in his house, above the study; and his fatigue and privations seem to have unsettled him a little. Mazeroux, go and ferret him out unless this is just some fresh trick on his part. You have your warrant." Sergeant Mazeroux went up to M. Desmalions. His face was pallid. "Monsieur le Préfet, did he tell you that we were going to be blown up?" "He did.
It was but a dejected specimen of a college-bred man that sank into the chair in front of Riggs and faced him with pallid cheek and somber eyes. One look he gave at Bob Lanier, a furtive, forlorn glance, which met no recognition whatsoever. Lanier looked him over with indifference that bordered closely on contempt, but gave no other sign. "Mr.
"The wise and favored-of-the-gods Living Buddha burned incense in a brazier and prayed to the Gods to reveal the lot of the Princes. In the blue smoke all saw a dark prison and the pallid, tortured bodies of the dead Princes. . . ." A special book, already done into thousands of copies, dwelt upon the miracles of the present Living Buddha.
Hidden like a treasure; with its blue domes, its elegant minarets rising from thick walls or shooting into the air, its long terraces overlooking the wood, its light spires bending with the wind, its terraces everywhere rising over its colonnades, one might there imagine one's self in the kingdom of Bagdad or of Cashmir, did not the blackened walls, with their covering of moss and ivy, and the pallid and melancholy hue of the sky, denote a rainy climate.
Her hair is brown, her cheek is delicately pallid, her forehead is too ample for a ball-room beauty's. A single faint line between the eyebrows is the record of long continued anxious efforts to please in the task she has chosen, or rather which has been forced upon her.
When the Governor took his seat with the first Deemster on his right, and motioned Philip to the chair on his left, an involuntary murmur passed over the chamber at the contrast there presented the one Deemster very old, with round, russet face, quick, gleaming eyes, and a comfortable, youthful, even merry expression; the other, very young, with long, pallid, powerful face, large eyes, and a tired look of age.
Suppose, even, that among other miserable convicts she saw Maxime pallid, thin, sullen and hopeless, his good looks and his brilliant audacity crushed and gone would not the romantic feeling she had conceived for him be instantly turned into horror and disgust?
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