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His face was deadly in its pallor, and he swayed in his saddle from weakness. But his spirit and courage were high. Harry saw the two generals talking together, and again he glanced at the valley. After long and desperate fighting the Southern victory had been complete. Any young lieutenant could see that.
The light striking upward through the green shade gave to Kenyon's face an extraordinary pallor. But it seemed to Chayne that not all the pallor was due to the lamp. "For six seasons," Chayne said, "Gabriel Strood came to the Alps. In his first season he made a great name." "He was the best climber I have ever seen," replied Kenyon. "He had a passion for the mountains.
It distributed great volumes of compressed air to all the water tanks, forcing open the valves and driving out the water. "Any of you youngsters know where the proper wrench is?" inquired the builder, looking keenly at the boys. There was an instant start, followed by widespread pallor. "Oh, it's not right to keep you in torment," laughed the builder.
Well, there's no difficulty! Come, Staff! Why delay! 'Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, you know! Why shouldn't the marriage take place directly the House rises and we leave London?" Stafford turned away so that his father might not see the sudden pallor of his face. "I'll I'll speak to Maude, sir," he said, trying to make his tone cheerful, if not enthusiastic.
How sadly taken by surprise was he, therefore, when, on meeting Claire, the latter said "Since I saw you yesterday, a matter has come to my knowledge which I feel bound to investigate, before proceeding any farther in this business." As if struck by a heavy blow, Jasper moved a pace or two backward, while an instant pallor overspread his face. Quickly recovering himself, he said
Are you ill?" he suddenly exclaimed, pausing before the young man and noticing for the first time the awful pallor of his face and the deadly collapse of his form. "Are you ill, my dear boy? Speak!" "Yes, yes, I am ill!" groaned Ishmael. "Where? where?" "Everywhere!" The judge rushed to the table and poured out a glass of brandy and brought it to him.
In the glaring pallor Bruce Visigoth was suddenly at her side, his felt hat bunched up in his hand and his hair wet-looking, as if drenched with perspiration. "I couldn't let you go without apologizing, Mrs. Penny." She smiled with lips that would pull to the nervous impulse to cry. "The idea!" she said, feeling the words tawdry and provincial as they came.
Sor Tommaso was sitting up near the window, in a deep easy-chair covered with ragged green damask. The girl was surprised by his pallor, as compared with his formerly rubicund complexion. Peasant-like, she glanced about the room to judge of its contents before she spoke. "How are you, dear Sor Tommaso?" she asked after the short pause. "Eh, what we have suffered for you, all of us!
An unquestioned Roumanian ancestry, an extraction indisputably Japanese, find no more favor in his eyes than an assumed stammer, a sham deafness, or a convalescent pallor put on for the occasion. East and west are alike in his sight. The retired registrar, the pensioned usher aspiring late in life to some petty magistrature, are powerless to touch his heart.
The two men stood side by side upon the grassy bank, Mannering broad-shouldered and vigorous, his clean, hard-cut features tanned with wind and sun, his eyes bright and vigorous with health; Leslie Borrowdean, once his greatest friend, a man of almost similar physique, but with the bent frame and listless pallor of a dweller in the crowded places of life.
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