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Guest would be so kind," smiled at him with such a gracious warmth that it was all he could do to reply with a decent unconcern. But the hands of the clock on the writing-table were nearing half-past eleven, and now it was she who referred to the lateness of the hour. "Thank you very much," she said to Maurice on parting. "And you must forget the nonsense I talked this evening.
That night brought together all those comrades of the Guards of M. Dessessart and the company of Musketeers of M. de Treville who had been accustomed to associate together. They were parting to meet again when it pleased God, and if it pleased God. That night, then, was somewhat riotous, as may be imagined. In such cases extreme preoccupation is only to be combated by extreme carelessness.
This was so pleasant a prospect that Patty brightened up, and though at parting she could not be comforted, Marian went away rather happier than she expected. There would be some excitement in getting back. She would go to see Mrs. Hunt very often, and perhaps Ruth Deering would come to see her, or her grandmother would let her spend an afternoon with Ruth sometimes. Mrs.
I tell ye, Johnnie, there's trouble to face i' this world worse ner death, not worse ner our own death, fur that's most times a good thing, but worse ner the death o' them we love most true an' worse ner parting i' this world, Johnnie, an' worse a'most than sin itself; but, thank God, not quite worse ner sin.
I could not think of parting with it. We carried off all that had belonged to my mistress, even her body-clothes and the body of the dead babe, resolved to shew it to my master, and impose upon him by saying that his wife had died in childbed, and that we had left her to be buried by the clergyman. Our object in this was to do away all suspicion of unfair play.
"I quite understand that this enforced parting under such circumstances is most unfortunate for you both," he said. "But I have done, and will continue to do, all I can in your interest." "I can't quite make you out, Mr. Peters," said the young man. "Why should you evince such a paternal interest in me?" The Sparrow did not at once reply. A strange expression played about his lips.
Gray leapt forward, and the pair of them bent to the task. There came a dull report of parting mechanism, more sounds of splintering wood... and the door rolled open! A moment of tense silence, then: "Is anyone inside there?" cried the Inspector loudly. Not a sound came from the dark interior. "The lantern!" whispered Monte Irvin.
The Countess, whose mind was in unison with her husband, repeated her assurances of pardon and protection; at which the penitent rejoiced in silence, while he raised his head and took a parting view of those charms which had formerly enslaved his heart.
They had this room." When Jude came back and sat down to supper Sue seemed moping and miserable. "Jude," she said to him plaintively, at their parting that night upon the landing, "it is not so nice and pleasant as it used to be with us! I don't like it here I can't bear the place! And I don't like you so well as I did!" "How fidgeted you seem, dear! Why do you change like this?"
Cameron was full of talk and fuller of laughter than his wont; indeed he was vexed to find himself struggling to maintain unbroken the flow of laughter and of talk. But in Mandy there was neither speech nor laughter, only a quiet dignity that disturbed and rebuked him. The last tree of Gravensteins was picked and then there came the time of parting.
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