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Then followed a pause, a terrible pause. They were standing face to face, pale, troubled, trembling with excitement, their teeth firmly set, their eyes eloquent with deep feeling.
"What have you seen, John Kembal?" Charles asked. "I will tell you without delay; but I can but pause to thank God with every breath that she can no longer do me injury, seeing she is in prison and chains." "Whom do you accuse?" "Susanna Martin." "What harm has she done you?" "Listen, and I will tell you all that I know myself.
After another pause, she went on: "What a shame to take you away just when we had all got to know and like you! I suppose we shall have some old fogey now who will preach against dancin' an' spellin'-bees an' surprise-parties. And, of course, he won't like me, or come here an' call as often as you do makin' the other girls jealous. I shall hate the change!"
"Yes; he is mad now. The flesh has mastered the spirit in its struggle for the moment. She holds his body" a pause and a smile "but his soul is mine. He may not know it now. He will some day. I know it, and I abide God's time." "How long can you hold such a delusion, I wonder?" he asked, with angry amazement. "Forever." she softly whispered. He drew himself up with grim force.
Time has softened the sternness of judgment relating to the king and queen; and we all pause to admire their bearing in adversity, but are forced to the conclusion "that nothing in their life so well became them as the manner of their leaving it."
Ought to had more lickings when you was young." "Aw!" said Tom. "Join him?" asked Peter after a pause. "No, I won't, an' he's no right to ask it, an' he knows it. Them dirty mines may pay an' they may not, but the farm's a safe thing an' I'll stick to it." "Maybe new capt'n'll make things go better.
Astonishment kept him silent for some seconds, and, in the awkward pause, the girl laughed constrainedly nervously. "After all your show of bravery in pursuing a woman, I verily believe you are too much frightened to arrest me if I chose to escape." "Salome, has something terrible happened at home, that you have come here at midnight to break to me?" "Nothing has happened at home."
Only he was sorry for you." "You mean he was sorry that I wasn't there sooner with my father?" "I think that was what he felt that there was only a stranger." "I was just in time," said Falloden slowly. "And I wonder whether anything matters, to the dying?" There was a pause, after which he added, with sudden energy "I thought at the inquest he himself looked pretty bad." "Otto Radowitz?"
"You?" said Cain, turning toward her. Then he didn't know what more to say, and went on piling up the wood. "I know why, already," said Vincenza. Leaning against the woodpile, she looked at Cain. After a short pause she continued. "They have told us what a strange name you have. So that is why you don't come over any more, isn't it?"
His name was MacEvoy, and he was Joey MacEvoy's father, and likewise Jim's and Hughey's and Martin's. After a pause the lad, a bright-eyed, freckled, barefooted wee Irishman, volunteered the further information that his big brother had run to bring "Father Forbess," on the chance that he might be in time to administer "extry munction."
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