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I must and will have the strength to confess my folly, and to admit that you are blind." Therese uttered a cry, and shook as though a chill had seized her. "O God, help me!" murmured the poor girl, sinking in her mother's outstretched arms, and weeping piteously.
I have a great bell in my head, or I would say more. Hearing is out of the question. Janet gazed piteously from him to me. To kill the deer and be sorry for the suffering wretch is common. I begged my father to walk along the carriage-drive. He required that the direction should be pointed out accurately, and promptly obeyed me, saying: 'I back you, remember.
By now we had passed to the side of the house in search of some other flower that grew in the shade, I think it was mignonette, and were out of sight of the verandah and quite alone. "Mr. Quatermain," she said hurriedly, "I am wondering whether to ask your advice about something, if you would give it. I have no one to consult here," she added rather piteously. "That is for you to decide.
She burst into tears and exclaimed piteously: "Oh! I have nothing now, Monsieur nothing to prove who I am! Mr. Farewell took everything, even the original letter which the English lawyers wrote to me." "Farewell," I urged, "can be forced by the law to give all your papers up to you." "Oh! I have nothing now, Monsieur he threatened to destroy all my papers unless I promised to become his wife!
But he had a queer recollection of her face, and when she repeated piteously: "Uncle!" he peered at her features, saying, "No!" in wonderment, several times. Her hair was cut like a boy's. She was in common garments, with a close-shaped skull-cap and a black straw bonnet on her head; not gloved, of ill complexion, and with deep dark lines slanting down from the corners of her eyes.
Weary at length of trying to surprise the fortress by a flank movement, yet reluctant to abandon the hope of seizing Pike, the wolves finally seated themselves upon their haunches at a little distance and seemed to consult, grinning and snapping their teeth from time to time at the spaniel, who cowered almost into the ground, whimpering piteously, while her master leaned upon his paling and laughed aloud, an insult to which the wolves responded by throwing back their heads and uttering howls like those of a dog baying the moon.
With a sudden gesture Chalmers caught the ends of the table and jerked it back. There in Brigham's lap were two cards. "I thought so!" exclaimed Chalmers. "You dirty little cheat! I've been watching you." The boy looked piteously at Chalmers' sneering face, at the faces of the others. The tears rolled down his cheeks. "For God's sake, boys," he moaned, "don't be hard on me. I was desperate.
The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously. And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends. The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse.
His was not a rugged constitution, and for the last fortnight or so he had feared that it was giving way altogether. Each evening he felt that he was growing weaker, and sometimes he thought piteously that he might go away for a while.
Having called the prisoners to them, they quickly with the point of their bayonets, broke off their handcuffs, and gave each of them a musket. At the commencement of the fray, poor Mrs. Jones, half frightened to death, had fallen to the ground in a swoon, with her little son piteously screaming over her.
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