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From Frayser's Farm, so short a distance away, came a deeper roll of thunder. It had a solemn and a pleading sound, How long are we to wait for any help? Cleave knit his brows; then, with a decisive gesture of his hand, he dismissed the doubt and stepped in front of his colour company. Attention! Into column. Forward!
"I will not annoy you," replied Maxwell, with emphasis, as he assumed an air of more self-possession. "I have been pleading for exemption from the direst of human miseries. But I will not annoy you, even to save myself from endless woe." "Forget this misplaced affection; for he assured my sentiments will continue unchanged." "I can never forget it; but I will strive to endure it with resignation.
The gray ocean seemed trying -and the thought consoled him a little to call him back home; but the great tree whispered to him to remain. Then Father Murray's face seemed to rise up, pleading for his sympathy and help.
He, Lester, pleading with her, and she loved him so. She went over to him, and he took her hand. "Now, listen," he said. "There's really nothing to be gained by your leaving me at present. Where did you say you were going?" "To Cleveland," she replied. "Well, how did you expect to get along?" "I thought I'd take papa, if he'd come with me he's alone now and get something to do, maybe."
We get pretty close to the edge sometimes and never know how near we are to destruction," Vic had said to Elinor in here on the April day. It was not Vic's guardian angel, but little Bug whose white face was thrust between him and his victim, and the touch of a soft little hand and the pleading child-voice that cried: "Don't kill him, Vic. He's frough of fighting now. Don't hurt him no more."
The colloquy there was long and for the most part carried on through the keyhole, but in the end their visitor was admitted, a beetle-browed brute of much the same stamp as his host. "You are nice ones," he said sulkily, "to be so suspicious about an old friend, especially when he comes on a job." "Don't be angry, dear Hans," interrupted Simon in a pleading voice.
And there will not be a dozen other men there?" She smiled. "I do not think there will be anyone else. I rarely receive in the morning." "But are you sure?" He had a long sweep of black lash, through which the clear blue of his eyes had a way of shining with a pleading, softening lustre, immensely effective. It was an accepted fact that when Mr.
It would have been a cold heart indeed that would not have responded to such a speech as this, uttered with the pleading prettiness of a loving child. Besides, I had warmed to her from the first moment I had touched her hand; and I was overjoyed to think that she was willing to elect me as a friend. I therefore replied to her words by putting my arm affectionately round her waist and kissing her.
She would not look into his eyes they bothered her quite beyond all reason so she looked at the deck instead, as though hoping to find some rule of conduct there. "I am sorry, Opal," went on the pleading tones, "that is, sorry that it offended you. I can't be sorry that I did it yet!" After a moment of serious reflection, she looked up at him sternly. "It was a very rude thing to do, Paul!
By now they are pleading to God for vengeance on you, Ishmael, the outcast. You will never dare to be alone again, for they will haunt you." As he thought it the relaxed hand of the old clergyman who had fallen in a sitting posture on the bed, slipped from his wounded head which he had clasped just before he died, and for a moment seemed to point at him. He shivered, but still he could not stir.
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