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The presence of his boy soon calmed the old man, however, and he fell into a troubled sleep in which Malcolm, who sat by his bed all night, heard him, at intervals, now lamenting over the murdered of Glenco, now exulting in a stab that had reached the heart of Glenlyon, and now bewailing his ruined bagpipes. At length towards morning he grew quieter, and Malcolm fell asleep in his chair.
'It would be quieter and more comfortable, said either the mother or the daughter who manage the concern. I thanked them, and settled myself in an arm-chair with my book, when, looking up there on the mantelpiece stood the fellow cup the identical shape, pattern, and colour! It all flashed into my mind then.
His dress and accoutrements were on the same general order as those of Don Gaspar, but of quieter colour and more serviceable material. His horse, however, was of the same high-bred type. A third animal followed, unled, packed with two cowhide boxes. The Spaniard rode up to us and saluted courteously; then his eye lit with recognition. "Ah," said he, "the good friends of our Capitan Sutter!
Her deed thus exposed, presented to her in all the high folly of it, she seemed to flinch as if she herself were struck with the frightful indiscretion of her descent from Starker's. "It's quieter. That's more what I want." He smiled. Pressed home, she was evasive as she had ever been. "Look here," he said, as if he were changing the subject. "You've been found out." "Found out, Ranny?" "Yes.
He took his place beside Dora, who started the car and headed down-town. After Paul's departure Eva hurried to her father's room and tried to comfort him. He was seated in a chair, staring blankly ahead of him. He was quieter now, but his body twitched nervously from time to time.
Among the younger children the desire for muscular activity makes running games of all sorts popular; as boys grow older they imitate the primitive impulse to hit and run, so well provided for in games of ball; girls enjoy their recreation in a quieter way as they grow older, and show a tendency to association in pairs.
He nearly broke down, but he struggled bravely. I was terribly shocked, though a moment's reflection told me that so strong and healthy a person would not die so easily. I expressed my sympathy as best I could. "What is it? What is the illness?" I asked when he was quieter. "Jungle fever, my dear fellow, jungle fever; caught in that beastly tiger-hunt. Oh! I wish I had never taken her.
The picture of the Gitana of Seville hands on some of its own power to the quieter pages, and at length, with a score of other achievements of the same solid kind, kindles well-nigh every part of the shapeless book. Mention to me a point of devilry with which that woman is not acquainted.
And always came the damning answer: "No I've been false, miserably false, both to myself and him." In her quieter moods the moods she dreaded most she allowed her mind to dwell on the past. She wondered what John was doing and where he was. Had he succeeded or had he failed? For a long time she had received no word. On leaving Mrs.
And in the dead silence which followed them, the breathings of the man and of the woman could be distinctly and separately heard; and there was this difference between them his respirations gradually grew quieter and less rapid after the enunciation hers, from having been low and regular, increased in quickness and force, till she almost panted. "I cannot, I cannot, Mr. Maybold I cannot!
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