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"I meant what I said, and I shall stick to it. But it wasn't for the sake of defying you that I said it. I have a better reason than that." He was still quivering with anger, yet because of that gibing devil at his elbow he strove to speak temperately, strove to hold back the raging flood of fierce resentment that threatened to overwhelm him.
He knocked at the door, and she herself opened it and led him into the parlor. She was pale as death, her eyes distended with misery, every feature quivering, every nerve trembling with fright and violent emotion. She began madly walking up and down the little room wringing her hands, shivering, gasping for breath. "In heaven's name, what has happened?" "Oh! I cannot tell you! I cannot tell you!
He stood immovable for several minutes, dreamily gazing after her, while her words were still resounding in his ears like an inspired prophecy. But when he heard the carriage roll away on the street, he started, passed his hand across his quivering face and whispered: "I have deeply wronged her; may God forgive me!"
It seemed to them, however, that all human misery inclusive of their own, the affections, the hopes, the griefs which brought them suffering was sobbing and quivering in that buzzing hall. Twilight had gradually fallen there, but as the end was now so near it had doubtless been thought unnecessary to light the chandeliers.
'And then when she said that at the meeting about "the dark hour," and I looked at her face, it flashed over me Oh, why did you desert her? It was as if the iteration of that charge stung him out of his chill anger. 'I didn't desert her, he said. 'Ah-h! Her hands went fluttering up to her eyes, and hid the quivering face.
Alaire acquiesced mechanically. Longorio saluted her fingers in his customary manner, and then, with a look eloquent of things unsaid, he went out to see to the comfort of his command. Alaire sank into the nearest chair, her nerves quivering, her mind in a turmoil.
You mustn't marry me I won't let you!" Then her mood changed. "And yet it's so hard to go on alone even for a little way." Her eyes closed on her hot tears, her head drooped, and Ben, putting his arm about her neck and pressing her quivering face against his breast, reproached her very tenderly: "I won't let you say such things, dearest you must not! You're not yourself to-day." "Oh yes, I am!
"I don't know why everybody should think that Mr. Drake " His great eyes were fixed on her face and his mouth was quivering, and, to prevent him from speaking, she put on a look of forced gaiety and said, "But how did you light on me at last?"
Snatch and fight for the flesh and devour it and trouble me no more! This is the body that was given for you look at it, torn and bleeding, throbbing still with the tortured life, quivering from the bitter death-agony; take it, Christians, and eat!" He had caught up the sun with the Host and lifted it above his head; and now flung it crashing down upon the floor.
Put it in the pantry, Dolly; I daren't touch it myself." Dotty was quivering with excitement, but Dolly's steady hand carefully lifted the precious cake and carried it safely to the pantry. Later in the afternoon, the girls made ready to go to the bazaar. They were to serve as assistants in the cake department, for the majority of the cakes were to be sold.
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