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He tried to make it up by coaxing words, and kissed the little hand, but the child was shy of him, and crept under Noémi's shawl. All night he was restless, wakeful, and crying. Timar got angry, and said the child was of a willful nature, his obstinacy must be overcome. Noémi cast a gently reproachful glance on him.
There was a look in her face that he could not understand. They ate their dinner quietly, not mentioning the events of the afternoon. Presently a telegram was brought to him. It read: "Come. My office, Downing Street, Friday. Expect you." It was signed "Faramond." At the same time came letters: from his grandfather, from Captain Maudsley. The first was stern, imperious, reproachful.
He gave such a start when I put my hand upon his shoulder, that he made me start too. 'You come upon me, he said, almost angrily, 'like a reproachful ghost! 'I was obliged to announce myself, somehow, I replied. 'Have I called you down from the stars? 'No, he answered. 'No. 'Up from anywhere, then? said I, taking my seat near him. 'I was looking at the pictures in the fire, he returned.
He avoided her markedly, for the smile which so annoyed him still lighted her face whenever she saw him, and there was in it a reproachful sadness which was even more aggravating than its simple childishness had been. One day Father Xavier, in turning over his papers, came across an old etching of Venus rising from the sea. The figure, with its outstretched arms, suggested a possibility to him.
Octagon doesn't allow Basil much, and mother has enough to do to make both ends meet. Basil is, I fear, extravagant. I know he gambles, though he never told me where he went " "To Maraquito's," said Cuthbert. "I have met him there." "I know," said Juliet in rather a reproachful tone. "I wish you would not gamble, Cuthbert." "I have given it up now.
The one with a happy, hopeful face gazed at the king; the other with a sad, weary countenance, in which sickness, sorrow, and disappointment had drawn their heavy lines, turned slowly toward him; her large eyes, red with weeping, were fixed upon him with an angry, reproachful expression. Frederick drawing near, recognized the queen and the Princess Amelia.
A few stars, widely spaced in this picture, glimmering sadly. I noticed again the infinite depth of patient sorrow in their serene faces; and I hope that the Vandal who first applied the flippant "twinkle" to them may not be driven melancholy mad by their reproachful eyes.
It had grieved them much to hear that Iskender was drifting into bad company, and entering on a vicious course of life; still more to learn that he showed an inclination to forget the enlightened religious teaching which he had received in childhood. His words moved Iskender more than he desired to show, arousing in his mind a thousand happy memories, reproachful now.
Theos glanced at him with a vague emotion of wonder and self- reproachful sadness. "Nay, wouldst thou indeed have consoled her, Sah-luma?" he inquired gravely, "How?"
He became grand in his own eyes, crowned as with a shining aureole, and his sadly reproachful attitude towards Lida almost moved him to tears. Then he suddenly felt bored. Yourii went on painting, and gave him no attention whatever. Novikoff got up lazily and approached the picture. It was still unfinished, and for that reason produced the effect of a somewhat powerful sketch.
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