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Wendover occasionally made a remark to her she failed to understand him, was unable to answer him. Fortunately he made very few; he was preoccupied either wondering also what Selina was 'up to' or, more probably, simply absorbed in the music. What she had comprehended, however, was that when at three different moments she had said, restlessly, 'Why doesn't Mr.
She went over the words of the young man's letter as well as she could remember them, and let her heart soar and be glad that Stephen had touched one life and left it better for his being in the university that little time. Once she stirred restlessly, and Father put out his hand and touched her in alarm: "What's the matter, Rachel? Aren't you sleeping?"
"Look at the fingers of his right hand. They have not moved since the pencil fell out of them." "The letter, or whatever it was, shall be looked for," declared the constable. Sweetwater bowed, his eyes roving restlessly into every nook and corner of the room. "James was the stronger of the two," he remarked; "yet there is no evidence that he made any attempt at suicide."
Then, one evening, Fred asked, as he restlessly paced their study floor: "Have you seen your pacifist friend lately?" "No. Not exactly. Why?" "Well, for my part, I think she ought to be locked up," Fred said, angrily. "Have you heard what she did this afternoon?" "No." "It's all over college. She got up in the class in jurisprudence and made a speech.
Everything helped to depress men's minds. On that Sabbath morning all was sombre desolation around Leipzig, while within that city naught was heard but the groans of the wounded and the lamentations of the citizens. Still Napoleon's spirit was unquenched. Amidst the steady rain he paced restlessly with Murat along the dykes of the Pleisse.
Aren't you well?" "No, I don't believe I'm very well!" Julia admitted restlessly, lighting the shaded lamp on the centre table, and snapping off the side lights that so mercilessly revealed her pale face and burning eyes. "Not well enough for the theatre? Well, but darling, I don't care one snap for the theatre," Jim assured her eagerly. "Only I hate to see you so nervous and tired.
The last deep notes of the gong died away, and Vera's eyes half-opened again. They dwelt restlessly upon the brilliant patch of garden visible under the lowered sun-blind. The splendour of the June world without served to increase the wretchedness of her mood by contrast. The sultry heat seemed to weigh her down. Life was one vast oppression and bondage. She was weary to the soul.
Every attempt to make the day a happy one, by normal play, associates the emphasis on worship with increased happiness in the child's mind. "What shall we do?" the children ask restlessly on Sunday afternoons, and it is by no means a strange question. All the week they have their school work, on Saturdays their play. No wonder Sunday afternoon seems dull.
She darted a startled backward glance. Her fingers closed tight about his, then restlessly snuggled inside his palm and Milt was lost in enchantment.
He expected to be gone a week; but week after week passed and he was still at the capital, directing the paper by telegraph and sending Marian hurried notes postponing his return. She was going about daily, early and late, her life vacant, her mind restlessly seeking occupation, interest. After he had been gone three weeks she found herself at dinner at Mrs.
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