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My heart was full to bursting, and I dared not trust my voice, to offer him the common salutations of the morning. My face, I have no doubt, betrayed the agitation which I endeavoured to conceal. "You are late this morning, Geoffrey." "Yes, Sir I passed a very restless night, and the result is a bad headache." "How did that happen?" surveying me attentively, with his clear, glittering eyes.
Leland gazed at the new-comer, and saw a tall, powerfully-built and well-shaped savage stalk boldly forward toward the fire, and exchange salutations with those seated around. All regarded him suspiciously at first, yet his boldness and assurance seemed to disarm them, and room was made for him.
"Lawton," said the youth, impatiently, as the trooper entered, "hear you from the major?" The eye of the sister was now bent on the face of the trooper, who made his salutations to the lady with ease, blended with the frankness of a soldier. "His man has been here twice," he said, "to inquire how we fared in the lazaretto." "And why not himself?"
May God not visit you with vexation, and may he open to us a way of deliverance! And our salutation to the Hajj Muhammad ben Ali, and his brother, and their father, many thousand salutations. O my brethren! we anxiously and most earnestly do desire news of you; the Lord give us news of your welfare before long.
Ripton was landed at a hotel in Westminster. Ere he was halfway up the stairs, a door opened, and his old comrade in adventure rushed down. Richard allowed no time for salutations. "Have you done it?" was all he asked. For answer Ripton handed him Mrs. Berry's card. Richard took it, and left him standing there.
Chaffin was waiting for us at the gate when we alighted in front of the old wood-colored cottage that haven of weary legs in days gone by. Mrs. Chaffin was quite beside herself with joy. "Dear-a me!" said the good lady, after the salutations were over. "Dear-a sakes! How you've growed! I didn't think you'd ever live to get s' big.
She then passed to the differences still existing between her house and Harold's, and spoke well and wisely of the desire of the young Earls to conciliate his grace and favour. While thus speaking, Morcar and Edwin, as if accidentally, entered, and their salutations of Harold were such as became their relative positions; reserved, not distant respectful, not servile.
It was a case of rival prophets all else was obscured into a legend, and he saw the strife of race in the difference of creed. For the rest, he flourished the salutations and language of the Arab as though they were his own, and he spoke Arabic as perfectly as he did French and English. He was the second son of his father.
In further evidence of this it may be remarked, that there has but recently disappeared from the salutations of men, an action having the same proximate derivation with the curtsy.
After the first warm salutations had passed, he became sensible of the absence of the English chief; but this was expressed rather by a certain outswelling of his chest, and the searching glance of his restless eye, than by any words that fell from his lips.
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