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My mother counted her rosary; my uncle sank into a revery; my twin brother pinched my leg under the table, to which I replied by a silent kick; and my youngest fixed his large, dark, speaking eyes upon a picture of the Holy Family, which hung opposite to him. My uncle broke the silence; he did it with a start. "And how, Sir William?"
Woods and fields were flooded with the brightness of moon and stars, but if anything was passing on the other side of Bull Run, it was too well hidden for him to see it. His senses were soothed and he sank into a state of peace and rest. In reality it was a physical relaxation coming after so much tension and activity, and the bodily ease became mental also.
The light from the sheet of flame died gradually away as the flame itself sank downwards into the abysses of the pit. But about this in itself there was nothing wonderful, for as we had seen with our own eyes from afar this fire varied much, and indeed it was customary for it to die down at the approach of dawn, which now drew very near.
And must the telephone be shut away from the public and never take its place of service in the great world? Why, if a thing was not to be used it might almost as well never have been invented! The spirits of the telephone pioneers sank lower and lower. The only way to raise money seemed to be to sell the telephone instruments outright and this Mr.
Shaking in every limb, near to fainting, she groped her way across, found almost fell against her little writing-table, and sank upon her knees before it for the moment too spent to move. But a slight sound that seemed to come from near at hand aroused her.
I went forth and walked about the town; the night deepened I saw the lights in each house withdrawn, one by one, and at length all was hushed Silence and Sleep kept court over the abodes of men. That stillness that quiet that sabbath from care and toil how deeply it sank into my heart! Nature never seemed to me to make so dread a pause.
For a moment the level of the water around us sank again, as it poured into the immense excavation where the grove had stood, but in an instant it was reinforced from all sides and began once more rapidly to rise. We gave ourselves up for lost, and, indeed, there did not seem any possible hope of salvation.
When the longed-for day came at last, when she sank on the grass by his side and with a quick gesture took his hand in hers, he sat up suddenly with the movement and look of a man awakened by the crash of his own falling house.
"Who was she?" said Jill. "I don't know." "Rot!" said Jonah. "It's the truth." "She looked rather a dear," said Daphne. "She is. You'll meet her to-morrow. And Berry she wants to meet Berry. She said so." "There you are," said my brother-in-law. "Is my tie straight?" I lighted a cigarette to conceal a smile. When I had adjusted the cushions, I sank into the chair and sighed.
He looked inquiringly at the grotesque green-and-white figure seated before the piano, then his glance met his wife's, and he sank into a big chair by the door, a pleased look on his dark face. The younger child glanced at him shyly. He returned the look and smiled. The child's face brightened. The door opened again, and a slight figure stood in the doorway.
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