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Noble-hearted girl! she is calm and silent, but she has always been so. She has grown thinner, and perhaps her cheek is a trifle paler, but her forehead was burning and seemed to scorch my lips as I kissed her. With this exception, however, there was nothing else about her that would betray her tortures.
"My dear madame, I have done nothing blameworthy," returned Fraisier. Evidently he meant to deny his nocturnal visit to Pons' rooms. Every hair on La Cibot's head seemed to scorch her, while a sense of icy cold swept over her from head to foot. "What?" . . . she faltered in bewilderment.
For the fever of knowledge will scorch even those who peer over the sides of the cauldron." Lady Caroom helped herself to some more tea. "Really, Arranmore," she drawled, "for sheer and unadulterated pessimism you are unsurpassed. You must be a very morbid person." He shrugged his shoulders. "One is always called morbid," he remarked, "who dares to look towards the truth."
"Take with her also the curse of the Mother of God, and His beloved Apostle, and that of the whole Church of Christ, by me declared upon your head in this world and upon your soul in the world to come. Man, this is sanctuary, and if you dare to set foot within it in violence, may your body perish and your soul scorch everlastingly in the fires of hell.
Balancing this very cleverly, he held the meat down until it was almost against the crimson coals. He could have done the same with the blaze, but he preferred this method. Almost instantly the meat began to crisp and scorch and shrink, and to give off an odor which would have tortured a hungry man.
Gordon had sent her a ten-dollar note, but through Madame Schakael. When she asked him if she could go home with Jennie Bruce over Easter, he sent her at once another twenty dollars and his permission the latter just as short as it could be written. Scorch evidently watched the mail basket on Mr. Gordon's desk with the eye of an eagle.
Howsever, verses were there for several days; I seed 'em myself: but one stormy night there came a terrible clap of thunner, and an awful flash of lightning, and it went right through chamber of Tommy's house, and next morn letters were all gone, and nothing were left but a black mark, like a great scorch with a hot iron. This were old Anne's tale.
It soon came out that when lecture-hours were over, he put off his lowland dress, and went everywhere in Highland costume. Indeed on the first day Alec met him in the gloaming thus attired; and the flash of his cairngorms as he passed seemed to scorch his eyes, for he thought of the two on the pier, and the miserable hour that followed.
Slowly the little flame mounted, and when it threatened to scorch his fingers the promoter of Donnaville tossed the blazing fragments into a convenient cuspidor. He looked up and saw Carey regarding him curiously. "That was your mortgage" the land-grabber said wonderingly. "You have burned half a million dollars." "I was selling you my friendship at cut rates, Mr. Carey.
"Does this 'Old Gordon, as your friend Scorch calls him, really seem like a man given to outbursts of charity, Nance?" "Why why, I never saw him but once," replied Nancy. "But did he impress you as being of a philanthropic nature?" urged her friend. "No-oo." "I thought not," observed Jennie. "Just because Scorch reminded him of your existence wasn't likely to make him send you money.
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