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'No; it is not pretty, repeated the old lady; and, indeed, in no sense was it. Before luncheon Captain Lake arrived. 'So Wylder has run up to town, I said, so soon as we had shaken hands in the hall. 'Yes; I drove him to Dollington last night; we just caught the up train. 'He says he'll be back again on Saturday, I said. 'Saturday, is it? He seemed to think yes it would be only a day or so.
Then she straightened, and only the quiver of her lip marked the effort. "To save me from the Duke of Chartersea?" she said, so coldly that my conviction was shaken. "Explain yourself, sir." "You cannot love him!" I cried, amazed. She flashed upon me a glance I shall never forget. "Richard Carvel," she said, "you have gone too far.
How I would like to cut his throat!" The shade was grateful. O'Reilly dozed. He was awakened by being roughly shaken, and he found the man with the derby hat bending over him. The fellow was excited; his eyes were ringed with white; his expression bespoke the liveliest alarm. Loud voices came from the rear of the bohio. "What's the matter? Spaniards?" Johnnie was on his feet in an instant.
And at night, under the moon, like bubbles of air mounting to the surface of a pond, there came up the pearly notes of the toads. Almost they might have forgotten the surrounding presence of Paris but that the old house was perpetually shaken by the heavy vehicles rumbling by, as though the earth beneath were shivering in a fever.
Time has yet to show whether the loss or the gain has been the greater for the Allied cause and for mankind. It will be paid for at a heavy price but our hope cannot easily be shaken that sooner or later an event so full of promise for the misruled millions of the autocratic empire of the Tsar will mark a step forward, not backward, in the progress of the world.
"Yes dear, did he never tell you? He couldn't speak of your mother, I suppose," she answered when I had shaken my head in a mute reply to her question; "he couldn't, God help him. I heard he carries her picture and his to this day, in a little locket on his watch-chain, and that he lives in voluntary singleness, determined that no one shall ever replace her in his love."
The claim of collating to the great benefices of the church, a claim in defence of which the court of Rome had frequently shaken, and sometimes overturned, the thrones of some of the greatest sovereigns in Christendom, was in this manner either restrained or modified, or given up altogether, in many different parts of Europe, even before the time of the reformation.
But when we find that an even closer coincidence immediately presents itself, which manifestly is a coincidence only, the force of the evidence before derived from mere coincidence is pro tanto shaken. For consider what this new coincidence really means.
He asked the question which had been trembling on his lips. "Is it he?" She started, and laid her hand upon his shoulder for support. She was very much shaken. "Yes. See, he is beckoning. He wants me. I shall go to him. May God give me strength!" She moved forward to cross the road. He caught hold of her arm in sudden fear. "You mustn't think of it," he exclaimed. "You will spoil everything.
A little white hand was shaken to him from the window, and a sweet, innocent face leaned forward a face with dark, eyes and golden hair, lit up with a radiant smile. That face for the moment was New York to Margaret, and New York seemed a vain show. Carmen threw herself back in her seat as if weary. Mrs. Eschelle sat bolt-upright. "What in the world, child, made you go on so tonight?"
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