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The rector appeared similarly confused and shaken, and had sunk nerveless and terrified upon a sofa. 'You guess dimly, I see, at what I have to say, resumed Danby with a malignant sneer. 'Well, hear it, then, once for all, and then, if you will, give me up to the officers.
I think I should have shaken my head, but she laid an emphasis on my, which the little gipsy knew would have its effect. All my resolutions, all my pride, all my sense of injury vanished before the mild, beautiful eyes of Sarah, and I replied hastily, "Yes, Miss Sarah, I can refuse you nothing." "Why Miss, Jacob?" "I am a waterman, and you are much above me."
Henry was conscious that, at the supreme instant when his finger pressed the trigger, he had been shaken by a sudden emotion. The muzzle of the rifle which bore directly upon the body of the chief had shifted just a little, and he was not surprised when the bullet went wide. Timmendiquas stopped, raised his own rifle, but fired straight up into the air.
And slipping past her brother she went out, leaving him staring at the bronze Venus sitting on a tortoise, which had been shielded from him so far by his sister's dark head under her soft felt riding hat. He felt queerly disturbed, shaken to his young foundations. A lifelong domination lay shattered round his feet. He went up to the Venus and mechanically inspected the tortoise.
Great chiefs who had not been to the council came hundreds of leagues across wide rivers that they might see with their own eyes this man who had made peace without gold, and these had to be amused and entertained. The apples ripened, and were shaken to the ground by the winds. The good Father Gibault, true to his promise, strove to teach me French.
Strangeways? Police! Oh, I am so sorry I didn't send you a wire. I thought you would come tomorrow, or the day after. How very kind of you to take this trouble immediately. I had to run over at a moment's notice. Mrs. Rolfe! Forgive me; for the moment I didn't know you, coming out of the darkness. So glad to see you. He had shaken hands with both of them, behaving as though Mrs.
For several minutes the boy lay there, now and then his slight figure shaken by a sob that he was powerless to keep back. "I cannot have it I don't believe it is true. I wish it had been I instead of Walt," he muttered in the excess of his grief. Tad cheeked himself sharply and raised his head. "I thought I heard something," he breathed. "I know I heard something."
His hearers had often been pleased and touched before; now they were stirred, and made uncomfortable. Their responsibilities, as each one the keeper of his brother's soul, were solemnly laid before them. The listless, contented indifference to the sins and sorrows of their fellow-men was rudely shaken. Their satisfaction in their own safety was attacked.
The cries of men and fowls mingle with the barking of dogs, and the voice of Kozyavkin rises above the chaos of confused sounds: "You shut up! I'll pay. I'll show you whom you have to deal with!" Little by little the voices die down. Laev feels himself being shaken by the shoulder. . . .
Before the light of her shaken mind had gone out she had written him, incoherently, practically in extremis; and if he had hitherto doubted where his duty lay, from that moment he had no longer any doubt. And very quietly, hopelessly, and irrevocably he had crushed out of his soul the hope and promise of the new life dawning for him above the dead ashes of the past.
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