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Only, as they had kept so long to each other, she supposed there must be love between them. Myrtle fell into a revery, with certain tableaux glowing along its perspectives which poor little Susan Posey would have shivered to look upon, if they could have been transferred from the purple clouds of Myrtle's imagination to the pale silvery mists of Susan's pretty fancies.
"I took a homestead up there and some day they will want to buy my place or they will want to make a fight with me to get the water. Could you know that man again?" "Raine!" Brit's voice held a warning, and Lorraine shivered again as she turned toward him. "Raine, you " He closed his eyes again, and she could get no further speech from him. But she thought she understood.
She felt proud to think her hero had been the first to shoot at the beast. "I didn't give myself time to get scared," he answered. "I just fired as quickly as I could." "But supposing the wildcat had jumped on you!" And the girl shivered and caught him by the arm. "I should have defended myself as best I could, Jessie."
So they sat about it, speculating, and discussing it: and one said this, and another that. And all the while as they talked the bird sat motionless, with its gaze fixed on the clear, blue sky above it. And one said, "Suppose we let the creature loose to see what it will do?" and the bird shivered. But the others cried, "It is too valuable; it might get lost.
Now and then a wintry wind shivered through the place and sent the snow eddying hither and thither. In the centre of the court stood two women, chained to posts. A glance showed the King that these were his good friends. He shuddered, and said to himself, "Alack, they are not gone free, as I had thought. To think that such as these should know the lash! in England!
As he looked, in truth, there was only one face a composite mask of what he had done battle with, and overthrown, and would trample implacably under foot. He stared with a conqueror's cold frown at it, and gave an abrupt laugh which started harsh echoes in the stillness of the Board Room. Then he shook off the reverie, and got to his feet. He shivered a little at the sudden touch of a chill.
In this solitary hour, when the night-lamps flickered on the massive walls and the sense of loneliness grew upon him till he sickened at the unceasing cry of the pitiless wind, he realised that the Guard was the sole bulwark now as always of Maäsau. He shivered down among the soft coverings and listened apprehensively.
He ran to his own room, not knowing what he was doing, flung himself, dressed as he was, face downwards on his bed, wrapped himself convulsively, head and all, in the sheet, and lay so for two hours incapable of sleep, incapable of thought, with a load on his heart and blank, immovable despair in his soul. Now and then he shivered all over with an agonising, feverish tremor.
Very well," he repeated several times, and then he shivered and said with a groan: "My feet are so cold! But never mind, never mind, I like to be cool."
Therefore, because he wills it, for his sake, not for yours, I will attend you to the altar. Also, if he should desire me to do so, I shall remain at Rockhold until the return of Mr. Fabian Rockharrt." At the sound of this name Rose Stillwater winced and shivered.
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