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Noah Truscott, as she told me herself in the last conversation I ever had with her, was the name of the man whose drunken example ruined her father, and Noah Truscott is also the name of the man whose drunken fury killed her. There is something that makes one shudder, something supernatural in this awful fact.
"Yea, verily; and I will tell thee all I know. "I have heard my father speak of these things," answered Cuthbert, with a light shudder, calling to mind his father's fierce and terrible descriptions of the scenes he had witnessed and taken part in during those short but fearful years of Mary's reign, "but I knew not it had aught to do with the loss of the treasure."
"I understand," answered Varillo with a faint shudder, for the strong and relentless personality of Gherardi overpowered him with a sense of terror which he could not wholly control. "Good! Then we will say no more. Brief words are best on such burning matters. To-morrow at six in the afternoon I will send for you. Be ready! Till then try to rest try to sleep without dreaming of a scaffold!"
"I daresay she 'ad the door locked, sir," he said. "By special train," I mumbled. A light broke in upon my reviving intellect. "Why, it was the train that went through at a mile a minute while we were in the coffee-house. No wonder we didn't meet her!" "I shudder to think of wot would 'ave 'appened if we had, sir," said he, meaning no doubt to placate me. "Mr.
You may need 'em for yourself, son!" That grim suggestion made Sandersen and Quade shudder. But a grin spread on the broad, ugly face of Lowrie, and Sinclair merely shrugged his shoulders. "I'll try you for a dollar." "Nope." "Five dollars?" "Nope." "You're afraid to try, Lowrie!" It was a smiling challenge, but Lowrie flushed. He had a childish pride in his skill with weapons. "All right, kid.
She paced the room now, like a caged lioness, her face livid with the fury that possessed her. She no longer asked questions; she no longer addressed him; oath followed oath from her thin lips, and the hideousness of this woman's blasphemy made me shudder.
My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder. 'Then, said the king, 'you have saved the castle, and shall marry my daughter. 'That is all very well, said he, 'but still I do not know what it is to shudder!
"It hasn't been easy for me. Sometimes when I have got a man to go with me I walk along the street praying that I won't shudder and draw away when he touches me with his hands. I know that if I do he will go away and I won't get any money. "And then they talk and lie about themselves. I've had them try to work off bad money and worthless jewelry on me.
The king turned on his throne and laid his hand on Desiree's arm; we could see her draw away from his touch with an involuntary shudder.
"I have found you very easily, Mademoiselle," Preciosa felt a sugary little shudder at this repetition of the word, "I have found you very easily," said Prochnow, casting about for his palette and brushes; "and now I may just as easily lose you." "Oh no," said Elizabeth Gibbons, with great earnestness. "Never fear," said Little O'Grady confidently.
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