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The Colonel still stood by the window, though his face was but half turned toward it, and the flickering of the candle on the table shone across it. How deep and sad were the lines around the mouth; how fearfully furrowed the high forehead beneath the white hair. Hartmut shuddered unconsciously he had not thought to find the change so great nor so painful.
Why could she never be calm in his presence, but was always so fated to feel, feel, feel! Her voice trembled as she looked up at him and answered, "Am I wicked, Paul? I wanted to be happy to-night just for to-night! I wanted to forget the fate that was staring me so relentlessly in the face. But I couldn't, Paul!" Then she glanced through the curtains into the ballroom and shuddered.
The black dog was on his back, as people say, in terrifying nursery metaphor; and he breathed hard under the gruesome burden. "He looks as if he could knife him," whispered Tabary, with round eyes. The monk shuddered, and turned his face and spread his open hands to the red embers. It was the cold that thus affected Dom Nicolas, and not any excess of moral sensibility.
"Please your Majesty, a black crime is charged upon them, and clearly proven; wherefore the judges have decreed, according to the law, that they be hanged. They sold themselves to the devil such is their crime." Tom shuddered. He had been taught to abhor people who did this wicked thing. Still, he was not going to deny himself the pleasure of feeding his curiosity for all that; so he asked
Look after the lady an' her father, Rainey." Tamada entered as if nothing had happened. He carried a tray of dishes and cutlery that he laid down on the table. "Never mind settin' a place for Carlsen, Tamada," said Lund. "He's lost his appetite permanent." The Oriental's face did not change. "Yes, sir," he answered. The girl shuddered.
Stephen parted the bushes, and then stepped lightly to the corner of the hut. Not a soul was to be seen moving about, and he dashed across to the house opposite, crawled along by its side, and then looked round. The great fire had burned low, and Stephen shuddered as his eye fell upon the mass of embers and thought of what was lying below them.
At that word La Cibot shuddered. "Yes, and it is he who sends you there," continued Fraisier. "Ah! my dear madame, you little know what a red robe means! It is bad enough to have a plain black gown against you! You see me here, ruined, bald, broken in health all because, unwittingly, I crossed a mere attorney for the crown in the provinces.
Granger broke in upon the frenzy of his appeal, asking abruptly, "Where is Mordaunt now?" If his face had not been in the shadow, Granger would have seen how Spurling's lips tightened as to withstand sudden pain, and his body shuddered at that question. "Oh, Mordaunt is all right," he said. "He left the Yukon soon after you left he said that the fun was spoilt without you.
But he had his answer ready, "It canna be my wite, for I never kent o't till you telled me. Grizel, it has just come about without either of us kenning!" She shuddered at this, and then seized him by the shoulders. "It has not come about at all," she said, "I was only frightened that it might come, and now it can't come, for I won't let it." "But can you help yoursel'?" "Yes, I can.
"Neither do I," said Long Jim, and stepping forward he lifted the slain man in his arms and tossed him as far as he could down the side of the hill. They heard the body rolling and crashing some distance through the grass and bushes, and they shuddered. "I hated to do it," said Long Jim, "but it had to be done. Besides, they'll get it now and take it away."
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