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Lying almost in the same position, the old woman, with a sardonic smile on her face, had spoken of the time when she should be speechless, sightless and deaf, while Paterson would go about stealthily as if she was afraid the corpse would hear.
Her pale, hollow face, to which the fixedness of the white and sightless eyes gave almost the appearance of death, and three or four solitary and projecting teeth made menacing, was framed by a little hood of brown printed cotton, quilted like a petticoat, trimmed with a cotton ruche, and tied beneath the chin by strings which were always a little rusty.
The old man was standing at the head of the stairs as if about to descend; and though she could not see his face she knew that he was asleep. She glided to him noiselessly and put her hand upon his arm softly. He turned his sightless eyes upon her, evidently without seeing her, and, fighting against the desire to cry out, she led him gently back to his room.
Garth lay back, panting, and pressed his hands over his sightless face. "Doctor," he said, "I know I have given you heaps of trouble, and to-day you must think me a fool. But if you do not wish me to go mad in my blindness, send that girl away. Do not let her enter my room again." "Now, Mr. Dalmain," said Dr. Mackenzie patiently; "let us consider this thing.
He stopped when he came up with Hilarius, and turned his sightless eyes on him; a fire burnt in the dead ashes. "Art thou that son of Christ waiting to guide my steps, as the Lord promised me?"
Having hurled from the throne his in-offensive sons, will he be able to declare that he had treated them in a blameless way? He doth not now see with his mind's eye how he hath become so sightless, and on account of what act he hath grown blind among the kings of this entire earth. Is it not because he hath banished Kunti's son from his kingdom?
A curious pallor had crept into his face from underneath the healthy tan of his complexion. Andrew, sightless though he was, seemed to feel the presence in the room of some exciting influence. He rose to his feet and moved softly across to the sideboard. "Is it a telegram, George?" he whispered hoarsely. "Read it to me. Is it from Spencer?" Duncombe collected himself with an effort.
The fight's over, man, an' I guess God A'mighty brought this on us to show what fools we was. Where are y', Jan Larose? I'm goin' t' carry you out!" "I'm here!" called Jan. He could see truth and fearlessness in O'Grady's sightless face, and he guided him without fear. Their hands met. Then O'Grady lowered himself and hoisted Jan to his shoulders as easily as he would have lifted a boy.
She smoothed his rugged face with her soft hand, drew his head down and kissed tenderly the sightless eye that had caused him so many bitter hours of anguish in life. The strong man's body for the first time shook with sobs. And the woman soothed him as a child. "You are my soul's mate," she cried, in a transport of tenderness. "Frank Gordon is no longer my husband.
Rose-Marie had a sudden feeling a feeling that she had experienced before that the child was seeing visions, with her great sightless eyes, that other, normal folk could not see. All at once a great dread clutched at her soul. "She's not dying ?" she whispered, gaspingly. "Her smile is so very wonderful. She's not dying?" The Young Doctor turned swiftly from the bed.
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