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Catherine was sorry, but could do no more; and a short silence ensued, which was broken by Isabella, who in a voice of cold resentment said, "Very well, then there is an end of the party. If Catherine does not go, I cannot. I cannot be the only woman. I would not, upon any account in the world, do so improper a thing." "Catherine, you must go," said James. "But why cannot Mr.
My senses, in the greatness of my misery, actually forsook me, and, for more than a week, I was wholly delirious. My unfortunate mother was yet more to pitied; for she pined with unmitigated sorrow, eternally reproaching herself for the danger to which her too strict silence had exposed me.
Fallen indeed would that Boer have been considered who, within a few days of Majuba, offered to shake hands with a wretched English rooibaatje, picked up like a lame buck on the veldt. At the least he would have kept the ceremony for private celebration, if only out of respect to the feelings of others. On this occasion John's entry was received in icy silence.
"I ordered them here, to enter and search." A pause. "Search what? what for?" "For a woman I had reason to believe he had brought out here from town." "What? You infernal idiot! Why, she's his own sister, and this gentleman's wife!" The silence, broken only by the hard breathing of some of the excited men and the moaning cry of the woman, was for a moment intense. "Isn't this Mr.
The daylight began to dawn upon their conference; and Edmund, observing it, begged his friends to withdraw in silence. They did so, and left Edmund to his own recollections.
"That is the final blow," said he, raising his arm and clenching his fist. "The adventurer occupies the Pretender's house, the house of the Stuarts.".... He repeated: "The house of the Stuarts!" and then lapsed into a silence which the writer felt to be laden with more storminess than his last denunciation.
"The old man sat in silence a few moments and said, 'Mary, I must go. She knew her father too well to suppose that words would detain him, and so complied with his wishes.
A brief silence ensued as I ended, and the eyes of all were instinctively turned upon Zenobia, the ruling spirit the maker of the kingdom its soul its head and bright, peerless crown.
It was a strange sound, thin and brief; it fell dead, and silence returned as though it had never been interrupted. He had not recognised the Doctor's voice; but, as there was no one else in all the valley, it was plainly the Doctor who had given utterance to the sound.
He made no effort to touch her as he told her of his love, but when he had done, she knew that a strong man had laid his heart and his soul at her feet. He had never seen her whiter. Her hands were clasped tightly in her lap. There was a silence in which he did not breathe. Her answer came so low that he leaned forward to hear. "I am sorry," she said. "It is my fault that you love me. I knew.
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