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He understood and was silent. "Are you fit to bear a long ride in the cold?" he said compassionately a few minutes after. "Oh yes! It will do me good." "You have had a miserable day, have you not?" "My head has been pretty bad, " said Fleda a little evasively. "Well, what would you have?" said he lightly; "doesn't that make a miserable day of it?"
Eve did not greet Adam in polite phrase when he awoke to find her in the dawn of one Eden day, a helpmeet meet for him. Neither did Eve reply that "it was a fine morn ing." It is always a fine morning in Eden. They were silent, and so were these two. Their hands lay within one another a single instant.
Not myself: no, nor God; for I have denied Him! O Lord! O Lord!" Amyas stood silent with fear and horror; some instinct told him that he was on the point of hearing news for which he feared to ask. But Jack spoke "My dear soul! my dear soul! don't you be afraid; and the Lord will stand by you, if you will but tell the truth.
An ill-fate might, at any moment, plunge horse and rider headlong into one of those silent sentries. It would mean anything. Broken limbs at the best. But Providence ever watches over the reckless horseman, and, in spite of a certain native caution in most things, Tresler certainly was that.
I was silent, and lay listening, so to speak, with all my might, till a low swishing sound reached us, just as if someone had brushed against a bush. Uncle Dick laid his hand upon my shoulder, and he pressed it hard, as if silently saying, "Did you hear that?"
He held out his hand to have it taken in a long, silent grip that made it ache. "Come on and go back home with me," urged the Doctor. "You've made good out here. Do the brave thing now and go back and live down the past. It'll make the old folks so happy it'll wipe out the heart-break of all those years that you've been away."
For once in his life he was speechless rather than silent, as the girl poured out the inside gossip of the Montmartre which Kennedy had now stamped with the earmarks of legal proof. She had turned from Dorgan, as if from an unclean animal and was now facing Ogleby. "As for you, Martin Ogleby, they call you a club-man and society leader.
In Mercy's unawakened soul, echoed now and then a faint thrill of response to some of the things Alister said, and, oftener, to some of the verses he repeated; and she would look up at him when he was silent, with an unconscious seeking glance, as if dimly aware of a beneficent presence.
After that Odysseus was silent, his mind full of sweet and anxious thoughts. Meanwhile other familiar forms had drawn near, the spirits of warriors renowned, whose very names were as a battle-cry when they dwelt on earth: Achilles, Patroclus, and Antilochus, and farther off, looming dimly in the darkness, the gigantic shade of Ajax. Achilles was the first to speak.
I ought to have been made an officer, because I can read and write." Behind him the silent old lady fetched a moaning sigh from time to time; the distracted father muttered to himself, pacing the sala; and Gaspar Ruiz would raise his eyes now and then to look at the daughter of these people.
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