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He could not shake it off, he could not sleep till he had got out of bed and sponged his lips vigorously. Meanwhile Mary Ann was lying on her bed, dressed, doing her best to keep her meaningless, half-hysterical sobs from her mistress's keen ear. It was a long time before Mary Ann came so prominently into the centre of Lancelot's consciousness again.
There was a silence in the cell, broken only by Madge's convulsive sobs, and even Calton, cynical man of the world as he was, felt his eyes grow wet. Brian led Madge over to him, and placed her in his arms. "Take her away," he said, in a broken voice, "or I shall forget that I am a man;" and turning away he threw himself on his bed, and covered his face with his hands.
Her eyes were suffused with tears; her limbs trembled, and had not a stern look from her father reminded her of her duty, her oppressed heart would have found relief in sobs. Mr.
They throw themselves on my neck, four arms are clasped round me at once. Emotion gets the better of me, and a tear steals into my eye. There are two in those of my wife, and Baby, losing his head, sobs as he kisses my hand. It is absurd. Absurd, I don't know; but delightful, I can answer for it.
One of the gentlemen in attendance on the king preceded him and announced his approach, whereupon the loud clamor of tongues ceased, the men bared their heads, and the women checked their sobs. "What is wrong here, my friends?" the monarch asked with exceeding gentleness. There was silence for a moment; the beccamorti looked sullen and ashamed.
He laid the book upon the table, fumbled for his spectacle case, and contrived to smile as he held out a hand to Kathleen. "You will come every Christmas Eve, won't you, Deary?" he said. "Yes, Daddy," murmured Kathleen, between the sobs that Tiny Tim had drawn from her soft little heart. "Every Christmas Eve, Daddy?" "Then it won't be so bad as it seems now," he said gently.
He stared down at the white face, already powdered with snow; then glared about into the murky distances, revolver ready for action, every nerve throbbing. God! If he ever met the murderer! Then swift reaction came, and he buried his eyes on the neck of the nearest horse, and his body shook with half-suppressed sobs.
She struggled with her sobs, and subdued them; but her breath came unevenly, and to hide her agitation she leaned on him and pressed her face against his arm. "Don't don't," he whispered, soothing her. Her troubled breathing sounded loudly in the silence of the sleeping house.
"O, O, O!" she cried, breaking down at last; and, shaking with sobs which choked her, she sank upon her knees. "O, will you have done! O, you are too relentless there's a limit to the cruelty of savages! I have held out long but you crush me down. I beg for mercy I cannot bear this any longer it is inhuman to go further with this!
'Not that. Oh, not that! I wish it was. 'My dear Cherry, you can't have been naughty! 'Yes, yes! indeed I have. And now 'I can't think O Cherry, if you would only tell me what you mean! cried Wilmet, aghast. And with agonised sobs. Cherry whispered, 'Mr. Rugg O Mettie such things as I said about him to Sister Constance I made sure I had forgiven long ago and now now, after that.
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