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While with one brown hand he held them back, with the other he swept off his wide, black hat. "How do, Mess!" he cried, softly, his teeth flashing a white greeting. She answered him with a "Hello, Joe!" as she climbed to his side.
Stretching his arm to the escritoire, he softly opened a side drawer, took out an oval-shaped engraving of his favourite Sappho, and compared the nose, chin, and ear with those of the unconscious girl. Satisfied with the result, he restored the picture to its hiding-place.
"We will do so, however," replied the bourgeois, who had twenty men behind him. "Wait a little, my good friends. You do not know the Parisians. Well, I will show you a specimen of what they can do." "Let us arrest him!" cried the furious militia. "Softly, my little lambs of Anjou; it is I who will have that pleasure." "What does he say?" asked the bourgeois.
And Father Claude called softly after him: "Good-night, M'sieu. Good-night." Menard lay awake. He could see the priest sitting by the door. He wondered if the maid were sleeping. A late breeze came across the valley, arousing the leaves and carrying a soft whisper from tree to tree, until all the forest voices were joined. Lying on his side he could see indistinctly the council-house.
At the commencement of this verse the Dominie appeared to be on his guard; but gradually moved by the power of song, he dropped his elbow on the table, and his pipe underneath it; his forehead sank into his broad palm, and he remained motionless. The verse ended, and the Dominie, forgetting all around him, softly ejaculated, without looking up, "Eheu! Mary."
Her very sympathy for his wounds would make her easily influenced; this natural sympathy must not be inflamed by doubt of my motives and the thought that I had deliberately sought the man's life. It may have been two rods between the fence and the grape arbor, and I called to her softly. She came toward me swiftly, slipping through the night like a shadow, instantly recognizing my voice.
At last the beautiful creature tasted the sugar and greedily ate the lumps, permitting Carolyn June gently to stroke the velvety muzzle. Then the girl's hand crept higher and higher on the horse's neck and after a little an arm was slipped over the filly's neck. "You darling!" Carolyn June breathed softly, "I love you!
We don't have monsters plaguing us like King Hrothgar, but every day there is trouble and grief going on somewhere, and we happy and strong people must care for the sad ones if we want to do our duty and help to straighten the world a little." "Father," whispered Milly, softly, "will you tell us how Olly and me? We would if we knew how."
She entered the room softly. Madeline had her eyes fixed on the ceiling, and did not move them as her sister approached the bed. "Maddy!" Then indeed she looked at the speaker, and with surprise, so unwonted was this tone on Barbara's lips. Surprise was quickly succeeded by a smile. "I know, Barbara; I understand." "What? How can you?" "I heard a cab drive up, and I heard a knock at the door.
The Dr. lay perfectly quiet for an hour or two after Edward left him; he then crept softly out of bed, partially dressed himself, noiselessly out of bed, partially dressed himself, and then wrapping a sheet around him, crept out of the house, by a window which opened from the room to the piazza.
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