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At that bureau the figure of a woman was now seated in the posture of one writing. A strange dim light was around her, but whence it proceeded I never thought of inquiring. As if I, too, had stepped over the bourne, and was a ghost myself, all fear was now gone. I got out of bed, and softly crossed the room to where she was seated.
Canning advanced a step. Carlisle's gaze moved a little and encountered his in the glass. In his eyes lay his whole opinion of one half the human world.... "Don't look at me in that proprietary way...." Canning laughed softly. He was fully prepared for coquetry. "Proprietary! It's the last way, my dear, I should venture to look at you."
"When I was a boy," said the Skeptic, very softly to me, after the music stopped, "I used to pick out men to admire and follow about, and consume myself with wishing that some day I could be like them. How could a girl like that one we've had here to-day look at our Gay Lady and not want to copy her to the last hair on her head?" "There are some things which can't be copied," I returned.
He showed the weapon in its precious scabbard and sought to lay it in her hands, but "Oh, why! why!" she demanded, though with a gaze that ravished his, . "Why are you not on your way ?" "Am!" he softly laughed. "Here, leave me the dirk, but take the sheath.
But Minnie stopped to gather a rose. "Don't stay with me," said Maggie, softly, although she had held his hand like that of a friend, and did not feel that the little fairy's manner was particularly cordial or gracious. Frank took her at her word, and ran off to Edward.
She brushed the drops away, and saw his altered face. 'What is the matter, dear? she asked. 'It is only happiness they do not hurt. 'Sometimes you are so beautiful that I do not dare to touch you, he said softly. She turned her golden head quickly with a bright smile, and a crystal drop that lingered on her lashes fell upon her soft cheek.
The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody, till Friday coming pretty near, calls to him, as if the bear could understand him. “Hark ye, hark ye,” says Friday, “me speakee with you.” We followed at a distance, for now being down on the Gascony side of the mountains, we were entered a vast forest, where the country was plain and pretty open, though it had many trees in it scattered here and there.
So she would carelessly talk him back into quietude again; and then she would stealthily withdraw from the room, and perhaps go to the piano and begin to play some Neapolitan air but so softly that the notes must have come to him like music in a dream. Lord Rockminster called that afternoon and was shown up-stairs.
Softly and calmly we refused to sacrifice, thanked the imperial official, who warned us kindly, and in the same hour and place we fell into the hands of the torturers.
She moved to the fire and stood looking down into it. "Jack," she began, gently, "a really amazing thing has happened to me. I do so want you to throw some light." Loder said nothing. There was a fresh pause while she softly smoothed the silk embroidery that edged her gown. Then once more she looked up at him.
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