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Her face had grown very serious, but her eyes remained unfathomable under his angry gaze. "Is there any reason to raise that spectre between us?" he demanded. "Dear, has it ever been laid?" she asked sorrowfully. The muscles in his cheeks tightened and his eyes narrowed unpleasantly.
I murmured sorrowfully. "But the more I think about it, I've better hope of them," continued Jack, in a more cheerful tone. "You see, Ralph, I've read a great deal about these South Sea Islands, and I know that in many places they are scattered about in thousands over the sea, so they're almost sure to fall in with one of them before long." "I'm sure I hope so," said Peterkin earnestly.
His smile was wistful. "We must choose the lesser evil." Still gently, almost sorrowfully, but with a directness and clarity of thought which amazed me, he plunged into a detailed account of what Georg was to do in command of our forces. My own part in it, already planned by him in detail. Maida's part. Elza's. The division of Rhaal maidens. Girlhood in war! It seemed very strange.
He was young and handsome and well beloved; he had fair estates and hosts of friends; he might have risen high in the councils of his nation; but death, stern and unyielding, claimed him, and he braced himself to meet it. "Thank God!" he murmured; "I die with a clear conscience." I stayed with him till nearly midnight, when he became unconscious. Then having work to do, I sorrowfully went away.
After her came the mayors and the magistrates of a dozen villages. Count Marlanx's reason for delivering these people over to their friends in the Castle was at once manifest. By the words of their mouths his almost complete mastery of the situation was conveyed to the Prince's defenders. In every instance the representative from a village sorrowfully admitted that Marlanx's men were in control.
If I am condemned to live in obscurity and lowliness, at the very least, I must not be prohibited from adorning this obscure and inglorious existence with flowers, which thrive not at the foot of the throne, and to illuminate it with stars more sparkling than the refulgence of the most radiant kingly crown." "Oh, you are mistaken about your own self!" said John Heywood, sorrowfully.
"I'm tired and maun gang to my bed, for I hae a sair heid," said Mr Cupples, that first night. "That's my doin'!" said Alec, sorrowfully. But eh me! I'm feared I winna sleep muckle the nicht." "Wad ye like me to sit up wi' ye?" asked Alec. "I cud sleep i' your cheir weel eneuch." "Na, na. We hae baith need to say oor prayers, and we cudna do that weel thegither.
Why don't you try and get back your place at the theatre? You could still earn enough to keep him." "Already I have tried," she replied, sorrowfully. "My place is filled up. You see," she added, with a forced laugh, "I have lost some of my looks, Leonard. I am thinner, too. Of course, I shall be all right presently, but it's rather against me at these west-end places."
And then Molly woke by feeling a tugging at her bedclothes, and there was Betty, with round frightened eyes, standing over her. 'Molly, Molly, wake up; tell me it is only a dream! Where is Prince? Molly sat up, rubbed her eyes, and tried to recover her lost senses; then she looked sorrowfully at her little sister. 'Don't you remember, Betty? You get into bed with me, and I'll tell you again.
"You are Miss West," she said "Cynthia West?" "Cynthia Westwood," replied the girl, and looked sorrowfully yet proudly into Enid's eyes. Her face was flushed, but Enid's had turned pale. "Will you stay and speak to me for a minute or two? I see that you were going out " "It does not matter; I need not go," said Cynthia, removing her hat and laying it carelessly on one of the tables.
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