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They saw her, from the window, run wildly through the court-yard and out at the gateway. For a few moments they stood motionless. Affery was the first to move, and she, wringing her hands, pursued her mistress. Next, Jeremiah Flintwinch, slowly backing to the door, with one hand in a pocket, and the other rubbing his chin, twisted himself out in his reticent way, speechlessly.
His anger choked him up again and he could only glare speechlessly at Anne, who recovered her temper and followed up her advantage. "I can make allowance for you, Mr. Harrison, because I have an imagination. I can easily imagine how very trying it must be to find a cow in your oats and I shall not cherish any hard feelings against you for the things you've said.
Without lifting the black veil which enveloped her from head to foot, she speechlessly signed him to follow her.
The manager glared speechlessly for a moment, and then gasped, 'Explain, sir. 'Mr. Rubach, said Christopher, 'had sprained his wrist by a fall this evening. He came to me and requested me to play for him behind the scenes in the last act. You know what happened. That I cannot explain. The situation was awkward for everybody.
'Only go! and then she found him gone, and she stooped lower to the glass, to mark if the recent agitation were observable under her eyes. There, looking at herself, her heart dropped heavily in her bosom. She ran to the door and hurried swiftly after Evan, pulling him back speechlessly. 'Where are you going, Evan? 'To Lady Jocelyn. The unhappy victim of her devotion stood panting.
"What did the girl tell you!" cried her son. She clutched her breast, her lips moved, but no sound emerged. Rufus saw that she was too frightened to speak. "Don't be scared," he said roughly. "All you've got to do is to tell me the truth." He made a mighty effort to control his rasping voice. "Did you know Geraldine was goin' away?" Mrs. Carder shook her head speechlessly. "Sit up, Ma.
Hayward leading the way, carrying a torch made of strips of palm branches bound tightly together and dipped in gum dammar, a most inflammable resin; then a policeman; the sick girl, moaning and stumbling, leaning heavily on her sister and me; Babu, who had grown very plucky; a train of policemen carrying our baggage; and lastly, several torch-bearers, the torches dripping fire as we slowly and speechlessly passed along.
This John had said with quite unruffled good humour, and with a smile on his face, as though such an upheaval of domestic politics were the simplest thing in the world. Though for years the insolence and the idleness of Ash had been favourite grievances with Lady Belstone and Miss Crewys, they were speechlessly indignant with young John.
"Put all over the place!" he cried, and found Mr. Rusper emerging from his shop with the large tranquillities of his countenance puckered to anger, like the frowns in the brow of a reefing sail. He gesticulated speechlessly for a moment. "Kik jer doing?" he said at last. "Tin mantraps!" said Mr. Polly. "Dressing all over the pavement as though the blessed town belonged to you! Ugh!" And Mr.
The women rushed to meet them, Lorand was the first whom everyone embraced and kissed. "And your wife?" asked every lip. Lorand pointed speechlessly to the wain, and could not tell them. Desiderius answered in his place. "We have brought his wife here in her coffin." Seventeen years have passed since Lorand returned home again. What old people we have become since then!
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