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Victor stared, not understanding, and Colonel Woodville raised himself a little higher on his pillows. "Since when," he asked of all the world, "has a Woodville refused to pay his debts? Since when has a Woodville refused asylum to one who protected him and his in the hour of danger? Margaret, lift the blanket and invite our young friend in."
"Then I will be telling you. It is the grace of God." LeNoir stared at him, and then Macdonald Bhain went on to tell him how his brother had suffered and struggled long, and how the minister's wife had come to him with the message of the forgiveness of the great God. And then he read from Ranald's English Bible the story of the unforgiving debtor, explaining it in grave and simple speech.
I intended to tell you that first day you came back, but I couldn't somehow get to it, and I kept putting it off and putting it off till well, then I got fond of you, and every day made it harder." Here she made her supreme effort. "Child, I'm an old bluff. I'm not your mother at all." Lee stared at her in amazement. "What do you mean?" she asked.
Tegan was sitting, too, blinking at Pete as if he were a stranger, and Dorfman was trembling like a leaf. Pete stared about him through the dim light, and then looked where Tegan was pointing at the end of the room. He couldn't see it clearly, at first. Finally, he made out a raised platform with four steps leading up.
Years of this kind of fighting had given him a just estimate of the immense value of time, and he had forty-eight hours left in which to get control of the Tillman City stock. Campaigns have been lost and won again in less time than that. When the bell-boy brought up the editor's card Jim stared at it a moment, then told the boy to show him in.
For I knew that, anyway we looked, only danger stared back at us now, on every hand. I looked at the woman I loved, and self-reproach was in my soul, as I saw a shudder go across her form. She was pale, but beyond a swift look at me made no sign connecting me, either with the wreck or the rescue.
A young silver poplar looked ghastly in the distance; and now and then a tree out off by a shot looked almost human in its mutilation. He had not gone very far before he saw what appeared to be the body of a man lying across the road. With a sudden chill of blood he stopped and stared at the object. Gradually it resolved itself into a low mound in the dim light.
But I must have a bath and a big can and somebody must show me where to go for water and then then, my dear if you make yourself agreeable, I'll well, I'll teach you how to do your hair on Sundays in a way that will surprise you!" The girl stared at her in sudden astonishment, her dark stupid eyes wavering.
Thus, in a while the trembling citizens of Belsaye, starting from their slumber, stared in pallid amaze beholding afar a great and fiery gibbet whose flames, leaping heavenward, seemed to quench the moon.
'I didn't meet her. I went to see her. I spent two hours with her. Cecil stared in silent amazement. 'It was my fourth visit, said Lord Selsey. 'You spent all that time talking over my affairs? His uncle gave a slight smile. 'Indeed not, Cecil. After the first few minutes of the first visit, frankly, we said very little about you. 'But I don't understand.
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