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"What is that?" A leisurely footfall sounded in the hall, a quiet hand pressed the electric switch by the door, and the room was flooded with light. "Oh, don't!" Chris cried out sharply. "Don't!" She put her hands over her face as if dazzled, and so stood quivering. "What is it?" Mordaunt asked. "Did I startle you?" He came to her. He drew her hands gently down.
Then he knelt on one knee and kissed the hand she held out to him, while desiring him to speak freely to her. "Nay, madam, I fear I shall startle you, when I lay before you the only chance that can aid me to overcome the demon that is in me." "My poor " "Call me your boy, as when I was here seven years ago. Let me sit at your feet as then and listen to me."
She seemed to be waiting for something infinitely comic which yet should startle her. She was poised, half turned as though for flight, yet hung so, without a quiver in an endless listening pause. The man tried in vain to remember the name of a single saint, so held was he by the breathless expectancy in the eyes of the little hobgoblin.
And here I was compelled to sit, idly swinging my legs on the gate, because that abominable fat woman had taken a fancy to keep me by her! "The Saints defend me!" she exclaimed, recovering herself and laughing; "what made you startle me so?"
"Sometimes I half reckon a memory of that blessed boy still makes you glum, my dear. Is it so? Haven't you forgot him yet?" As he spoke an explosion, differing much in sound from those which continued to startle the night, rang suddenly out of the distance. It arose from a spot on the confines of the orchard, and was sharp in tone sharp almost as the human cries which followed it.
Even when undertaken in the conviction of a full harmony of feeling, a community of mind, and an identity of tastes, marriage may startle by the extent of its demands.
Some six and thirty shots, every one of which told, fired suddenly from a cover close to their rear, were enough to startle even the best troops, much more so our Mexican dons, who, already sufficiently inclined to a panic, now believed themselves fallen into an ambuscade, and surrounded on all sides by the incarnate diabolos, as they called us.
But for how long is he monarch, with this flaming menace burning into his courage? The year finishing saw the prophecy fulfilled by the coming of the conqueror. It was this section of the tapestry that, when it came to Paris, had power to startle Napoleon, ever superstitious, ever ready to read signs. The star over Harold's head reminded him of the possible brevity of his own eminence.
Their voices certainly did startle him with something like a familiar sound; but might not this be part of the deep dissimulation dwelt upon with so much emphasis by his learned friend? "I wouldn't have missed this for twenty pounds," said the magistrate, beaming on his guest; "my theories are confirmed to the letter." "We only did it for a lark, sir, and we're awfully sorry," cried the old man.
Where were all the men and women that ought to have protected her and given her support and companionship in this hour? She toiled on in front of him now, her figure braced to its burden. The baby was light, but she carried in addition to it a shawl and a small bag. He longed to go and help her, but he feared to startle or distress her.
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