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He had heard about it before he saw your stuff, though no official account was allowed to get through; and he gave me some rather interesting information, quite gratuitously." "Does it concern me, or any one I know?" I asked, steadying my voice with an effort. "Well, not precisely; since you only know the lady by repute, and by her portrait."
Steadying herself against the fence, she drew her purse from her muff, and she had already taken out a piece of silver, when she heard her name called in a voice which sounded vaguely familiar, though it awoke no immediate associations in her mind. "Gabriella! My God! I was looking for you, Gabriella!" With the money still in her hand, she stooped to look into his face. "You don't know me.
"Not just yet, I think. They may be needed for evidence when the constable comes. Now...." He crossed over to where the bodies lay, and gently removed the covering. Merriton went suddenly white, while the doctor, more used to such sights, bit his lips and laid a steadying hand upon the younger man's arm. "My God!" cried Sir Nigel, despairingly. "How did they meet their death?"
And so, unobserved, Dickie slipped out of the security of his armchair, and rose to that sadly deficient full height of his. He was nervous, and this rendered his balance more than ever uncertain. He shuffled forward, steadying himself by a piece of furniture here and there in passing, until he reached the wide open space before the door on to the stair-head.
The ship, missing the steadying power of the wind, rolled heavily in the troughs of the seas, which, however began to be more diminutive, at each instant, as though the startled element was recalling, into the security of its own vast bosom, that portion of its particles which had, just before, been permitted to gambol so madly over its surface.
They were under shelter of a sand bank from the wind and sun. "A think, Wayland, this is nearly my jumping off place altogether." Matthews spoke feebly. On pretense of steadying the fagged broncho, the Ranger helped him to dismount. Then, Wayland unsaddled and drew the water bag from the pack trees. He handed it over to the old man. Matthews pushed it aside: "Keep it for yourself to-morrow.
"And would it come true for another boy any boy who went a-tramping off like that? Would he find whatever he was wishin' for?" And even as he spoke his eyes left hers and went searching for the far-away hills and what might lie beyond. "Come here, little lad." Patsy drew him to her and put two steadying hands on his shoulders.
Silence answered his look though it was only by a glance of subtlest sympathy confirmed my impression. "We may be ready now," I heard him say in a whisper, and I understood that his words were intended as a steadying warning, and braced myself mentally to the utmost of my power.
The tardy dawn, however, made its appearance at last, reluctantly, as it seemed to those drenched and weary watchers, and the moment that there was light enough to enable him to see distinctly Captain Staunton staggered to his feet, and steadying himself by grasping the boat's main-mast, took a long anxious look all round the horizon.
"Come, that is already a step towards the happiness I promised you." "And the baron, what sort of a man is he?" "A perfect gentleman, a preux chevalier, who, had he lived in King Arthur's time, would have had a place at his round table." "And," said Bussy, steadying his voice, "to whom is his daughter married?" "Diana married?" "Would that be extraordinary?"
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