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It was as if she lay prostrated by some wave of agony which had just passed over her; her breath was faint and rapid, and great drops of sweat stood out upon her young drawn face. Tom drew a chair forward and sat down beside her. He lifted one of her hands, touching it gently, but save for a slight quiver of the eyelids she did not stir. A sense of awe fell upon him.
"Has she been asleep ever since I went?" inquired Harry, in a whisper. "Yes, sir." "Poor little girl. Well, it will be livelier by-and-by for you. We'll have company, and more going on." Harry then went close to Mrs. Addix, sitting with her head resting on her shoulder, still snoring with those puffs of heavy breath. "Mrs. Addix," he said. Mrs. Addix did not stir; she continued to snore. "Mrs.
The dark shape, walking almost without a sound, shaved his body so closely as it passed that he felt the stir of the air against his face. When the men had gone on a few yards Racey looked over his shoulder. Silhouetted against the streak of dying red was the upper half of Jack Harpe's torso. There was no mistaking the set of that head and those shoulders. Both it and them were unmistakable.
It was removed at ten sharp to the accountant's room, and if you reached the bank a certain number of times in the year too late to sign, bang went your bonus. After a while things began to settle down. The stir and confusion gradually ceased. All down the length of the bank, figures could be seen, seated on stools and writing hieroglyphics in large letters.
"It wasn't you alone." Pavel smiled; Rybin also. The mother sniffed, and walked away, somewhat offended because they did not pay attention to her words. "Those leaflets are well thought out. They stir the people up. There were twelve of them, weren't there?" "Yes." "I have read them all! Yes, yes. Sometimes they are not clear, and some things are superfluous.
"If that's a gratis patient," said he, between his teeth, "I'll not stir. From eight to ten are their hours, confound them!" "If you please, sir," said Mary, peeping in, "if you please, sir, it's a gentleman." "A stranger?" asked my father. Mary nodded, put her hand to her mouth, and burst into an irrepressible giggle. "If you please, sir," she began but could get no farther.
When this firm starts a clothing house, they make a great stir in the city. They advertise in such strong and emphatic way that the people are haunted with the matter, and dream about it, and go round the block to avoid that store door, lest they be persuaded in and induced to buy something they cannot afford.
She did not make a sound, she did not stir, she was not sobbing; she remained there, perfectly still, all black against the white wall, a silent figure of passionate piety. I am sure she was no more frightened than the other white-faced ladies I met carrying bandages. One was sitting on the top step tearing a piece of linen hastily into strips the young wife of an elderly man of fortune here.
I went in and saw the surgeon labor awhile, but could not enjoy; it was much less trying to see the wounds given and received than to see them mended; the stir and turmoil, and the music of the steel, were wanting here one's nerves were wrung by this grisly spectacle, whilst the duel's compensating pleasurable thrill was lacking.
There was a huge heap of loose hay on the ground, fully ten feet high, but she was nowhere to be seen in it. Nor did she speak or stir. "Great Lord, I'm afraid it's killed her!" Elder Witham exclaimed. Jim and Asa stood horrified, and the girls burst out crying. The old Squire had turned white. "Ruth! Ruth!" he cried. "Are you badly hurt? Do you hear? Can't you answer?"
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