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"I don't understand why Martin should behave this way! Why should he just sit there with his eyes closed and ignore us both?" The doctor comforted her in a warmly professional manner, then, as her tears subsided, he said: "We don't understand all of the factors ourselves, Mrs. Stanton. Martin's reactions are, I admit, unusual.

My wife's alarm subsided, and although she still manifestly felt some sort of misgiving about our visitor, she yet listened to his conversation, and, spite of herself, soon began to enjoy it. He stayed for nearly half an hour. But although he glanced at a great variety of topics, he did not approach the subject of religion. As soon as he was gone, my wife delivered judgment upon him in form.

And finally the preacher turned to Jeanne, who had subsided from that start of animation, and was again the subdued and silent prisoner, her heart overwhelmed with many heavy thoughts.

"There is no need, Miss Vanrenen," said Medenham. "I handed her well, sufficient to clear all claims." "You did? But why?" The temptation to explain that he had never seen the girl before that day was strong, but he waived it, and contented himself with saying: "I er can't exactly say force of habit, I imagine." "Is she a friend of yours?" "No." Cynthia subsided into the tonneau.

She would have sent at once to Redware to let his father know where and in what condition he was, but not a single person came near the cottage the whole day, and she dared not leave him before the fever had subsided.

As soon as the titter occasioned by the observation had subsided, a little smirking man with red whiskers, sitting at the bottom of the table, who during the whole of dinner had been endeavouring to obtain a listener to some stories about Sheridan, called, out, with a very patronising air, ‘Alick, what part of speech is be.’ ‘A verb.’ ‘That’s a good boy,’ said Mrs.

A violent thunder-storm, which on the coast is called a tornado, visited them this afternoon, and confined them to the "worst hut's worse room" till it had subsided, and the weather become finer.

He was not a beggar, and, therefore, could not have spent his childhood with the man from whom I had bought him. "I wish you could speak, Dumps," said I, laying down my knife and fork, when about half finished, and looking towards the hearth-rug. One end of him rose a little, the other end wagged gently, but as I made no further remark, both ends subsided.

When he first came to Ireland, he had been very eager to go and see his father's estate, and to judge of the conduct of his agents, and the condition of his tenantry; but this eagerness had subsided, and the design had almost faded from his mind, whilst under the influence of Lady Dashfort's misrepresentations.

The chosen wife of my heart will never torment you, or degrade herself, with paltry struggles for power. Your days shall be happy and honoured: believe me, I speak from my heart." Mrs. Beaumont looked as if her anger had subsided; yet, as if struggling with unusual feelings, she sat silent. Mr.