United States or Switzerland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The sobs decreased at once broke out more violently and then she sprang up from the bunk, face suffused, and eyes timidly seeking his with upward glances. "Pierre, I've acted a regular chump. Are you out with me?" "Not a bit, old-timer. But about this glove?" "Oh, that's one of mine." She took it and slipped it into the bosom of her shirt the calm blue eye of Pierre noted.
The eyes of Eve were brilliant, her face continued to be suffused, and the smile which she gave through her tears was so bright, as to leave her poor attendant in deep perplexity as to the cause of a gush of feeling that was very unusual in one of the other's regulated mind. "It is not grief, dear Nanny," Eve at length murmured "any thing but that! I am not unhappy.
The light in his eyes flamed up, died down, flamed up again, and presently it covered all his face, as he grasped what she meant. "Wonder of God, do you forget?" he asked. "I am married married still, Virginie Poucette. There is no divorce in the Catholic Church no, none at all. It is for ever and ever." "I said nothing about marriage," she said bravely, though her face suffused.
Each pocket in his coat was slapped and plunged into with vehement haste, while drops of cold perspiration stood on his forehead. It was not to be found. Suddenly he recollected the basket at his back: wrenching it open, he found the book there, and joy again suffused his visage.
Dixie said, laying her disengaged hand gently on his arm, her own face suffused with a faint glow of uncontrollable tenderness. "I'm only a girl a natural one, Alfred and I'm so hungry for love that I try to make you say those things, wrong as they may be. Don't you know when I'm joking? Listen and I'll tell you the truth. I wrote Jasper Long that it was all right about what he'd tried to do.
"Wait a moment and I will let you in," he replied, and asked, "I suppose you can wait a little while?" "It is very urgent, excellency you had better open at once." The Count sprang up from his bed and drew the curtains back from the window. A warm glow of sunlight instantly suffused the cold room and warmed it with welcome beams.
Her face made the catastrophe all too evident. She had heard him. She had, he felt convinced, crept quietly back and stood to listen before entering. His memory reconstructed the long pause between the departing rustle and this apparition. Madame von Marwitz's face had its curious look of smothered heat. The whites of her eyes were suffused though her cheeks were pale.
It will easily be supposed I did not let her wait, but advancing towards her, I was seized with such a trembling, that having filled the glass too full, I spilled some of the water on her plate, and even on herself. Her brother asked me, giddily, why I trembled thus? This question increased my confusion, while the face of Mademoiselle de Breil was suffused with a crimson blush.
He was too much suffused with joy over his release from his long blindness and with the splendor of the new world about him to feel sadness. For a while nothing can weigh down the blind who see again. It was surely the finest valley in the world into which they had come! Heraka gave the word and he and his men rode forward toward the strip of wood that he had indicated.
With a heart not without emotion; with a kindling cheek, and eyes suffused with tears, Sybil read the speech of Egremont. She ceased; still holding the paper with one hand, she laid on it the other with tenderness, and looked up to breathe as it were for relief. Before her stood the orator himself. Egremont had recognized Sybil as she entered the garden.
Word Of The Day