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Rutherford was thinking of some one far away, under European skies, and wishing that she were present with him there, to make his happiness complete. And Lyle, with that face of wondrous beauty, yet calm and inscrutable as that of the sphinx, had any power as yet passed over the hidden depths of her woman's nature, and troubled the waters?
And there is something rather strange something, I think, very disquieting in his movements since he left Calcutta. I have had him watched, of course. He came north with one of his own countrymen, and the pair of them have been seen at Cawnpore, at Lucknow, at Delhi." Ralston paused. His face had grown very grave, very troubled. "I am not sure," he said slowly.
And so the poor little fellow went on, his great, disordered brain producing feverish images of terror from which he continually besought "dear good old Jack" to deliver him. When at last he dropped again into a troubled sleep, Jack slipped away and drove up the Risdale cow, and then went back to his breakfast.
Now, although parents must not be impatient at the slow appearance of this feeling in their children, and must not be troubled in its not appearing before its time, they can do much by proper efforts to cultivate its growth, and give it an earlier and a more powerful influence over them than it would otherwise manifest.
After this it laid hold of the River. The lime-trees and the willows and the tamarisks it burned; also the plants that grew in the streams. And the eels and the fishes were sore distressed, twisting hither and thither in the water, being troubled by the breath of Vulcan. So the might of the River was subdued, and he cried aloud, "O Vulcan, no one of the Gods can match himself with thee.
She was silent, and slowly his hand went out to her again, and slowly hers went to meet it, but though her fingers clasped and twined, thrilling in mute passion to his touch, she came no nearer, but watched him from the shadow of her hair with great troubled eyes. "Dear," he said, very humbly, "you do love me still, don't you?" "More than ever." "Then you're not sorry to be my wife?"
A darkness fell upon the troubled woman, and was thicker overhead when her warm blood had drawn her to some acceptance of the philosophy of existence, in a savour of gratification at the prospect of her equal footing with the world while yet she lived.
I had put all my trust in you." "In what faith were you brought up, Elsie? "Brought up? I wasn't brought up. I must make another confession to you?" I saw that she hesitated and was troubled. I began to fear some unpleasant secret or other. "Speak without fear, Elsie. It is safe with me. Trust me." "That I would like to, but see, I know you are a distinguished man of noble birth."
"You didn't ask for it before," said I, colouring to my temples under his troubled eyes. It was Bellairs who broke silence, kindly supplying me with all that I had yet to learn. "Since you know Mr. Dickson's address," said he, plainly burning to be rid of us, "I suppose I need detain you no longer."
The bet was made, and according to a singular but long-established family custom, Tom had to be stake-holder. Hilda became troubled and apprehensive. She hoped that Charlie would lose, and then she hoped that he would win.
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