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"But how? ... how?" she reiterated, puzzled, anxious, scenting some nefarious scheme more unavowable even than the last. "Ah! time will show! ... But he will vanish, my dear Editha, take my word on it. Shall we say that he will fly up into the clouds and her Highness the Princess will know him no more?"
He was at once stupefied and filled with tumultuous emotions, states apparently incompatible, yet sometimes co-existent. He recognized her. Her eyes were closed, but her face was turned towards him. It was the duchess she, the mysterious being in whom all the splendours of the unknown were united; she who had occasioned him so many unavowable dreams; she who had written him so strange a letter!
Her white neck, her round fore-arms, her thin wrists, irresistibly attracted a caress. He could not keep his hands off her and it distressed and worried him whenever he saw anybody else doing quite innocently what he did with an unavowable purpose. Perhaps this was the real cause of his dislike for the new pastor. After Mr.
The breeze itself was lulled and the fog gathered itself together and wrapped the unavowable horrors of the night in a gray and ghoul-like shroud. Madness lurked in the eyes of the sacrilegious murderer. Madness which helped him not only to carry his grim task to the end, but, having accomplished it, to see that it was well done.
Not a sound now disturbed the stillness of the night save when a bat fluttered overhead, or when furtive footsteps on unavowable errand bent glided softly off the beaten track and quickly died away among the shadows. The praefect walked on, heedless of his surroundings.
No humility awoke in her; she felt the stirring of envies, avidities, unavowable passions, and let them flourish unrebuked. Crewe had his eyes fixed upon her; his lips parted hungrily. 'Now that's how I should like to see you painted, he said all at once. 'Just like that! I never saw you looking so well. I believe you're the most beautiful girl to be found anywhere in this London!
The injury to her pride was healed, and in the thought that perforce she must answer with a final 'No', she found at first more of solace than of distress. Subsidence of physical suffering allowed her to forget this emotion, in its nature unavowable.
A third person, whose vanity was not concerned, might moralise thus Will checked himself on an unpleasant thought. Was his vanity, in truth, unconcerned in this story? Why, then, had he been conscious of a sub-emotion, quite unavowable, which contradicted his indignant sympathy during that talk last night in the street?
'I can devise no other explanation. 'But I can't see that it would be an explanation at all. Grant even something unavowable, you know are we Puritans? How could it harm him, at all events, to let us know his whereabouts? No such mystery ever came into my experience. It is too bad of Peak; it's confoundedly unkind.
"Surely not," quoth de Chavasse, as he finally went out of the room. The mist had not lifted. Over the sea it hung heavy and dank like a huge sheet of gray thrown over things secret and unavowable. It was thickest down in the bay lurking in the crevices of the chalk, in the great caverns and mighty architecture carved by the patient toil of the billows in the solid mass of the cliffs.
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