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Your Majesty fills it with his glory, his power; and there the word 'monsieur, means 'my beloved lord." She unclasped her hands, and with a pretty gesture pointed to her heart. Marie thought the moment favorable; she ventured a few kisses, which Charles allowed rather than accepted, then she said softly:
Back from watching its retreat, my eyes returned to her face, now strangely clouded with trouble; her eyes dropped before mine, while the palms of her hands were pressed together, and the fingers clasped and unclasped alternately. How different she seemed now; the brilliant face grown so pallid and vague-looking!
It was a queenly presence tall, graceful, and intensely womanly. "Mr. Holmes," she said and her white-gloved hands clasped and unclasped as she spoke "I will speak frankly to you in the hopes that it may induce you to speak frankly in return. There is complete confidence between my husband and me on all matters save one. That one is politics. On this his lips are sealed. He tells me nothing.
"Home!" the pale lips writhed in withering derision. "Yes, home, Molly," he spoke as one might to a much-loved and unreasonable sick child with infinite tenderness and compassion "your own warm home, with your sister. You would like to go to Madeleine, would not you?" She unclasped her hands and threw them out before her with a savage gesture of repulsion.
It was sullen obstinacy, not doubt of the other's purpose, that paralyzed him. "Unlimber! It's the last call." With a snarl the scout unclasped his army belt, dropped it to the ground, and sullenly kicked it over toward Hampton. "Now now you, you gray-eyed devil, kin I sit up?" The other nodded.
What hath come upon thee?" Again it was the voice of the shrill Elder. "Judge me by the truth I speak," he answered. "Save in these things my life has been an unclasped book for all to read." "Speak to the charge of brawling and drink, David," rejoined the little Elder Meacham with the high collar and gaze upon the ceiling. "Shall I not speak when I am moved?
"I don't like the idea," she said. Mr. Pratt miserably clasped and unclasped his hands.
His lips were drawn back over his teeth in something that was neither a snarl nor a smile. His eyes were bulging and fear-stricken, and his hands clasped and unclasped themselves nervously. "I I " he faltered, "do you want to send me out without a cent?" "Without a cent, without a cent," said Fairfax tensely. "I won't do it," the rat in him again showed fight. "I won't do it.
She took his hands and looked up into his face with such poignant longing and tenderness, that Jack's comrades, already uncomfortable enough, were quite overborne by the scene. Tough old Hatch snuffled audibly, and Brady could hardly speak. "Come, come, lad," he cried huskily, "you mustn't keep us longer!" Jack unclasped the girl's hands and suffered himself to be led away by his comrades.
Weary of killing, or influenced by that superstition which sometimes rules the soul from which religion is wholly banished, they did not avail themselves of their swords. With fierce threats they unclasped his arm from that senseless form, which sank instantly to the floor at his feet, and drew him across the room.
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