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Chia Cheng accordingly unclasped the piece of jade from Pao-yue's neck, and handed it to the two divines. The Buddhist priest held it with reverence in the palm of his hand and heaving a deep sigh, "Since our parting," he cried, "at the foot of the Ch'ing Keng peak, about thirteen years have elapsed. How time flies in the mortal world! Thine earthly destiny has not yet been determined.
"Allah!" she whispered, clasping her hands involuntarily. "Where is my path? Show me the way out!" And even as she unclasped her hands, she heard a faint tinkle of coins in the well-worn little bag hanging from her wrist. "Allah has heard!" she murmured to herself, as she fished for a coin.
The dread white poppies are in his outstretched hand the great, nodding white poppies which have come from the dank places and have never known the sun. There is no possible denial. At first, one knows only that the faithful hand has grown cold, then, that it has unclasped. In the intolerable darkness, one fares forth alone on the other fork of the road, too stricken for tears.
She fastened the trinket at her throat, where it acquired a sudden and hitherto unsuspected elegance in the eyes of her lover, and then unclasped it, and held it at arm's-length in front of her before she laid it in its pink cotton receptacle. "I do hope she will be pleased, Frederick," she said, with a soft, contented little sigh.
It was a plump hand, with deep dimples and firm, short fingers. She unclasped it, and stretched out toward him a wet, pink palm. "There!" she said despairingly. "There's the ring." Again David felt his inadequacy to the situation. "Don't you want to wear it?" he hesitated. "It's real pretty. What's that red stone?" "I hate it!" cried Letty viciously. "It's a garnet.
During the reading, broken by feeling and reflective pauses on the chevalier's part, the listeners showed emotion after the nature of each. The Sieur de Mauprat's fingers clasped and unclasped on the top of his cane, little explosions of breath came from his compressed lips, his eyebrows beetled over till the eyes themselves seemed like two glints of flame.
"By then her Grace will have whirled me leagues away.... I would I were a queen. If thou goest to death oh God! we'll not speak of that! Give me that chain of thine." He unclasped it, laid it in her hands. Raising her arms, she drew it over her neck. "Seest thou thy prisoner?" she asked. "Forever thy prisoner!" From its fellow of watchet blue she detached her floating silver sleeve.
Meanwhile the gods themselves lightly unclasped my bands, and muffling my head with the wrap I slid down the smooth lading-plank, and set my breast to the sea and rowed hard with both hands as I swam, and very soon I was out of the water and beyond their reach. Then I went up where there was a thicket, a wood in full leaf, and lay there crouching.
"Nina'll die, or somebody'll die, I know," and the little girl clung sobbing to his neck, when the hour of parting came. Very gently he unclasped her clinging arms; very tenderly he kissed her lips, bidding her give one to Miggie, and then he left her, turning back ere he reached the gate, as a new idea struck him.
The couple unclasped shamefacedly, and the young man, lifting his hat, started to stammer an apology; but Cresswell interrupted him: "Keep your your philandering to the woods, or I shall have you arrested," he said slowly, his face colorless, his lips twitching with anger. "Drive on, John." Miss Taylor felt that her worst suspicions had been confirmed; but Mrs.
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