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The lady, albeit every hour seemed to her a thousand till she should be with him, desiring to give him farther assurance and wishful to perform that which she had promised him, made a show one day of being ailing and being visited after dinner by Nicostratus, with no one in his company but Pyrrhus, she prayed them, by way of allaying her unease, to help her go into the garden.

But back of his debonair gayety Steve nursed a growing unease. He was no longer dressed in the outfit of a cowpuncher, but wore a gray street suit and a Panama straw hat. Culvera had caught only a momentary glance at him the night they had faced each other revolver in hand. Yet the American was morally convinced that given time recognition would flash upon the young Mexican.

For answer Father José nodded. He had no word to offer to dispel the woman's unease, so he hurried away without further spoken word between them. Ailsa Mowbray turned toward the path through the woods at the foot of the hill. As she made her way up towards the Fort her thoughts were painfully busy.

Then, as the glooms of night closed around her, her yearning increased and she called to mind the past and recited also these couplets, "'Tis dark: my transport and unease now gather might and main, * And love-desire provoketh me to wake my wonted pain: The pang of parting takes for ever place within my breast, * And pining makes me desolate in destitution lain.

I'm a human being. And you'll notice molasses catches a heap more flies than vinegar does. I like that Dawson man, and I ain't gonna see him hurt." "Did you tell him it was me up there with a rifle?" There was a hint of unease in the blustery tone. "I didn't tell him nothin'," said Marie. "I ain't no snitch." "Ah-h, you are soft on him," Bull sneered in disgust. "What if I am?" she flared.

Were I in extremest unease and misery, by Allah, I would not accept of thee aught; no, not the worth of a nail-paring! "Men and dogs together are all gone by, * So peace be with all of them! dogs and men! And Allah is All knowing! Again men tell the tale of There was once in the coast-fortress of Alexandria, a Chief of Police, Husam al-Din highs, the sharp Scymitar of the Faith.

She had no light, and could do nothing! Suddenly the old man failed quite apparently from no cause but weakness. The unease of his mind, the haunting of the dread thought of having to part with the chalice, had induced it. He was in his closet one night late into the morning, and the next day did not get up to breakfast He wanted a little rest, he said. In a day he would be well!

And the feeling of unease did not vanish even after he had taken his bath in the queer bath-room, of which the Malfaits were so proud, or later, when he had eaten the excellent breakfast provided for him. On the contrary, the thought of going up to his bed-room, even in broad daylight, filled him with a kind of shrinking fear. He told himself angrily that this kind of thing could not go on.

Hovan sensed the man's unease, remembering stories of human prisoners' behavior. "If you more comfortable that way are, those wear." But he was disappointed. Until now, Steve had been doing quite well. Tarlac hesitated, thinking, then returned the small bundle of clothing to his locker. "I don't think so.

And after a longer while, I did leave that hill of watchfulness to my rear; and was gone onward into the night; yet, as may be known, with a vague unease and trouble to my heart, and a swift and frequent turning to learn surely that no Evil Thing came after me.