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He tenderly passed his arm around the girl and touched his lips to her forehead. "It was not that I doubted you, Nellie," he said, "but that Vose might know the full truth." Then turning to the guide, he asked: "Do you still advise her to leave me?" Vose Adams was unaccustomed to scenes like this. He moved about uneasily, coughed, cleared his throat, and for a few minutes was at a loss for words.
Selingman strolled towards him. "How go things, friend Allen?" he enquired, dropping his voice a little. The man glanced uneasily around. There was, however, no one in his immediate vicinity. "Badly," he admitted. "Still no success, eh?" Selingman asked, drawing up a chair and seating himself. "The man is secretive by nature," was the gloomy reply.
"Nothing," she said, fixing her dark eyes upon him with a sad expression, "nothing at all!" "Aha! you do not want to tell me," exclaimed Blucher, looking at her uneasily, "but I know it nevertheless. Yes, I know what ails you, and why you are in bad humor with me. Will you give me a kiss, if I guess what it is?" She nodded, and an almost imperceptible smile played around her finely-formed lips.
He went to the window and looked uneasily up and down the street. Clara pressed her hands upon her head and stared at him like one distracted. 'Where is she? came from her involuntarily. 'Don't be a fool, woman! he replied, walking to the door. She sprang to hold him. Instead of repulsing her, he folded his arm about her waist and kissed her lips two or three times.
There was a glint of anger in Radnor's eyes; and I was uneasily aware that he no longer cared what impression he made. His answers to the rest of the questions were as short as the English language permitted. "What did you do after leaving the cave?" "Went home." "Please go into more detail. What did you do immediately after leaving the cave?" "Strolled through the woods." "For how long?"
I said that, did I?" murmured D'Artagnan, uneasily. "Yes, those very words, upon my honor." "Well, what else? You know the saying, Planchet, 'dreams go by contraries." "Not so; for every time, during the last three days, when you went out, you have not once failed to ask me, on your return, 'Have you seen M. d'Herblay? or else 'Have you received any letters for me from M. d'Herblay?"
The junior partner was silent, and the remaining clerks were working uneasily, not exactly knowing whether they might not presently be included in the indictment. Their fears were terminated, however, by the sharp sound of a table-gong and the appearance of a boy with the announcement that Mr. Girdlestone would like a moment's conversation with Mr. Ezra.
Through that space he could see across the yard to the fence running round the allotment, and beyond it to the dark line of the bush, rendered the darker at the moment by the soft sheen of the rising moon showing above it. A silence followed his movement, a silence during which she fidgeted uneasily and impatiently. "You do not answer," she said presently. "Shall I go on?"
He laughed uneasily, and tried to make light of it, talking of reports, and inferences, and so on; but my mother, well assured that there was no such scandal, drove him up into a corner, and made him confess that he had heard nothing but from Madame Croquelebois. My mother then insisted on that lady being called for, sending her own sedan chair to bring her.
The sun-beams danced on the dusty floor and the light came dimly through the cobwebs. Velasco lay with his arm under his head, his young limbs stretched in the straw, asleep. He murmured and tossed uneasily. There was a flush on his face; his dark hair fell over his brows and teased him, and he flung it back, half unconscious. Kaya covered him with the blanket, kneeling beside him in the straw.
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