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"Ah, but you won't forget," she said, ruefully. "One can forgive, but one can't forget what one forgives," and then since, even in her remorse, hope was uppermost with her that night, she cried, "Oh, Hilary, do you think you ever will forget what I wrote to you?" And again Chayne laughed quietly at her fears.
She knew what the woman of the people had felt when she had bruised and mocked and thrown out to the devouring waters that fair and fallen head. "I could do it I could do it," she thought, with the savage instinct of her many-sided nature dominant, leaving uppermost only its ferocity the same ferocity as had moved the southern woman to wreak her hatred on the senseless head of her rival.
A gigantic white figure glimmered opposite to me, and I felt myself suddenly embraced by two strong arms. I cried for help, and struggled so actively to get loose that both myself and my adversary fell to the ground, but so that I lay uppermost. When I again opened my eyes, they met a dazzling blaze of light.
Several times he had talked the matter over with Colonel Harris, but with little satisfaction. The great wrong done to James Ingram, to whom Harris was so largely indebted for the initial and practical knowledge of successfully manufacturing steel rails was uppermost in Reuben Harris's mind as the express hurried him back to Harrisville.
Piloted by the love-sick bibliographer she gradually waddled her way it was uphill work, for both of them into the uppermost strata of local society where, owing to the rarefied atmosphere, her appetite, to say nothing of her person, soon gained notoriety.
'People think a great deal of a dead man now and then in this innocent country, he said once when the grog was uppermost; 'why, I've seen fifty men killed before breakfast, and in cold blood, too, chopped up alive, or next thing to it; and a drove of slaves men, women, and children as big nearly as our mob, handed over to a slave-dealer, and driven off in chains just as you'd start a lot of station cattle.
Could she think that? Could she?" He crossed to the fireplace and stirred the logs with his boot angrily. "Oh! 'Twere too unworthy. Yet of a certainty 'tis her doing, this." "What shall you do?" insisted Lionel, unable to repress the question that was uppermost in his mind; and his voice shook. "Do?" Sir Oliver looked at him over his shoulder. "Prick this bubble, by heaven!
"Blood-thirsty villain!" exclaimed I, unable longer to restrain my indignation "you will swing upon the gallows for this night's work!" "Not so," rejoined Romaine, calmly, "for I do not intend to survive this wholesale butchery, and did not, from the first. I was determined that Anderson should die, at all events. He won the pistol, for the coin fell with the tail uppermost.
"Though I left you to deal with the matter, I kept my eye on him; and my idea is that, while he wouldn't have scrupled much about letting Blake die if it had suited his purpose, as soon as you showed him the danger of that course, his professional feelings came uppermost. In fact, I believe Blake couldn't have got better treatment in Montreal or London.
They stayed that way while you were calling, then the dinghy glided off the one aft still holding his hand over the lad's mouth and kind of choking him with the other." My blood was fairly steaming, and I cried out what was uppermost in my mind: "That wasn't a lad, Gates! It was a girl!" His jaw dropped and he stared at me, but slowly shook his head.
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