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"I want the Revolution." Turnbull looked at the fire-swept sky and the wind-stricken woodlands, and kept on repeating the word voicelessly to himself the word that did indeed so thoroughly express his mood of rage as it had been among those red clouds and rocking tree-tops. "Revolution!" he said to himself.
Peter loosened his hold with a cry almost of terror at the light in those eyes. He thought he had seen Cad Sills staring at him. There was no time to verify such notions. Day Rackby had seen Jethro on his knees, imploring her, voicelessly, with his mysterious right reason, which said, plainer than words, that the touch of Peter's lips was poison to her soul.
Yet she bit back the scream lest it should startle him, every muscle of her body rigid with the effort that her silence cost her. Seven stairs more! Six! Sara's lips were moving voicelessly. She was whispering rapidly over and over again "God! God! God! Keep him safe! . . . You can do it. . . . Don't let him fall. . . ." Five! Only five steps more! "Hold up the stairs! . . . God!
And at the mere word the criminal Northover suddenly fell into his great office chair and shouted with a volleying laughter. "Oh! it's too perfect it's too exquisite," he gasped, beating the arms with his fists. He was laughing deafeningly; Basil Grant was laughing voicelessly; and the rest of us only felt that our heads were like weathercocks in a whirlwind.
It was a silence where the breaking of a twig, the rustle of the soft, rotting vegetation, inches deep upon the ground, might indicate the prowling approach of famished wolf or scavenging coyote, the stealing of wildcat or even of the deadly puma. The minutes passed as the two women stood voicelessly at the grave side. That which was passing in their minds was their own.
He reached out a crumpled piece of paper to his cousin, who took it from him, and, after a single glance at it, started again, and, pale as he was already, grew still paler. 'He knows those three, said the General, voicelessly, and without a spoken word reached forward and took the crumpled page from Jervase's unresisting hand.
Here and thus, jutting a couple of feet from the wall against which its feet rested as a support, the creature had for four hundred years laughed at the surrounding landscape, voicelessly in dry weather, and in wet with a gurgling and snorting sound. Troy slept on in the porch, and the rain increased outside. Presently the gurgoyle spat.
They were sitting together on the wide window-seat, the sound of the traffic from below coming murmuringly to their ears like some muted diapason. "Nan" Peter spoke very quietly "Nan was he the man?" She nodded voicelessly. Peter made a quick gesture as though to lay his hand over hers, then checked it abruptly. "My dear," he said, "do you still care?"
I will spare you all further pain on the same score, if possible. Dear Miss Ringgan, since I am here, and time is precious, may I say one word before I cease troubling you? I take it for granted that you were made acquainted with the contents of my letter to Mrs. Rossitur? with all the contents? were you?" Again Fleda's lips almost voicelessly gave the answer.
Hawthorne sat in his little room under the eaves reading, studying, voicelessly communing with himself through his own journal, or mastered by some wild suggestion or mysterious speculation feeling his way through the twilight of dreams, into the dusky chambers of that house of thought whose haunted interior none but himself ever visited.
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