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Were we to fail on the very brink of success? No! He got up again abruptly. "How the devil am I to sleep," he said, "with THIS on my mind?" He looked at the light, burning on the table at the head of his bed. After a moment, he took the candle in his hand. I blew out the second candle, burning behind the closed curtains. I drew back, with Mr.
Adams rose abruptly and left the room, saying something about a letter which she must write in time for the next mail. Aunt Jane could be exasperating at times, as even her younger sister was forced to admit, and occasionally she was driven to the necessity of running away from her, rather than yield to the temptation of answering sharp words with sharper. Mrs.
"If I shall not be Monsieur de Trop, I will so gladly see them all. You haf been ill, my friend?" He put the question abruptly, for, as Jo hung up his coat, the light fell on her face, and he saw a change in it. "Not ill, but tired and sorrowful. We have had trouble since I saw you last." "Ah, yes, I know.
The countess saw, however, that she alone was the object of these attentions. The hatred of the father for his son showed itself in every detail; he abstained from looking at him or touching him; he would rise abruptly and leave the room if the child cried; in short, he seemed to endure it living only through the hope of seeing it die. But even this self-restraint was galling to the count.
"I think I will," said the other, and turned back abruptly. "How long do you work in the day?" "Generally, all the hours of light," Crickledon replied; "and always up to supper-time." "You're healthy and happy?" "Nothing to complain of." "Good appetite?" "Pretty regular." "You never take a holiday?" "Except Sundays." "You'd like to be working then?" "I won't say that."
"What is hard, beloved?" She raised her head abruptly, and turned upon him a gaze full of hope and doubt, and sweet perplexity. "Ah, no, you do not love me," she whispered, sadly. "Why should I come to seek you, after these many years, dearest, if I did not wish to make you my wife before God and men? Why should I "
He shivered with a sudden and irresistible feeling of fear, and abruptly turned and looked towards the hook in the ceiling. Yes, It was there. He knew that It would be.
"What do I care? your head runs on young ladies," answered Darrell, with peevish vivacity, as he stopped abruptly at Carr Vipont's door. "And your feet do not seem to run from them," said the Colonel; and, with an ironical salute, walked away, while the expanding portals engulfed his friend. As he sauntered up St.
He knew the risk he was running, he knew that there are eyes and ears all over the place, and the chances were ninety to one he would be put out of the way he hinted as much in his letter. Now then, I'm going to put my back into the business, and if I don't find out something about this cocaine smuggling, I'll I'll " he reflected for a moment and added abruptly, "never go to another dance!
She made me sit down by her, and spoke to this purpose; Dear sir, said she, do not be surprised that I left you so abruptly: I thought it not proper, before that merchant, to give a favourable answer to the discovery you made of your affection for me.
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