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At length, when he had been thus engaged for about an hour, and had travelled a distance of about two miles, a somewhat stronger light away on his right front conveyed to him the welcome intimation that such an open glade as he sought was at hand; and ten minutes later he emerged from the forest to find himself confronted by a scene of so extraordinary a character that he halted abruptly and rubbed his eyes, uncertain for the moment whether what he beheld was reality or the effect of a disordered imagination.
Not a footstep could be heard. Then slowly we walked on. At the edge of the little coppice we stopped again abruptly. Smith turned and thrust his pistol into my hand. A white ray of light pierced the shadows; my companion carried an electric torch. But no trace of Eltham was discoverable.
Kitty was in so much excitement after this conversation that when she reached the Campo San Maurizio, where she should have turned abruptly to the left, she wandered awhile up and down the campo, looking at the gondolas on the Traghetto between it and the Accademia, at the Church of San Maurizio, at the rising moon, and the bright lights in some of the shop windows of the small streets to the north.
Felix was sure he was secretly struck with the romance of the situation. "I think this is none of our business," the young minister murmured. "None of mine, perhaps; but surely yours!" Mr. Brand lingered still, looking at the ceiling; there was evidently something he wanted to say. "What do you mean by Miss Gertrude being strong?" he asked abruptly.
I wonder whether this woman expects me to tell her who I am? That will amount to an acquaintance. She is certainly somebody, or she would not be here. On the other hand, she seems to dislike the only man I know besides Gouache. That may lead to complications. Let us talk of Gouache first, and be guided by circumstances." "Do you know Monsieur Gouache?" she inquired, abruptly. "The painter?
Now I jumped up and approached the window, now I began to walk back and forth, staggering as if I hoped to make the train go faster by my efforts, and the car with its seats and its windows trembled continually, as ours does now." And Posdnicheff rose abruptly, took a few steps, and sat down again. "Oh, I am afraid, I am afraid of railway carriages. Fear seizes me.
And his efforts were cut short abruptly. "Jacky ought to marry," Lablache said without preamble. "One never knows what may happen. A good husband a man with money and business capacity, would be a great help to you, and would assure her future." Lablache had touched upon the one strong point which remained in John Allandale's character.
I had arrived then, at last, within the confines of civilization, and my career as a savage, was about to be abruptly terminated.
A message was brought to Cosin that required him to quit the room, and Alice and Tournier were left alone. "Do you know, Miss Cosin, what it was that forced me at last to come and see your brother?" "Indeed, I do not," she replied, a little surprised at the earnestness with which he so abruptly asked the question. "It was misery.
There was, too, a certain familiarity in his voice and manner which she would have resented in a younger man but which, somehow, she had to submit to. She stopped abruptly as they came to a steep rock. "Please go on ahead," she said with an appealing look in her brown eyes, as he put out his hand to help her down. "I can get down very well myself."
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