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Of what next happened I have no recollection, nor of anything but my friend's poor stupid cousin, in a darkened room, after an interval that I suppose very brief, sobbing at me in a smothered accusatory way.
It seemed as if some suspense common to all held them speechless, if not dumbly apprehensive; and while the lawyer said nothing in recognition of this, he could not have been quite blind to it, for he bestowed one curious glance around the table before he proceeded with old Anthony's words. Those words had now become short, sharp, and accusatory.
She went astern of us fast, and a great comber ran at her, as if it had but just spied her, and thought she was escaping. There was a high white flash, and a concussion we heard. She had gone. But she appeared again far away, on a summit in desolation, black against the sunset. The stump of her bowsprit, the accusatory finger of the dead, pointed at the sky.
Happily, the accusatory part of such exhortations is becoming, we trust we may say fast becoming, less extensively applicable; and we return with pleasure to the animating idea of that revolution of which we were noting the introductory signs.
The resolution of the House, so far as it is accusatory of the President, is confined to an inquiry whether he had used corrupt or improper means to influence the action of Congress or any of its committees on legislative measures pending before them nothing more, nothing less.
After any and every attack he would be swiftly on his feet, hurling forth fresh accusatory words and ignoring the punishment he had just received would be himself the scourger of sin. Sometimes he even took to imitating Chamberlain's own methods, and pointing a finger at his distinguished victim, would hiss out his charges word by word with a vibrant slowness.
A light column of smoke was still ascending to the heavens. All made comments more or less pious, more or less accusatory. "Poor young man!" exclaimed an old man, the husband of Puté. "Yes!" replied his wife. "But he did not order a mass for the soul of his father, who undoubtedly needs it more than others." "But wife, you don't have any pity...." "Sympathy for the excommunicated?
'Which is exactly what Peter, Mrs Mallow gaily returned 'why in the world were you so perverse, Peter? wouldn't, when he told him, hear of. Peter, when this lady looked at him with accusatory affection a grace on her part not infrequent could never find a word; but the Master, who was always all amenity and tact, helped him out now as he had often helped him before.
Ferguson would never take more than one boy. Two might begin larking, and you simply must not lark in a balloon." Dick thought of a joke about larks and balloons, but decided that it was not a really first-class joke and merely shook an accusatory head at boys and their reprehensible ways.
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