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The man behind him hesitated but a second, then gripped his hat against the push of the wind, and began running. Presently men, women, and children were running, all in one direction. The prospective President stood agape upon the platform of his bunting-draped car, his chosen allies grouped foolishly around him.
His face goes whitish green, with an undercurrent of slatey grey running through it. The brilliancy leaves the coal-black eyes, and they become as lifeless and limp as a professional politician at a prayer meeting. The mouth goes agape, the thick lips become flabby, and fall away from the teeth.
Whatever tuneful instrument one of your friends possesses shall solace your slumbers or batter the pate of your enemy. But discourage the habitual serenader. 'The musician you must mean is due here now, by appointment to meet you, said Diana, and set him momentarily agape with the name of Mr. Percy Dacier. That was the origin of the alliance between the young statesman and a newspaper editor.
Ah, I hug this pride in the secret of my heart. I sit on the grass and gaze upon the sky and dream of the sudden splendour of thy coming all the lights ablaze, golden pennons flying over thy car, and they at the roadside standing agape, when they see thee come down from thy seat to raise me from the dust, and set at thy side this ragged beggar girl a-tremble with shame and pride, like a creeper in a summer breeze.
He seemed to me ten years younger as he stood there, and as I dropped my load and went in he was laughing, and his hand was laid pleasantly on my shoulder. Across the cot, with his head stretched down to the floor, his eyes bulging and his jaws agape, lay Joseph Brecht. I sprang to him. He was dead. And then I SAW Gentlemen, he had been choked to death! "He made one leetle meestake, mon pere.
It was a bolt from the blue. Mademoiselle shrank back with a little startled cry. Pechaud stood as one petrified, his jaws agape, and his old hands trembling, whilst De Ganache put himself between me and mademoiselle, his hand on the hilt of his sword. "Stand back!" he said hotly. "Back!" And as hot an answer trembled on my tongue, but I held myself in. "Monsieur, you do not seem to know me.
An old thing is tossed up in a new way, and there are those who attach more value to the way than the thing, and are instantly agape with admiration of originality. But originality and modishness are different things. People who have a right to guide public opinion discern the difference.
"That might be the chimney in question, my gentleman." With a "By your leave, Sor Beppo," Angioletto stepped delicately into the room. He threw down cloak and cap, unstrapped girdle and hanger, stripped off his doublet, and stood up in shirt and breeches. Beppo watched him, all agape, too breathless to chew. Before he could interfere "By the Saints, but he's in!" he cried with arms thrown up.
With this object I have translated a characteristic passage from the tale of Agape .
"Monsieur, you are tiresome," she said. "What is it now?" He took a step toward her, speaking in a low tone, his voice shaking. But, true to himself, he spoke plainly. As for me, I looked on frightened, as though watching a contest, almost agape to see what a clever woman could do. "There is Mademoiselle de St. Gre " "Yes, there is Mademoiselle de St.
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