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Vansittart; charm she never so wisely, could not brush the frown of anxiety from his brow. He was in no mood for love-making, and men cannot call up this fleeting humour, as a woman can, when it is wanted. So they sat and talked of many things, both glancing at the clock with a surreptitious eye.
Forgive me then, sir, in thus abruptly requesting your name." The lieutenant looked surprised at the anxiety and looks of the stranger, and he answered "My name is Charles Sim." "Yes! yes!" replied the colonel, gasping as he spoke; "I saw it; I felt it! Your name is Charles, but not Sim; that was your mother's name your sainted mother's. You bear it from your grandfather You come from Cumberland?"
She ran into the inner room, and then I heard her going lightly upstairs. She came down in a moment with color in her face and with some agitation in her manner. She seized me by the sleeve in a way that no man would have thought of, exclaiming, "Let us go at once come!" Her sudden anxiety to be off took me entirely by surprise. "You have a horse?" I said, hearing the jingling of her spurs.
"I felt a little squeamish for a day or two after leaving Melbourne," I replied, "but I soon got over it, and it was not very bad even while it lasted. I am a tolerably good sailor." "And you have had no special ground of anxiety of late? At least not until you received this wonderful letter" he added, with a perceptible contraction of his lips, as though trying to repress a smile.
He felt that she had not come from the other side of the river just to dine with Temple. He knew she had been looking for him. And the temptation assailed him to reward her tender anxiety by devoting himself wholly to Betty. Then he remembered what he had let Betty believe, as to the relations in which he stood to this other woman. His face lighted up with a smile of answering tenderness.
I was to think of you as being utterly unworthy to become a good man's wife." "If you had done so a great deal of trouble and anxiety would have been saved, Phil." "Yes, but I declined to do anything of the kind," Berrington said eagerly. "I knew that in some way you were sacrificing yourself for others. And when I found that your brother had gone, I felt absolutely certain of it."
Speaking of Jackson, he says, "Such was his ardor, at this critical moment, and his anxiety to penetrate the movements of the enemy, doubly screened as they were by the dense forest and gathering darkness, that he rode ahead of his skirmishers, and exposed himself to a close and dangerous fire from the enemy's sharpshooters, posted in the timber.
He had every aptitude in full measure, and all that remained was to subscribe to the correspondence course. He had felt weak in the moment of his relief from this torturing anxiety. Suppose they had told him that he wouldn't do? And he had studied the lessons with unswerving determination. Night and day he had held to his ideal. He knew that when you did this your hour was bound to come.
My only quarrel with him here if it was a quarrel was that in his anxiety to support what he believed to be the cause of the people he was in effect anti-democratic. On this point I was wont to chaff him, for there was no man with whom you could more easily argue without hurting his feelings.
My father grunted. "Did Madame de Ferrier say 'the young gentleman?" Skenedonk inquired. "I was told to inquire. I am her servant Ernestine," said the woman, her face creased with the anxiety of responding to questions. "Tell Madame de Ferrier that the young gentleman is much better, and will go home to the lodges to-day."
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