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She was still in doubt, still standing with her hand in his, half bending over him, but yet half resisting as she bent, when, all suddenly, Harry Heathcote was on the veranda, followed by the two policemen, who had just returned from Boolabong.
The poor woman was bending over her husband's ashes, almost as motionless as they, and her answer was a low cry as she fell across his body in a swoon. Haldane lifted her gently up, and carried her from the room. Crouching at the door of the death-chamber, her eyes dilated with horror, he found poor Amy. "Is mother dead also?" she gasped. "No, Miss Amy. She only needs your care to revive speedily.
A glare of torches and black faces fell upon her eyes with the confusion of a dream: shrinkingly she averted them, and they rested upon what she sought; she saw the features of her cousin bending over her with the misery of love that feels its impotence to save.
She paused at last where the old fantastic trees shut out the view of the ancient ruins; and when, looking round, she saw not those grey gigantic shafts which mortal hand seemed never to have piled together, she breathed more freely. "Speak to me," then said Harold, bending his face to hers; "why this silence?"
Mr Hastings who had before been lying down, sat up, and bending forward, listened with the greatest attention to what Jack was saying. Suddenly he exclaimed in a tone of the deepest interest, rising and coming up to Jack, "Was the name of the craft you sailed in the Bomanjee Horrmarjee?"
To-day, among other questions, he asked, with a meaning smile: 'What of young Egremont's lectures? Has he recommenced? 'The first of the new course is to-night, replied Mr. Tasker, who sat bending a paper-cutter over his leg. Mr. Dalmaine, knowing his secretary, encouraged him to be on easy terms. In truth, he had a liking for Tasker.
And there was a sensation in my breast, a sensation as of bending the knees and bowing the neck not at all unpleasant He stood where I placed him, between my tusks, and one of the hunters, who was a man in authority, called out to him to come away while they killed me.
"How do you do, Mrs Clyde?" said I, straightening myself up, and then bending in feeble attempt at a bow. She said nothing further for the moment, thinking it best to leave the burden of the conversation on me, so as to better promote my ease of manner and general welfare, in a "company" light. She was dexterous in fence, was Mrs Clyde.
She was walking slowly, with the little petulant cock of her dainty head which I knew so well, casting her eyes away from him, and shooting out a word from time to time. He paced along beside her, looking down at her and bending his head in the eagerness of his talk.
Catherine," as a religious mystery, is made to combine with the most solemn and formal arrangement of the other attendant figures. The enthroned Virgin presides over the mystical rite. This was, for intelligible reasons, a favourite subject in nunneries. In a picture by Garofalo, the Child, bending from his mother's knee, places a golden crown on the head of St.
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