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You did not learn anything from him, but I can tell you my cousin Sisily is innocent." He brought out these words with a breathlessness which may have been the result of his haste. The calmness of the lawyer's reply was in marked contrast. "Is this merely an assertion, Mr. Turold?" "It is more than an assertion. I can prove it to you." Mr. Brimsdown was startled.
"No; it's no lie," said Morris, with a sob half of breathlessness and half of sorrow; "I seen her for sure. Und the man carries umbrellas over her mit loving looks." "Ah, g'wan," drawled Patrick; "you're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about." "Sure do I," cried Morris. "I had once a auntie what was loving mit a awful stylish salesman he's now floorwalkers und I see how they makes."
It was so still in the room that it might have been empty. The breathlessness of the air increased, so that it was horribly oppressive. Suddenly there was a loud rattle of thunder, and a flash of lightning tore across the heavy clouds. Susie thanked Heaven for the storm which would give presently a welcome freshness.
To the awe of all beholders, Lahiri Mahasaya's habitual physiological state exhibited the superhuman features of breathlessness, sleeplessness, cessation of pulse and heartbeat, calm eyes unblinking for hours, and a profound aura of peace. No visitors departed without upliftment of spirit; all knew they had received the silent blessing of a true man of God.
The breathlessness due to dancing, the trembling of intense excitement and her rapid descent, caused her to shake from head to foot, and her floating ribbons, her ruffles, her flowers, her rich and fashionable attire drooped tragically about her. Risler followed her, laden with jewel-cases, caskets, and papers.
"Until you knew me?" she asked, in quick, quivering tones. "Till I knew you," he answered. "Then I have done you good not ill?" she asked, with painful breathlessness. "The only good there may be in me is you, and you only," he said, and he choked something rising in his throat, seeing the greatness of her heart, her dear desire to have entered into his life to his own good.
It was such a night as comes in summer after perfect weather, frightening in its heat, and silence, which was broken by the distant thunder travelling low along the ground like the muttering of all dark places on the earth such a night as seems, by very breathlessness, to smother life, and with its fateful threats to justify man's cowardice. The ladies rose at last.
I sprang to my feet and exclaimed, 'That is it that is it! and I ran hastily down to the study. Miss Penstock was alone there. She looked up in surprise at my breathlessness and my red eyes. I knelt down by her side and took the work out of her hands. "'Dear Miss Penstock, said I, 'would you rent part of your house?
"Here comes mother," she said, with a sort of breathlessness, as if speaking her thought aloud, and through the open door the Marches could see the old lady on the stairs. She paused half-way down, and turning, called up: "Coonrod! Coonrod! You bring my shawl down with you." Her daughter Mela called out to her, "Now, mother, Christine 'll give it to you for not sending Mike."
The intensity of his listening attitude seemed to hush into breathlessness the very night about him, as it did Sylvia. There was not a sound from the trees. They stood motionless, as though carved in wood; not a bird fluttered a wing; not a night-insect shrilled; the brook, dried by the summer heat to a thread, crept by noiselessly.
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