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What have you done, ever done, that hasn't been FOR me?" "Many things; more than I can tell you things you've only to think of for yourself. What do you make of all that I've done for myself?" "'Yourself'? " She brightened out with derision. "What do you make of what I've done for American City?" It took her but a moment to say.
At length, towards afternoon, the rocky shore of the Isle of Monte-Cristo became visible. The Count's visage brightened as he saw it and a thrill of pleasure passed through him.
Dering had been sewing and listening with a smile, but now she glanced up, met Olive's eyes, and the smile brightened warmly, and there was something in it that made Olive's heart feel happy and glad that she had made her little speech, though she had hesitated before doing so. "I don't suppose anybody cares to hear about my disappointments," said Mrs. Dering, not looking as if she had any.
Snug fox-covers of rhododendron swept up toward the head of the coomb; and below, distant half a mile or more, cottages already showed a glimmer of gold on their thatches where the increasing splendor of day brightened them, and morning mists were raising jeweled arms. Then Joan passed into the ruin through that narrow opening which marks the door of it.
She expanded and brightened wonderfully, and Emily, imagining her a female Gilbert, was devoted to her, and thought her a marvel of learning, depth, goodness, and humility, the more striking for her tinge of grave pensiveness. 'Why, Albinia, said the colonel, 'didn't I hear that it was your handsome daughter who is married? 'Yes, poor Lucy was always called our pretty one.
Lecoq was about to place the paper in his breast-pocket, when the magistrate begged him to examine it a little further. He did so; and after a while his face suddenly brightened. Striking his forehead with his open palm, he cried: "I've found it!" An exclamation of incredulous surprise simultaneously escaped the magistrate, the governor, and the clerk.
She scrutinized them closely, however, for she had seen them in the cabin a little while before, and their conversation had been so amusing that she longed to make their acquaintance. Her face brightened expectantly at their approach, and, as they leaned over the railing, she studied them with growing interest.
And he began to think hard. All of a sudden his face brightened. "It's too easy," he said. "The wind's right; four or five of us have umbrellas Sam, you'll have to lend us this float. We've only to cut it from its moorings, and sail it across May we have it?" "Yes," I said, "but you're crazy to try it." "It's a case of sink or swim," said he. "Who's coming?"
"But Matilde " Bosio began in troubled tones. "And yet, perhaps, it is possible. Veronica would not be so cruel as to ruin them the money is nothing to her. And, after all, she will hardly feel the loss out of her immense fortune. Yes " his face brightened slowly with the rays of hope. "Yes it may be possible, after all. I had thought of going to her, but not of telling her the whole truth.
The boy never forgot his noble benefactress, and years afterward, when the great singer lay dying, the beloved friend who smoothed her pillow and cheered and brightened her last moments the rich, popular, and talented composer was no other than our little Pierre.
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