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Then, as he saw the chalk-white bodies, the dead and flabby whiteness of their faces from which red eyes stared, he revised his estimate; here was nothing human. The pistol was in his hand, but as yet he had not fired. Only the terror in the girl's voice had told him that these were enemies; he waited for a closer view or for some direct attack, and needed to wait but a moment.
But the maniacal light in Cortlandt's eyes, and Anthony's chalk-white, frozen countenance soon showed them the truth. Some one gasped, another laughed hysterically, the sound breaking in his throat. Cortlandt turned away gloatingly. Kirk was the last to recover his powers, but when they did revive they came with a prodigious rush.
The dead man was lifted up; they laid him on a sofa in a corner of the room, and the nearest gasjets were put out. Madame Virginie was still standing up; her face was chalk-white, and she held her little soft hand pressed against her breast. They carried him right past the buffet.
I remember her chalk-white face as she met me at the door upon my return home one night. She nearly drove the color out of my own cheeks for I thought surely that something had happened to the boy. But it wasn't that; she had heard that the baby on the first floor was ill and had gone down there to see if there was anything she might do for it.
He answered decisively: "I've the right to hear from Miss Verney herself what she said to you this afternoon, and I'm going to hear it. That's final!" Olive was now chalk-white with rage. Every nerve of her body was quivering, but by a supreme effort she regained control over her words. "You're insulting me!" she returned.
"I wonder if you could oblige me, Auntie, with a few pounds for a couple of days? Say ten or fifteen? Just to carry me on till my money-ship comes in." Auntie, working on her tight gloves, looked at him; his tone was carefully careless, but his face, which she had called chalk-white, was surely whiter yet. His question being asked, his lips still moved.
The chalk-white and shaking prisoner stood up, was sentenced and removed, and, the business of the day being over, the court adjourned.
The ghostly train and the picturesque mediæval monument, close to which we paused and clustered to deposit the dead girl in her early resting-place, formed a striking picture that haunted me for a long time, and which the smell and sight of the chalk-white narcissus blossom invariably recalls to me.
Deanie Deanie Deanie !" wailed Mandy. Johnnie was on her knees beside the child, feeling her over with tremulous hands. Her face was bleached chalk-white, and her eyes stared fearfully at the motionless lips of the little one, from which that scarlet stream trickled; but she set her own lips silently. "Thar right thar in the side," groaned Mandy.
Then, raising his eyes and looking at her squarely, he said what he had come to say, "I have I have just been to see Dalton, Becky." A wave of red washed over her neck, touched her chin, her cheeks. "I don't see what that has to do with me." "It has a great deal to do with you. I told him you were going to marry me." The wave receded. She was chalk-white. "Randy, how dared you do such a thing?"
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