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These moorland breezes how redolent, how murmurous of what had been! In a few moments Amanda closed her eyes, the wind caressing her into peacefulness and singing her to slumber. It was the hour before dawn the dark hour when minutes walk with leaden feet and the departing vapours of night lay chilliest finger on the sick and dying, and on those who watch at their side.
Here they faced Captain Carg, whom Patsy afterward declared was the tallest, thinnest, chilliest man she had ever encountered. His hair was grizzled and hung low on his neck; his chin was very long and ended in a point; his nose was broad, with sensitive nostrils that marked every breath he drew.
"I say, Dev," was his first contribution to the conversation, "d' you remember it was at a dock that you and I first met? It was night, blacker than Tophet, and raining, and you came ashore wet as a rag. You were the lonesomest, chilliest, most forlorn little tike I ever saw; but, by the eternal, you were trying not to cry!" "Lonesome? I rather think so!" I echoed with conviction.
It was up to me to take the job on those terms or leave it and I took it on. I did think Egypt might be held to be outside this tacit covenant, but when I asked first, directly, for the Indian Brigade; secondly, for the Brigade or even for one Gurkha Battalion, I only got that chilliest of refusals silence. Since then, there has been some change in his attitude.
Now at least the awful personage would know that she was clever, and loved to learn. But Mrs. Gurley smiled the chilliest thinkable smile of acknowledgment, and did not reply a word. She escorted the other to the front door, and held it open for them to pass out.
"Oh, I'm in no particular hurry." Quentin dressed calmly. The burglar began whistling softly. "Are you ready?" asked Philip, putting on his overcoat and hat. "I haven't got me overcoat on yet," replied the burglar, suggestively. Quentin saw he was dressed in the chilliest of rags. He opened a closet door and threw him a long coat. "Ah, here is your coat.
Clair," she said, in her very chilliest tone. "I asked to see Maimie," said Ranald, looking at her with cool, steady eyes. "I must say, Mr. Macdonald, that after your conduct to my brother yesterday, I am surprised you should have the assurance to enter his house." "I would prefer not discussing office matters with you," said Ranald, politely, and with a suspicion of a smile.
I can go nowhere at all where my future wife will not be received on exactly the same terms that I am. 'Then you had bettor go, said Lady Le Breton, in her chilliest manner. 'Ronald, do me the favour to ring ihe bell for a cab for your brother Ernest. 'I shall walk, thank you, mother, said Ernest quietly. 'Good morning, dear Ronald. Ronald rose solemnly and opened the door for him.
There was more "life" to be seen in an English hotel in a minute than one could see in the Hotel Tortoni in a month. As there were no theatres or concerts to go to and nothing else to do, we went to bed in the chilliest bedrooms that I had ever been in up to that time.
'Now I understand Aunt Pattie's tales of fires at Sorrento in August, said Eleanor, crouching over the hearth. 'This blazing Italy can touch you when she likes with the chilliest fingers. Poor peasants! are their hearts lighter to-night? The rain was fierce, but mercifully there was no hail. Down below they say the harvest is over. Here they begin next week.
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