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Their eyes rested for a moment, wide in horror, upon the dead body of Salensus Oll, upon the blood that crimsoned the floor, upon the corpses of the nobles who had fallen thick before the throne, upon me, and upon the battling warriors at the other door.
"You should know more than any one else in Chaudiere. The secrets of his breast might well be bared to you." She started and crimsoned. Before her eyes there came a mist obscuring the Seigneur, and for an instant shutting out the world. The secrets of his breast what did he mean? Did he know that on Monsieur's breast was the red scar which...
For her part, she was busy and could not spare time to gossip. At that she stepped back and kicked the door shut with a slam that set the whole side of the shack shivering. At that moment Andrew wondered what he would have done when he lived in Martindale if he had been treated in such a manner. He would have crimsoned to the eyes, no doubt, and fled from the virago.
"The monarch crimsoned with anger, as he turned to Yu Chan, who had already regained his composure, and sat with crossed arms, smiling scornfully at his accuser, and then asked: "'Hast thou so misused thy power? Speak! "'How can'st thou doubt me, knowing my great descent? cried Yu Chan, bitterly. 'Even at thy bidding I will not answer a question which casts so much shame upon me.
Ethelyn had seen him as he came from the depot in Captain Markham's carriage, and her cheek had crimsoned, and then grown pale at sight of the ancient-looking hair trunk swinging behind the carriage, all unconscious of the indignation it was exciting, or of the vast difference between itself and the two huge Saratoga trunks standing in Aunt Barbara Bigelow's upper hall, and looking so clean and nice in their fresh coverings.
A slight flush crimsoned Kasana's cheeks, her eyes sparkled with a light that startled Ephraim and, regardless of her father or her guest, she darted past the pond, across paths and flower-beds, to a grassy bank beside the wall, whence she gazed eagerly toward the road and the armed host which soon marched by. Hosea, in full armor, headed his men.
"Poor dear boy, I never suspected you of being there, or I should not have sung that mournful air." I started and looked up; and from what I know not, but she suddenly crimsoned to her very forehead, while she added in a less assured tone, "I hope, Mr. O'Malley, that you are much better; and I trust there is no imprudence in your being here."
"Have you got your eye on such a man?" he asked, assuring himself that he knew of no man who would fill the requirements she had named. "I don't mind telling you that I have," she returned, looking straight at him. It suddenly burst upon him. His face crimsoned. He felt like bolting. But he managed to grin, though she could see that the grin was forced.
The red half-sunken sun shed a solemn splendour on the everyday houses, and crimsoned the windows of Dempster's projecting upper storey. Suddenly a loud murmur arose and spread along the stream of church-goers, and one group after another paused and looked backward.
As she lay encircled in his arms, a burning blush crimsoned her cheeks. She turned away her face, and feebly tried to loosen herself from him. Nobili only pressed her closer. He would not let her go. "Do not turn from me, Enrica," he softly murmured. "Would you rob me of the rapture of my first embrace?" There was a passionate tremor in his voice that re vibrated within her from head to foot.
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