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She tottered almost as if she would fall, and Sir Andrew, quickly recovering himself, and crumpling in his hand the tiny note he had been reading, was only apparently, just in time to support her. "You are ill, Lady Blakeney?" he asked with much concern, "Let me . . ." "No, no, nothing " she interrupted quickly. "A chair quick."
Dealing with the combined action of the French and British in this critical period a French military writer says: "The French armies of the center that is to say, the Third and Fourth Armies had as their mission the duty of attacking the German army in Belgian Luxembourg, of attempting to put it to flight and of crumpling it up against the left flank of the German main body at the north.
"You must; I haven't the right to stay." Steve stood up, crumpling the letter in his hand. "You mean because of what I said that time?" "Partly; partly because I find myself disapproving of your transactions." "They are a safe gamble," he began, vehemently. "Are they? I doubt it. Don't ask me to stay. I want to remain poised and content.
If a lily could hold up her petals out of the dust she might do it in the same fashion as Ellen held her skirts, with no coarse clutching nor crumpling, not immodestly, but rather with disclosures of modesty itself. Ellen's wonderful daintiness was one of her chief charms.
Barbee held the bank-note in his left hand; slowly his calloused fingers closed tightly about it, crumpling it, clutching it as though they would never release it. And then slowly the fingers opened so that the wrinkled bit of paper lay in his palm under his eyes. Barbee ran his tongue back and forth between his dry lips.
I could hear confusedly the sound of her footsteps, the rustling of her gown, or the crumpling of the leaves of her book as she turned over the pages. I sometimes fancied I heard her breathe. Instinctively I placed my writing-table on which my lamp stood near the door, for I felt less lonely when I heard these sounds of life around me.
Kathinka saw the deadly pallor that spread over his countenance, watched his quivering lip and darkening brow. He read to the end, and crumpling the letter in his hand, he threw himself upon the sofa in a paroxysm of grief. The girl who had never before seen her father so affected became seriously alarmed. "What is it, father? What does he write?" she asked.
The card was crumpling between the long, bony fingers. The American realized that a forbidden topic had been touched upon. "He has fought and he has slain," he thought as quick as a flash, "He is no butcher, no gardener, no cobbler. That's certain!" "Tell us, Uncle Caspar, what you said to the conductor," cried the young lady, nervously.
The next instant, however, she recovered her poise, and crumpling the telegram into a ball she addressed the maid composedly. "There's no answer," she said. Adding: "Has anyone arrived yet?" "Mrs. Seymour is here, miss. And" listening "I think Lord St. John must have arrived." Nan turned to Mallory. "Then we'd better go, Peter. Come along."
Then, with berserker fury, crumpling her Sentinel into a ball, she venomously hurled it to the depths of a waste basket and religiously rubbed the feel of it from her fingers. As she had not even glanced at the column headed "Births, Deaths, Marriages," it will be seen that her agitation was real. And surely a more discerning sympathy might have been looked for from the seasoned Martin Jaffry.
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