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She lay back in the cushions, her head a little bent, her hands interlaced with a perfect imitation of quietude. The dull satin of her slender foot was the only motion about her, but the long, slow rise and fall of her breath was just too deep-drawn for repose. He looked down upon her from his height.
And silence fell upon the room, a silence in which Harvey could hear a deep-drawn breath and the rustle of silk. He was surprised by a voice in quite a new tone, softly melodious. 'You give me up very easily. 'Not more easily than you give up your music. 'There's a difference. Do you remember what we were saying, last Wednesday, about simplicity of living? 'Last Wednesday? It seems a month ago.
Under the illusion she fancied herself picking up bones belonging to his skeleton, which she handled with tender reverence, and when there was an imaginary mound of them formed she placed, with deep-drawn sighs and tears and genuflections, a cross above them. Under the influence of haschish everything looked rosy and gayety prevailed. The subject was a young girl, very fond of the drama.
The slaves were coming back into the court, and she called out a friendly word or two, which were answered with equal friendliness, for the Gaulish lady, who never overlooked even the humblest, was dear to them all. She took in the night-air with deep-drawn breaths, and looked up contentedly at the moon, for she was well content with herself.
He yielded passively, made no response of his own beyond a deep-drawn breath or two. A moment later when she had released him and risen to her feet, he rose too. "Would Novelli be procurable?" he asked. "Could he be engaged regularly, as an accompanist for you and so on?" She looked at him rather oddly. "Why, I don't need him," she said, "as long as I am just playing.
Once or twice she sobbed convulsively, and then she lay quite still, trying with all her might to die there, on his arm, before any one came to disturb her. It seemed very simple, just to stop living and stay with him for ever. Again she heard a sound of deep-drawn breath but it was close to her now, and her own arm moved with it on his chest the dead man had moved, he had sighed.
Betty in her alarming way, staring, as if of frighted importance; twice with me in half an hour; called down in haste by Shorey the last time; leaving me with still more meaning in her looks and gestures yet possibly nothing in all this worthy of my apprehensions Here again comes the creature, with her deep-drawn affected sighs, and her O dear's! O dear's!
No, he must risk it, and at once, though he would rather have faced a battery of guns. The door fortunately was ajar. Geoffrey opened it with his foot, entered, and with his foot pushed it to again. Suddenly he remembered that he had never been in the room, and did not know which bed belonged to Beatrice. He walked to the nearest; a deep-drawn breath told him that it was the wrong one.
'It's my banner of love that I'm going to carry for my Captain. It means I've got to love even you. Nancy's red lips pouted. 'I don't want you to love me, she said. 'I've got to do it. 'How are you going to do it? 'I'm I'm not quite sure. I'm never going to be angry with you. And it's very hard Here a deep-drawn sigh broke from him.
"You have hurt me sadly, my friend!" said Isabelle at last, with a deep-drawn sigh. "I had such perfect confidence in your delicacy and respect. The frank, unreserved avowal of my love for you ought to have been enough, and have shown you clearly, by its very openness, that I trusted you entirely.
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