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But the picture seemed to say it." There was a most satisfactory absence of Gainsborough about all this. "Then I go into the Long Gallery! It's no better there!" Her hands were flung out despairingly. "You seemed to have settled down so well," murmured Mina. "Settled down! What was there to do? Oh, you know I hadn't! I can't bear it, Mina, and I won't. Isn't it hard?
One had to presuppose Addie Tristram, and turns of fortune or of chance wayward as Addie herself and to reckon with the same blood, now in young and living veins. "I can't bear it," whispered Mina. "He'll expect you to be calm and composed," Neeld reminded her. "Then give me a cigarette," she implored despairingly. "I am not a smoker," said Mr Neeld.
But you see!” The captain flung wide his hands again despairingly, indicating the bare wooden walls of the passage. “Well, that’s not my business,” grinned the doctor. “I have only told you the answer of medical science to your question as to possible treatment. As for the rest, to my regret—”
I have no money nothin' nothin' an' if there's not better decreed for me, I'll be starved yet an' is it any wondh'er? to be robbin' me the way you're doin'!" His wife clasped her hands and looked up towards heaven in silence, and Connor, shaking his head despairingly, passed out to join Flanagan at his labor, with whom he had not spoken that day.
Already I sense the hurt of these latter years the shattered expectations, the incessant disappointments! You who have stared unblinkingly into the face of the sun, robbed in your twilight of even a candle-flame. But, Father?" Grimly, despairingly, but with unfaltering persistence Youth fighting with its last gasp for the rights of its Youth she lifted her haggard little face to his.
Yard by yard Thor worked his way upward, snarling at the frantic pack, defying the man-smell, the strange thunder, the burning lightning even death itself, and five hundred yards below Langdon cursed despairingly as the dogs hung so close he could not fire. Up to the very sky-line the blood-thirsting pack shielded Thor. He disappeared over the summit. The dogs followed.
In one of his nightly excursions the swimmer was drowned in a storm, and Hero, after hearing of Leander's death, despairingly threw herself into the sea to share his sad fate. "There is the height from which Hero cast herself," said an official, "and this is the place where Lord Byron, in emulation of Leander, performed the same difficult feat of swimming the channel."
He could have flown to the end of the universe in this Ballade; but, at last, his heart cracking, head bursting, face livid, overtaken by the Footsteps of the Missing, he smashed both fists upon the keys and fell forward despairingly.... ... The gigantic, noseless negro, the grand vizier himself, sternly regarded the prince, who stood, torch in hand, near the shattered pianoforte. The dumb spoke:
"If you don't believe I'm clean, look at the towel!" he said, holding it up. "Oh, my heart!" cried his mother, throwing up her hands. "I declare there's but one creature in all God's world that cares nothing for cleanliness! Even a pig has some manners if given half a chance, but boys!" She seized the grimy towel and held it up despairingly for Father Van Hove to see.
The ignorant heathen would not worship the holy images, would not use holy water, would not kneel before the holy Sacrament, would not do this, that, and the other: and, not content with this series of negations, she actually presumed to reason about them! "What dost thou believe?" despairingly demanded Sister Eularia at last. "I believe in God," said Beatrice gravely.
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