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Isabel disengaged herself from Miss Belcher's arms and, drawing off her ring, handed it to her lover. Their eyes met, and hers were smiling bravely: but they brimmed on a sudden as the tears sprang into his. And now I felt that there was strong hope for him. Thus I came to be present at their wedding. Indeed, the prisoner claimed so much of Mr.
"Do you know," she said, "to-night it is stewed carrots and nut tart for supper. Suppose we go in and take our places," her sidelong, tragic stare accusing the Professor and me the while. I followed them across the lawn and up the steps. Frau Godowska was murmuring, "Such a wonderful, beloved man"; with her disengaged hand Fraulein Sonia was arranging the sweet pea "garniture."
He accepted this alms, and was rejoiced that he was faithful to the last to poverty, which he called his dame and his mistress; then raising his hands to heaven, he gave glory to our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being disengaged and free from everything, he was about to go to Him.
"I brought you a few flowers, Jewel," he said, while she pressed his disengaged hand against her cheek. "They're the most lovely ones I ever saw," she returned with conviction. "They make me happy just to look at them." "Well, Jewel," said the doctor, "I hear you've been making up for lost sleep in great shape."
He led her to the window-seat and gently disengaged her hands from his shoulders and took one of them and held it between his own. He did not speak, for his was a rare intuition; and gradually her hand ceased to tremble, and the uncontrollable sobs that shook her became less frequent. "Why did you come? Why did you come?" she cried. "To see you, Honora." "But you might have warned me."
But presently one fact disengaged itself from a mist of doubts and misgivings, hopes and terrors. She and Peter were engaged to be married! What if vows and protestations, plans and confidences were still all to come, what if the very first kiss was still to come? The essential thing remained; they were engaged, the question was settled at last. Peter was not, at this time, quite the ideal lover.
Long disengaged in mind and heart from all things on earth, she was now so detached even from the consolations of heaven, so singly centred in God alone, that she could rejoice in her spiritual poverty, and thank the Lord for seeming to have withdrawn, the favours which in her humility, she considered exposed to defilement in passing through her heart.
I shall not ask poor Lesbia to be one; it would be too trying for her, and I know you will not care about it; but you must come for a week, and see all my pretty things, and help poor mamma, for she has only Jocelyn: so remember you are to keep yourself disengaged the week after Easter.
They were choking and could not speak. At length the old man stammered: "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: "But, father, now that I am quite well, it seems to me that I might see her." "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." "Father!" "What?" "Why not to-day?" "Well, to-day then.
One evening, finding himself unexpectedly disengaged, he asked Vyse to dine; it had occurred to him that, in the course of an after-dinner chat, he might delicately hint his feeling that the work he had offered his friend was unworthy so accomplished a hand. Vyse surprised him by a momentary hesitation. "I may not have time to dress." Betton stared. "What's the odds?
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