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Updated: September 1, 2025
"Your loving but distracted mother, "Edith Maitland." "Hillo, Dick! what's the matter?" exclaimed the Doctor, catching a glimpse of his assistant's drawn face and pallid lips as Maitland stared incredulously at the letter in his hand. "Nothing wrong, I hope. You look as though you had just seen a ghost!" "So I have; the ghosts of many things," answered Dick.
And then, while their attention was distracted, a bullet sang over their heads. And "Hands oop!" said in a guttural voice. A Treacherous Deed Harry Fleming had, of course, given up all hope of catching Graves by a direct pursuit by the time he accepted the offer of a ride in the motor truck that was carrying vegetables for the troops in quarters in London.
Never would he make peace, he said, with Spain without the full consent of the States and of England; the dearest object of his heart in making his peace with Rome having been to restore peace to his own distracted realm, to bring all Christians into one brotherhood, and to make a united attack upon the grand Turk a vision which the cheerful monarch hardly intended should ever go beyond the ivory gate of dreams, but which furnished substance enough for several well-rounded periods in the orations of De Morlans.
Before a 'confrere' she was certain he would not ask her dangerous questions. He understood that she wished to escape him. "Afraid of what?" he asked. "That I shall ask you questions about the past, concerning your life before we knew each other, and demand a confession that would wound my love?" "O Victor!" she cried, distracted. "What more cruel wound could you give me than these words?
"'All that's left of her, Davy. All that's left of her. "Davidson looked up at the sky; but there was to be seen no balloon from which she could have fallen on that spot. When he brought his distracted gaze down, it rested on a child holding on with a brown little paw to the pink satin gown. He had run out of the grass after her.
"No, Madam, my mother does not have that complaint," answered her son in precise English. Miss Campbell flashed a glance of black reproach at Nancy, as much as to say: "It's your turn now, ungrateful girl. Speak, for heaven's sake." Nancy exchanged a hopeless glance with the distracted lady. Then she remarked: "Mr. Ito, is your aunt married?" Yoritomo smiled broadly. "She is a widow," he replied.
And giving him the receipt, he took in a heap from his pockets ever full as many gold pieces as his hands could hold, and threw them into the cap of the poor fellow, who stuttered, distracted and dazzled by the fortune showered upon him, in the night of this fairy palace. Pozzonegro near Sartene. At last I can give you my news, dear M. Joyeuse.
You remember that in my last letter written, alas! in my beloved garden, which I may never see more I spoke with a certain restraint, even an approach to mystery. It was thus. At first, when that woman proposed to take me to the convent, I was a creature distracted. The fire of madness burned in my veins, and I could think of nothing save death or revenge.
Distracted by these thoughts, borne down by the weight of the sorrow which she dared not tell, tortured by a crowd of apprehensions whenever the old man was absent, and dreading alike his stay and his return, the colour forsook her cheek, her eye grew dim, and her heart was oppressed and heavy.
Noor ad Deen took the letter, and departed with the little money he had about him when Sangiar gave him his purse; and the fair Persian, distracted with grief at his departure, retired to one of the sofas, and wept bitterly.
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