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And Miss Abbott did likewise. Night after night did Lilia curse this false friend, who had agreed with her that the marriage would "do," and that the Herritons would come round to it, and then, at the first hint of opposition, had fled back to England shrieking and distraught. Miss Abbott headed the long list of those who should never be written to, and who should never be forgiven.
May the ineffable peace which you bring my aching heart return a thousand-fold into your own. Farewell. Ragobah may return at any moment. Let us not needlessly imperil your safety. Once more good-bye. The dew-drop now may freely fall into the shining sea." Poor distraught child! She had tried to adopt her lover's religion without abandoning her own. I bent over and kissed her.
There was more of this pleading and emotional badgering until finally out of sheer exhaustion Angela said yes. Eugene's nerves were worn to a thread by the encounter. He was pale, exhausted, distraught. Many scenes like this, he thought, would set him crazy; and still he had to go through a world of petting and love-making even now. It was not easy to bring her back to her normal self.
He laughed as we pitched into a thousand foot blow-out that red man laughed beneath his inflated hood! "Look!" he said. "We must clear those refugees with a high lift." The Mark Boat was below and a little to the sou'west of us, fluctuating in the centre of her distraught galaxy. The air was thick with moving lights at every level.
If I were late or absence detained me from thy sight, Then jealous rage distraught thy heart, thine eyes with tears were bright. But now that thou hast turned from me, I come thy face to greet, And thou biddest me begone, and pass no longer through thy street. Thou biddest me look on thee no more, nor even dare to write The letter or the billet-doux, that caused thee once delight.
That distraught soul, for all her determination and fighting capacity, was enduring for the second time in her life the fires of hell. To think that in spite of all her work, her dreams, this recent effort to bring about peace and happiness, perhaps at the expense of her own life, she was compelled to witness a scene like this. Eugene was trying to get free. He was obviously determined to do so.
Arbuton had asked her; she was distraught with their recurrence, as they teased about her like angry bees, and one now and then settled, and stung and stung.
All attempts to restore the earlier harmony of the visit failed, for the conversation languished and Miss Whichello was silent and distraught. The young men shortly took their leave, and the old lady seemed glad to be rid of them. Outside, George and Cargrim separated, as neither was anxious for the other's company.
Some deep inward consciousness restrained her and the words of Rachel, that just now rang in her ears. How tall and sweet and strange withal she was. He stood for a moment electrified. She was a child no longer. Then she found her tongue, though there was a distraught expression in her face as if she could cry. "Oh, Andrew, it is a great relief to greet thee, but there is not a moment to lose.
At the mention of revelations Smith's soul took a turn, like a ball on its axis; the plain speech that he had been using about business and stores and accounts changed into phraseology of a Scriptural cast, and the shrewd glance of his blue eye into a more distraught and distant look.
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