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I haven't, really; but we must escape somehow." Spencer, who had salved his conscience by endeavoring to read a technical letter on mining affairs, would be less than human if he did not lift his eyes then. It is odd how the sense of hearing, when left to its unfettered play by the absence of the disturbing influence of facial expression, can discriminate in its analysis of the subtler emotions.
The next day was very wet too wet to go out, and far too wet to think of disturbing a Sand-fairy so sensitive to water that he still, after thousands of years, felt the pain of once having had his left whisker wetted. It was a long day, and it was not till the afternoon that all the children suddenly decided to write letters to their mother.
I felt no disturbing curiosity concerning its contents; I was not annoyed at the want of the key; it was only that, like a nursery rhyme that keeps repeating itself over and over in the half-sleeping brain, this chest kept rising before me till I was out of patience with its intrusiveness. It brought me wide awake at last; and I thought, as I could not sleep, I would have a search for the key.
It was hard, indeed, to think of her as in any sense related to them, at all suggestive of them. An Ann radiating life rather than sorrowing for it was an Ann she did not know just what to do with. And there was something disturbing in that rich glow of happiness. She did not believe that Ann's something somewhere could be stenography.
'To a dear sister I owe that still more exquisite and subtle comradeship which can only exist between man and woman, but from which the more disturbing elements of sex must be absent. And here, let me also thank God that I was brought up in quite a garden of good sisters. 'To Messrs.
Jeeves emerged in a brown dressing-gown. "Sir?" "Deuced sorry to wake you up, Jeeves, and what not, but all sorts of dashed disturbing things have been happening." "I was not asleep. It is my practice, on retiring, to read a few pages of some instructive book." "That's good!
Then an angelic smile crossed her face, and her eyelids dropped once more. On the morrow, when the Abbe and Monsieur Rambaud made their appearance, Helene gave way to a shrug of impatience. They were now a disturbing element in her happy nest. As they went on questioning her, shaking with fear lest they might receive bad tidings, she had the cruelty to reply that Jeanne was no better.
Maxwell bowed as he neared the table, then stopped beside it, without offering his hand. "I fear I may be disturbing you," he said, with simple but cold courtesy. "The fact is I have come down here on an urgent matter, which may perhaps be my excuse. Could you give me twenty minutes, in my room?" "By all means," said Tressady.
It was an odd sort of tap one only a single tap, as if some one demanded admittance, and wished to awaken his attention with the least possible chance of disturbing any one else. "Come in," said Charles, for he knew he had not fastened his door; "come in." There was no reply, but after a moment's pause, the same sort of low tap came again.
Cytherea's disturbing charm was real, as definite as Fanny's quiet actuality. However, he wasn't interested in an abstract arraignment of life, but intent only on the truth about himself. Lee wanted to discharge fully his duty to existence in the more inglorious phrase, he didn't want to make a fool of himself and yet it was growing more difficult all the while to distinguish folly from sense.
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