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"Just think what rapture it will be when you are permitted to see the light again after so long a period of darkness!" "When " repeated Hermon, his head drooping as he spoke. "It must, it must be so!" rang with confident assurance from Thyone's lips.
He gave one glance at the bright, handsome face, and looked at the moist eyes; then he went away with sad, drooping head. He realized for the first time, poor old man, how deep his highness had crept into his heart. The prince glanced at the clock. He had an engagement soon but not for an hour yet, so he picked up the newspapers containing the latest war rumors.
And well he might, for there hung at the window a man or the body of one his hands convulsively grasping the magnetized rod, the distorted face pressed against the glass, the lack-lustre eyes wide open, the jaw drooping. In that ghastly visage I recognized the features of Giuseppe Griscelli! "Is he dead, doctor?" asked Mr. Fortescue.
She sat on the deck of the apparently motionless turbine and thought gleefully of past journeys, now for ever done with; of the grand ducal train, of herself drooping inside it as wearily as the inevitable bouquets drooping on the tables, of the crowds of starers on every platform, of the bowing officials wherever your eye chanced to turn.
I wish I could take a photograph as he stands at the door, with the steady eyes of a capable man of affairs, but the dress of a houri; about his loins he has twisted a piece of white cotton; a broad garland of drooping ferns passes over his forehead, crosses at the back of his head, and coming forward round his neck is fastened in a knot of greenery on his breast.
Magda's slight little figure sank to the ground, drooping slowly like a storm-bent snowdrop, and lay still. Lady Arabella sat up with a jerk. "Good gracious! The child's a born dancer! Lydia Tchinova must see her. She'll have to train. Poor Hugh!" She chuckled enjoyably. "This will be the last straw! He'll be compelled to invent a new penance." "You're very trying, Magda.
She thought that she saw him there quite plainly standing quiet and indifferent. She was so accustomed to his appearance the carefulness of his dress, the grave eyes, and the thin, drooping moustache that her mind by habit filled in these details which she did not in reality see; nor did she see the look of agonised prayer that came and went across the habitual reserve of his face.
The foundation of the scheme was a costly "suite", upholstered in palish silk brocade, the separate pieces standing at fixed intervals apart on a gorgeous Axminster carpet. When Deb entered the room, Mr Goldsworthy was bending over the central sofa, excited and talking loudly. Miss Goldsworthy and Mary stood by, mute and drooping; Ruby looked on irresponsibly, with joy in her eye.
They were dressed like the youth who had answered the door of the prince's apartment, and they were speaking softly with many gestures and evidently in some perplexity. The drooping spirits of St. George soared to Heaven as he hastened to them.
Ten days to four shirts is unpardonable. You can't earn your salt at that." The young woman made no reply to this, but stood with her eyes drooping to the floor, and her hands leaning hard upon the counter to support herself. Berlaps then commenced examining the shirts. The result of this examination seemed to soften him a little.
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