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"You said the people were unhappy?" For a moment she was silent still. "It must have seemed strange to you," she said abruptly. "It did. And yet " "It was an impulse." "Well?" "That is all." She looked at him with a face of hesitation. She spoke with an effort. "You forget," she said, drawing a deep breath. "What?" "The people " "Do you mean ?" "You forget the people." He looked interrogative.
I approached the jeweller, who was not quite dead, and at the sound of my footsteps and the creaking of the floor, he opened his eyes, fixed them on me with an anxious and inquiring gaze, moved his lips as though trying to speak, then, overcome by the effort, fell back and expired.
Putting out one stiff, aching arm, she feebly drew her little sister to her and kissed her. Margery was delighted, for she had really thought Bella was dead, and she hugged her in an ecstasy of relief. "Can't you get up?" she asked. "Oh, do get up, Bella." Bella made an effort but she was too exhausted, and falling back again, she, for the first time, lost consciousness.
No amount of pressure will condense steam to water unless the heat is removed. It fights desperately against condensation, growing hot with the effort, and it maintains its resilience for years at any point of pressure short of the final surrender that gives up to become liquid.
I shall feel it as an injustice, if, after having struggled through all the difficulties of the voyage, another shall finish the remainder almost without an effort, and yet reap the honour of completing what I have begun." Alexander yielded to this just request, and about the end of the year Nearchus rejoined his fleet.
Rachel made an imperious gesture of silence, and was obeyed so far as voice went, but long-drawn sighs and shakes of the head continued to impress on her the aunt's hopelessness, throughout the endeavours to change the position, the moistening of the lips, the attempts at relief in answer to the choked effort to cough, the weary, faint moan, the increasing faintness and exhaustion.
Yet it was astonishing what an icy barrier still remained between us two, and how perfectly I managed, without a conscious effort, to set a limit to his approaches, even while treating him with apparent courtesy and confidence. Something in his eye, his manner, had become extremely unpleasant to me since our social relations had been resumed.
By another great effort, she checked the expression of her feelings, and asked: "And what does your aunt say to all this?" "Oh, I have said nothing to her yet. It would only trouble her; and if I can get nothing else to do, I must keep the children till the `harvest-play' comes. That won't be so very long now."
Annie has been longing to go, and I told her yesterday I would go with her, and we can still get there before the cold weather." The doctor made one last effort to hold to his original intention: "Pearl, I cannot let you bind yourself to me until I am well again. I am holding my own, Dr. Brander says. He thought the election would pull me down, but it didn't. My case is a hopeful one.
My hands clinched hard around the gun-barrel for a swing, while I braced my body for a leap forward, yet held back from such desperate action, making hazard of one more effort to draw him out.
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