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Wherefore, be wise, and be as strangers to each other." Julian and Alice exchanged glances as her father turned from them, and lifting a lamp which stood in the entrance-hall, led the way to the interior apartment. There was little of consolation in this exchange of looks; for the sadness of Alice's glance was mingled with fear, and that of Julian clouded by an anxious sense of doubt.
For my part, I could not comprehend Paula's conduct, not being able to imagine why she should dare so much for her little old black book I, who would have exchanged all my books for a new doll; but I would have suffered anything to help her now.
When they were exchanged, in June, 1781, they were not allowed even to touch at Charleston, but were sent to Philadelphia, whither their families had been banished when the prisoners were taken to the Sandwich. More than a thousand persons were thus exiled, and husbands and wives, fathers and children, first met in a distant State after a separation of ten months.
Robin and Innocent exchanged surprised glances, but had no time to make any comment as old Hugo just then drove up and, throwing the reins to his nephew, alighted. "Aren't you very late, Dad?" said Innocent then, going to meet him "I was beginning to be quite anxious!" "Were you? Poor little one! I'm all right!
The members exchanged glances the Gov'nor was living up to their expectations of him. "That accomplished, I propose," the Governor declared dramatically, "to take nitrogen from the air and sell it to the government!" He looked triumphantly into the intent upturned faces into which had crept a look of blankness.
Then, the first moment of stupor over, she began to feel less afraid; hideous as was this woman, it was at least some one to speak to; she exclaimed, therefore, in an agitated voice: "Where is M. Baleinier?" The two women looked at each other, exchanged a leer of mutual intelligence, but did not answer. "I ask you, madame," resumed Adrienne, "where is M. Baleinier, who brought me hither?
In the hurried words that they exchanged there was a more solid welding of their renewed friendship than the telephone could have accomplished for them in many interviews, and they parted at the end of the allotted five minutes, each with a growing faith in the mercies of that Providence which had led them to a nobler comradeship.
"Let us respect ancient customs," interrupted Mefres. "Yes, let them put pebbles into the pitcher," decided the pharaoh. "My heart is pure and my plans are unbending." Holy Mefres and Herhor exchanged glances. The overseer of the labyrinth and two generals went around the benches and gave a white pebble and a black one to each delegate.
After he had exchanged salutations with the miners in his usual hearty fashion, and accepted their invitation to drink, Cy Parker, with a certain affected carelessness which did not, however, conceal a singular hesitation in his speech, began:
Burns and King exchanged glances more than once as the car flew past other travellers, and the good lady, talking happily with Ellen or absorbed in some far-reaching view, took no note of the fact that she was annihilating space with a smooth swiftness comparable only to the flight of some big, strong-winged bird. "Over halfway there, and plenty of time for lunch," Burns announced.
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