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"It seemed indeed as if not Eos, but her faint reflection in the western horizon, was tinting the sky, when joy or shame sent the colour to her cheeks, But when wrath took possession of her and ere the King's return this often happened she could look as if she were lifeless, like a marble statue, with lips as colourless as those of a corpse.
And then outside the café the comparative stillness of the early morning was punctured by faint, uncertain cries that seemed mere fireflies of sound, some growing louder, some fainter, waxing and waning amid the rumble of milk wagons and infrequent cars.
But as faint as the light wuz, for the eye of love is keen, I missed my beloved pardner's head from the opposite pillow, and I riz up in wild agitation and thinkses I, "Has rapine took place here; has Josiah Allen been abducted away from me? Is he a kidnapped Josiah?"
"Silence! silence!" commanded the excited Professor in a hoarse whisper; then, turning enthusiastically to the subject "Go on, young man! Go on! 'Thy head was fair with flaxen hair " "My head was fair With flaxen hair, And fragrant breezes, faint and rare, And, warm with drouth From out the south, Blew all my curls across my mouth."
He did not answer his head sank lower he hesitated for an instant then signed his name in faint, trembling characters, at the end of the letter. She drew it away from him gently. A few tear-drops lay on the paper. As she dried them with her handkerchief she looked at her brother. "They are the last he shall ever shed, Louis; you and I will take care of that!"
Everywhere he found traces of it, and when, shortly before noon, exhausted and faint from hunger, he reached a village in the cornlands watered by the Seti-canal, he debated whether to sell his gold armlet, obtain more strengthening food, and receive some silver and copper in change.
To-day I am so unwell that I have sent for a doctor.” Again he writes: “It likewise happens, not seldom, that I am so dead beat when I come off the stage, that they lay me down on a sofa after I have been washed and dressed, and I lie there extremely faint for a quarter of an hour.
"What WERE your reasons for waiting?" Anna did not immediately answer. Her step-son's eyes were on her face, and under his gaze she felt a faint disquietude. "I was feeling my way...I wanted to be absolutely sure..." "Absolutely sure of what?" She delayed again for a just perceptible instant. "Why, simply of OUR side of the case."
In a moment I caught the sound. It was exceedingly faint, like the distant thrumming of a zither. Only it was a single note, which did not rise and fall, although there seemed a continual variation in its volume. Unexpectedly the other sounds came again, down under the table. This time we remained in our seats and simply listened.
Thompson did not miss the faint note of commiseration in the half-breed's voice. It stung him a little, nearly made him disregard the spirit of abnegation he had been taught was a Christian's duty in his Master's service. He closed his lips on an impulsive protest against that barren unlovely spot, and stiffened his shoulders.
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